🎂 🎉 BOOK BIRTHDAY BOOK TRAILER! 🦖DINOSAURS TO DRAGONS 🐲 by @shreevebooks.bsky.social & illus. by Violeta Encarnación = middle-grade nonfiction where mermaid, unicorn, & dragon lore meets real science! ✨ Out TODAY -- watch the trailer 👉  www.kidlit.tv/BookTrailerPremiereDINOSAURSTODRAGONS 🗣️ 🐉 or 🦕 👇

💛 📢 HEADS UP! The perfect gift for births, graduations, & all the milestones in between: I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW - by Broadway's Leslie Odom Jr. & Nicolette Robinson, & illus. @momisdrawing.bsky.social  - about the unwavering 💖 between parents & their kids. ✨ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

🏴‍☠️ Ahoy! We've got a swashbuckling HEADS UP for you - TREASURE THIEVES ON THE HIGH SEAS: PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND PLUNDER by @roxiesstudio.bsky.social (Holiday House)! Roxie has answers to questions kids want to know like: "Did pirates really have peg legs?" & "Did captives actually walk the plank?"⚓

📢⚽ Miss the World Cup already? Here's a HEADS UP for you! CHRISTIAN'S SOCCER SUPERPOWERS by soccer star Christian Pulisic & Mike Bender, illus. by Marta Kissi, from Philomel — a young Christian learns the greatest superpower isn't size or speed… it's CONFIDENCE! 💪  @penguinkids.bsky.social

🌟 KLTV KID QOTW! "I like drawing because its fun & thank you."  🎨 This sweet KLTV Kid drew along w/ @joycewanbooks.bsky.social & YOU ARE MY SPECIAL NARWHAL.  🌟Get featured: Follow along & pop a quote or 📸 of their art👇 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/ready-set-draw-with-joyce-wan-you-are-my-special-narwhal/

🎉🐰 And the winner is…Lois Conovan! 🎉 Congrats on winning a copy of UNFUNNY BUNNY signed by Kenan Thompson! 🤩 🌞📚 To enter our NEW @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social Summer Book Bundle Giveaway, sign up for the KLTV newsletter 👉 https://kidlit.tv/newsletter @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

☀️ SUMMER is here! Dive into #KidLitCrafts w/ KidLit TV!  📚✂️ Easy-to-make, 📖-inspired pairings to keep kids busy 🌭 READ Caldecott-winner HOT DOG by Doug Salati & MAKE a recycled dachshund w/ paper roll, yarn, & corks 🌻 MORE budget-friendly ideas! 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/KidLitCrafts&ActivitiesSUMMER

⭐️🍎 Featured KidLit: 100 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT SCHOOL — the joyful 4th book in beloved author Amy Schwartz's (1954–2023) series, illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova. Join a special conversation with Dasha & Leonard Marcus, Amy's husband. 💛 https://www.kidlit.tv/FeaturedKidLit100THINGSILOVEABOUTSCHOOL

✨NEW Storytime EN ESPAÑOL ⚽ When Cecilia's not scoring goals, she's her family's interpreter, Spanish ↔️ English.  🏅📖 LA INTÉRPRETE by Olivia Abtahi, illus. Monica Arnaldo, & transl. David Bowles, it's @bankstreet.edu's 2026 Gold Medal winner 👉https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadOutLoudLAINTÉRPRE

🗣️ KLTV KID QOTW! 🌟 "I'm definitely Bad Kitty's number 1 fan! No doubt about..." 😻 🧡 On #NationalKittenDay, celebrate with kidlit's favorite feisty 🐱! ⭐ Get featured: 1. Make a comic w/ BAD KITTY creator Nick Bruel: https://www.kidlit.tv/ready-set-draw-bad-kitty-makes-comics/ 2. 📸 of their comic 👇

🥰 Welcome to our newest Author Sponsor @shreevebooks.bsky.social ! 📚 Her new #middlegrade nonfiction book DINOSAURS TO DRAGONS hits shelves 07.21 from @simonkids.bsky.social . 🐉💛 Find out more about Elizabeth & her books 👉 www.kidlit.tv/KLTVSuperFans&Sponsors2026 @ssedlib.bsky.social

☀️📚 Win our Summer Book Bundle GIVEAWAY!  Make your kids' summer reading dreams come true! Enter to WIN a bundle of award-winning books from our friends at Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature! ✅ Sign up for the KidLit TV newsletter for your chance to win! 👉 https://kidlit.tv/newsletter

🎧 NEW on KidLit RADIO! ☀️ Fresh summer pods: UNFUNNY BUNNY w/ Kenan Thompson I'M PROUD OF YOU w/ @craigmelvin.bsky.social  StoryMakers #middlegrade Showcase w/ @jencalonita.bsky.social, Carina Finn, & @victorpineiro.bsky.social  StoryMakers w/ @readingrainbow's @mychal3ts  👉 www.kidlit.tv/KidLitRADIO

🐱 #NationalKittenDay is July 10th!  If you haven't noticed, we're cat lovers around here. 😻 We've gathered our most purr-fect kitty-themed #kidlit content all in one place.  🐾 Whether you're a parent or educator, these tails are the cat's meow!  👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/NationalKittenDay

