Here are the tweets I shared this week:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Cape Coral poet Lee Bennett Hopkins dies at age 81 after prolific career in children’s literature (link: https://buff.ly/2KyWji6) buff.ly/2KyWji6 #kidlit

‘Greta effect’ leads to boom in children’s environmental books (link: https://buff.ly/2TnUCYN) buff.ly/2TnUCYN #kidlit

The Pinkneys Are A Picture Book Perfect, Author-Illustrator Couple (link: https://buff.ly/300VLbh) buff.ly/300VLbh #kidlit

Where Are All The Plus-Size Characters In Children’s Books? (link: https://buff.ly/2YNWrn6) buff.ly/2YNWrn6 #kidlit

LIBRARIES

15 things you can check out from the library (besides books)- Shareable (link: https://buff.ly/2KxVB65) buff.ly/2KxVB65 #libraries

Closing libraries means abandoning society’s most isolated and vulnerable | Dawn Finch (link: https://buff.ly/2KcNxYd) buff.ly/2KcNxYd #libraries

Is Summer Learning Loss Real? How I lost faith in one of education research’s classic results – Education Next (link: https://buff.ly/2EO65La) buff.ly/2EO65La

Librarians facing new tasks say crisis isn’t in the catalog (link: https://buff.ly/300NJPx) buff.ly/300NJPx #libraries

Libraries can have 3-D printers but they are still about books (link: https://buff.ly/2ZTiENZ) buff.ly/2ZTiENZ #libraries

Library receipt goes viral after reader saves more than $7,000 by borrowing books (link: https://buff.ly/2KOqjXc) buff.ly/2KOqjXc #libraries

Verizon demands $880 from rural library for just 0.44GB of roaming data (link: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/verizon-demands-880-from-rural-library-for-just-0-44gb-of-roaming-data/) arstechnica.com/information-te… #libraries