sylvie shaffer

Thrilled to explore Easy Readers and share the knowledge I’ve been honing since serving on the 2018 Geisel Award- Thanks, @HornBook, for the opportunity!

@GSarafan It really was magical. Sigh.

Oh Mondegreen, take me back! 🎡

What book should my child read next? A librarian offers suggestions. | @washingtonpost buff.ly/3MiaLeQ

Me trying to explain YEM to a normie

My kingdom for a 40,000 word middle grade.

Hey @thegridkid one eats pomegranate ARILS, not seeds. I have been ranting about this with my wife for several minutes and now it’s escalated to online ranting. On this hellsite! But it’s ARILS and I must be pedantic about it. #nytimes #puzzles @NYTGames

@shgmclicious Dress for the job you want, amiright?

@sylvie_shaffer Oooh, you sound like a lady of leisure

Amazing how wearing a dReSsInG gOwN just makes work from home instantly fancier

Using "if you give a mouse a cookie" as the inspiration for my to do list

@navybluemosk Do you have meal support set up? Would a meal train be helpful? Lemme know. Will be thinking of your family this week.

I am grateful that my Oma & Opa were among the 10% of surviving German Jews, that my Bubbie was among the 7% surviving Lithuanian Jews, and my Zaidie was among the 10% surviving Polish Jews. #holocaustremembranceday #yomhashoah Graphic via Uri L’Tzedek

@shgmclicious The case for rage was already on my personal summer reading list - I’ll keep the other titles in mind, too, thanks!

I don't have a problem with DiAngelo simply bc I accept that white people just don't want to listen to anyone but fellow whites, so cheers to Robin for being that lady, but also if I may, some books that are just as accessible & deserve as much hype from whites & nonwhites alike:

@GSarafan @AbramsonFL I saw them on the first Warped tour in August 95. Wore my 40oz cassette tape out.

@AbramsonFL thats fair. I was not a teenager in the 90s. I listened to some sublime in HS as i was a teenager in the early and mid 00s, but yeah. i listened to most of it. it was fine.

Listening to 40oz. To Freedom just bc I don't think I have ever listened straight through. This album is kinda boring 😴

First time I heard 40oz was on the drive from Allston to Highgate to see Dylan & The Dead. Only studio album in handful of bootleg cassettes, which sound bad on shitty blown out speakers. Didn’t have a license so I sat bitch middle seat. Allston MA, 95 = ska. Loved it then, now.

@seejesswrite Ashley Herring Blake’s Trilogy - the first one is “Delilah Green Doesn’t Care” … quippy, funny & hot

I’m on a romance kick lately (mostly Emily Henry). What’s something similar but sapphic?

@spooloflies @remreader93 also like they don't even warn you that it's covered in coconut flakes - they're not in the description! ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/passov…

@spooloflies @remreader93 especially on the jelly roll! like, whyyyyy?

Timely controversial Jewish opinion: coconut is a bad accent flavor and should be used less in Passover foods.

@Jarrett_Lerner Under the Egg and The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald

What are your favorite Middle Grade and younger mysteries?

@KyleLukoff I hate this. We were so lucky to partner with some other area schools to host him for an author visit last year and he was unsurprisingly SO FANTASIC! Great speaker, had kids super engaged, and love his books, too. Ugh.

@AprilBerryBooks If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall, The Jolly Postman by the Ahlbergs

Dear #kidlit #writingcommunity friends. I'm writing an epistolary PB, and I need mentor texts. Please send me all your recommendations for picture book stories told through letters.

@spooloflies This is an incredibly important distinction- I would push even further than exceptionalizing Jews as victims endangers not only us, but other marginalized groups as well.

People tried to say that acknowledging other victims was Holocaust erasure. I want to be crystal clear that refusing to recognize the full spectrum of Nazi persecution is dangerous, and exceptionalizing Jews as victims can endanger us.

Not to drag this mishegas into a second day, but "The Holocaust only refers to the Jews who were murdered by Nazis" is a form of Holocaust denial. The Shoah is specifically the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish people. The Holocaust is many groups' persecution.