🎆 Happy #FourthOfJuly! Our UPDATED resource is PACKED with patriotic picture books & fun crafts for your little firecrackers! 🧨✨ ❤️🤍💙 www.kidlit.tv/KidLitCrafts&ActivitiesINDEPENDENCEDAY 🗣️ Have you got an #IndependenceDay book we should add to our list? Tell us👇   @simonkids.bsky.social

🌀✏️  A-MAZE-ING Fan Art! Check out the incredible mazes KLTV Kids drew along with author/illus @roxiesstudio.bsky.social while watching Ready Set Draw! 🤩  🖍️ It's Fan Art Friday! Watch Roxie's Busy Maze episode, follow along, & UPLOAD your kiddo's maze 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/roxie-munro-maze/ #STEAM

🎂 Happy Birthday to our KidLit TV Kitties, Luke & Leia 🐱🐱, who turn 6 YEARS OLD today! 🥳 Have you seen Luke & Leia on KidLit TV? 😻 Catch them in our RESCUE CAT episodes: 📚 Read Out Loud 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadOutLoudRESCUECAT ✍️ Ready Set Draw! 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadySetDrawRESCUECAT (1/2)

✨ "I love the book!" 🧡🐱 That's one KLTV Kid's rave review of BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY by Melissa Sweet. 🎈 We couldn't agree more! This Sibert Medal–winner tells the true story of Tony Sarg, the puppeteer who invented the giant balloons that STILL star in Macy's Parade each year. (🧵1/2)

📚 There are so many children's titles out there -- how can you know which are THE VERY BEST for the kids in your life? There's no better resource than Bank Street's Best Children's Books of the Year! 🏅 (🧵1/3)

🖍️ It's Fan Art Friday! Teachers, librarians, and parents—we'd love to feature YOUR kids' creations!  1️⃣ Watch ANY episode of Ready Set Draw! and follow along 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadySetDraw 2️⃣ UPLOAD a 📸 in the comments  3️⃣ Check here each Friday for KidLit TV Kids' masterpieces! 🌟

🌴🌺 Tropical toucans in all their splendor! Check out what KLTV Kids drew along with @roxiesstudio.bsky.social while watching Ready Set Draw: ANTEATERS, BATS & BOAS. Guess which is Roxie's drawing! 😉❤️ (🧵 1/2)

✈️ KLTV's heading to Chicago for the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Annual Conference! 🎉  Author/illus  @roxiesstudio.bsky.social & KLTV founder @juliegribble.bsky.social will bring the best of #ALAAC26 to you with a special on-location 📢 Heads Up! Watch June 26-28 on IG and TikTok @kidlittv. 📚📺

📚🌴☀️ Get your summer reading stack sorted AND support indie bookstores! Did you know KidLit TV is on Bookshop.org? Find stories little ones ❤️ from Read Out Loud, StoryMakers, & Ready Set Draw all in one place. 😎 Support local booksellers and stop the summer slide 👉 https://bookshop.org/shop/kidlittv

☀️ Here's a summer reading stack that will get #middlegrade readers to put down their screens & pick up a book! Bethany Edwards has a fresh list of diverse stories that will keep even the trickiest readers turning pages while school's out: https://www.kidlit.tv/Top5DiversePictureBooksforSummerReading

💙🐱 Happy #FathersDay from all of us at KidLit TV! 📚✨ To every dad, papa, step-dad, & father-figure who has read a bedtime story, done ALL the voices, and persevered through "just one more chapter" -- we think you are AMAZING.  🗣️ What's one book that reminds you of a father figure in your life?

⚽ The World Cup is ON! 🏆 Soccer is all about teamwork. 🙌 So, @torreymaldonado.bsky.social & a team of #kidlit all-⭐s created a diverse booklist to help kids score life goals ON and OFF the field: https://cbcbooks.org/soccer-books-in-time-for-the-world-cup-about-being-the-best-on-and-off-the-field/

😂🐰 KLTV asked for your best Dad Jokes and you totally wowed us! Here👇 are a few of our favorites in time for Father's Day.  Join the fun inspired by Kenan Thompson's picture book UNFUNNY BUNNY -- tell us YOUR best joke below!  👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadOutLoudUNFUNNYBUNNY @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

✂️🎨 Father's Day sorted! Our UPDATED KidLit Crafts & Activities for Father's Day is packed with diverse picture books + kid-friendly projects for every kind of Dad. 🦁 Lion handprints, 🤝 secret handshakes, 😆 dad jokes, & so much more. 🥰 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/KidLitCrafts&ActivitiesFATHERSDAY

📚 KLTV's heading to Chicago @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Annual Conference! 🎉 Rocco, @roxiesstudio.bsky.social&@juliegribble.bsky.social will bring the best of #ALAAC26 to you with a special on-the-go Heads Up! Watch on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kidlittv & TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kidlittv

Here are two of our must-reads -- what are yours? Help us build our list!👇 ✨ JUNETEENTH FOR MAZIE by the legendary Floyd Cooper (with read-aloud video) 🪡 A FLAG FOR JUNETEENTH written & featuring hand-sewn, quilted illustrations by Kim Taylor 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/BooksToCelebrateJuneteenth