I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
Check out a new book I illustrated written by @philbildner.bsky.social ! TOO BIG TO SAY is coming your way next spring!
Phil Bildner**It's the Cover Reveal Day for TOO BIG TO SAY** My pal, @mikecurato.bsky.social, the creator of the graphic novel FLAMER, is the illustrator of my next middle grade novel. Thank you to Betsy Bird and @slj.com for the reveal and Q&A. Please check it out. afuse8production.slj.com/2026/07/27/c...
A new book from @philbildner.bsky.social & @mikecurato.bsky.social? Yes, please! Looking forward to this one - TOO BIG TO SAY feels like a title that needs to be in every middle school library. Here's the cover reveal & interview from @fuse8.bsky.social! afuse8production.slj.com/2026/07/27/c...
Cover Reveal and Q&A: Too Big to Say with Phil Bildner and Mike Curato - A Fuse #8 Production"I will be relentlessly defending this book. I will be defending its right to exist. I will be defending the right for young people to have access to this book and their right to read this book." - Ph...afuse8production.slj.com
The pedophiles in charge of this country are positively salivating about having the legal right to demand inspecting children's genitals, just to be crystal fucking clear.
Phil BildnerDoes Your Child Play Youth Sports? If your child plays youth sports, get ready. Gender verification -- a disgusting and dehumanizing practice -- is coming your way. How do we know your child is really a girl? Yeah, that's what today's hateful and ignorant Supreme Court decision has ushered in.
The people running the US would do well to study the history of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381. People tend not to respond well to government inspectors of their children's genitals.
Phil BildnerDoes Your Child Play Youth Sports? If your child plays youth sports, get ready. Gender verification -- a disgusting and dehumanizing practice -- is coming your way. How do we know your child is really a girl? Yeah, that's what today's hateful and ignorant Supreme Court decision has ushered in.
Hey, all you new followers, here’s something I care about. I hope you care, too. On the other hand, if book banning is your jam, you should leave now. The planet, I mean. Thanks.
Martha HicksonIf you watched THE LIBRARIANS, turn your anger into action by donating to my fundraiser to support EveryLibrary. Donate at least $5 and I’ll toss a book banner into the litterbox to await a tribute from my cats. gofund.me/9c5f9f290
Why does the Freedom to Read Project defend the First Amendment? Because the freedom to read is connected to the freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. We believe people, not politicians or pressure groups, should decide what they read and what ideas they explore.
Bigoted school boards are citing HR 2616 as the reason they're taking anti-trans policy actions now. This is from Colorado, which you may recall has an anti-book ban bill. They've banned a book because it centered a trans narrative: gazette.com/2026/06/12/d...
D-20 to require permission for name changes, removes book with transgender narrativeAcademy District 20 will require parental consent for name changes, a move that advocates say will harm the district’s transgender students. The action, unanimously approved Thursday by the D-20 schoo...gazette.comFor Your 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders Who (Now) Love Basketball! Looking for summer reading or back-to-school reading for the young people in your life who are (now) all-in with basketball thanks to the New York Knicks historic run? Please consider sharing my middle grade Rip & Red series with them.
What a bullshit headline from the @nytimes.com. The cancellation of the watch parties has zero to do with Mayor Mamdani and everything to do with the monstrous piece of shit who destroys everything he contacts.
Please tell the young people in your life that Victor Wembanyama loves to read. Please tell the young people in your life that Victor Wembanyama loves to read books. Read like Wemby. Books save lives.