On day 2 of the Festival, we have so many #ForestofReading Red Maple nominees joining us for our “rock concert” for reading! We can’t wait! Melanie Florence Suri Rosen Gordon korman Andrew Varga 🦊 Kevin Sands 🦊 Erin Bow Nadia Shammas 🇵🇸 @ GDC

There’s nothing more powerful than a story to connect us, to help us understand each other, and to build empathy.

Power of Story: Diverse Books for All Readers. 🔗 schol.ca/x/aL

THE FORT by Gordon korman
SIMON SORT OF SAYS by Erin Bow

CS Lewis said that there's no book worth reading at 10 that is not even more worth reading at 50. Children's books are real books and belong on our prize lists.

(Also I'm so excited at the Leacock Longlist for SIMON!)

Fireflies at Ochanomizu, by Kobayashi Kiyochika, ca. 1880

#ukiyoe

“In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.'

- Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918)

This entire festival is worth checking out!

Hey hive mind. For art/collage purposes, I am looking for an easy way to make text look like I clipped it from a newspaper. Maybe a MS Word template? Recommendations?

Blue and yellow in my garden today — daffodils and squill. It’s early spring here, with tulips and magnolia still a week or two away.

everything alex writes makes me want to pick up a sword but personally speaking as someone bereft of it girl looks or energy, this made me feel seen in such an important way, channeled a lot of rage i've been feeling for a while

I had a wonderful time at the Imagination Festival in Quebec City, where I had never been. I did some school visits, saw some festival events, and hung out at the Morrin Centre to catch up on work. Look at this library

I had a wonderful time at the Imagination Festival in Quebec City, where I had never been. I did some school visits, saw some festival events, and hung out at the Morrin Centre to catch up on work. Look at this library

I spent my first 40 min session writing poems by hand — I have been saving up prompts and ideas. My second session I typed things up. One poem might even be good!

I took this video of the next writer working.

Yesterday I got to do the coolest thing. Aas part of the Imagination Festival at Morrin Centre, writers got to sit in a window while our writing was projected on the glass wall of la Maison de la littérature.

Here I am all surrounded by my words!

On three, SW Ontario, everybody sing “I can see clearly now” as a magic spell to clear the sky. It will work if we do it together!

Northeasterners, it’s your time to shine for geos!

We rarely have felt reports from your area, and they’re so important for understanding the impact of surficial geology & buildings on lived experience.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

Go on, fill it out. Null reports also help!

My favorite hack as a parent of autist teens and as a general human in the world: Ask 'do you want to vent or do you want to problem solve?' Then respect the category.

This is as close as I will ever come to basketball glory. Thank you Jefferson Library