Laurie Ann Thompson

Dear all the college kids, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, All your professors

Anyone reaching out to an author, please write your email yourself. I am begging you. We get so many AI scam emails. If you use AI to write your email we will pick up on the AI voice and immediately suspect it is spam.

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

Remember my article last week with the Naomi Klein quote that cities are inherently anti-fascist? This is part of that idea.

Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."

I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.

“Every American family struggling with high costs is suffering because of the corrupt relationship between Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry.”

This was such a fun event, and truly an honor to be included. Huge thanks to Imagination Library of Washington, the Seattle Public Library, the City of Seattle Government, and Page Ahead for making it happen! council.seattle.gov/2026/09/22/c...

Next week we’ll reveal the cover for my next book, delightfully illustrated by Karen Obuhanych. I can’t wait to show you!

TFW when you visit the Royal Danish Library to see the exhibits, but they’re all closed for a special music weekend, so instead you’re forced to “make do” with a latte, a rhubarb truffle, and a beautiful view, while listening to a lovely, live classical music performance. 🤷‍♀️

I’m thrilled to have contributed a piece to the Bigfoot Festival Magazine: Two Truths and a Lie: Pacific Northwest Edition, illustrated by Donna V. Letterese. We’ll be in company with some amazingly talented contributors. Pre-order your copy now!

💖🥳 Such a fab time! *LOVED* reuniting and meeting up with such a great #kidlit crew for happy hour in Redmond, WA! Really miss living here, so it was bubbly joy seeing you all in person and catching up. I hope you can continue meeting up, you're so lucky to be near each other!!

When my kids were younger, the last weeks of summer before school started were pure chaos, as I tried to cram in more time for fun, back-to-school shopping, and curing summer slide. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to relax, breathe, and simply enjoy: self-care FTW, for all of us.

I ran into this online snd thought about how our childhood reading stays with us #kidlitchat

Giant sequoias are not just trees. They are among the last survivors of ecological systems that once held the planet together.

The usual excuse behind the rush to build these data centers is "we can't let China get ahead of us". But we seem to have no problem letting China lap us when it comes to renewable energy. Odd, ain't it?

4/ That's not the only escape hatch Big Oil is turning to. They're lobbying Congress to shield the fossil fuel industry from legal liability, denying access to justice to millions. Contact your Congressperson today and demand they say no to immunity for Big Oil.

Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research. Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage." No time to waste. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

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Can you guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Today was a very birdy day. While drinking my coffee this morning, I could hear a very demanding osprey screaming from somewhere nearby. Then, on tonight’s dog walk, we heard a great horned owl very close to us and later surprised a literal swarm of bushtits. 🦅🦉🐤

CaturDogDay sweetness….

Happy World Honey Bee Day! To celebrate, you might * plant native plants or flowers, * reduce the chemicals used in your yard, * put out a bee bath, * buy local honey, and/or * read YOU ARE A HONEY BEE! to a child in your life. 😊🐝 lauriethompson.com/books/honey_...

You know what you might need? To spend five minutes to choose your favorite baby capybara pic from this gallery www.gettyimages.com/photos/baby-...

Last night, I dreamed that a person woke me up early and I was SO FREAKING MAD. How rude! Jerk! Then, my dog woke me up early IRL, and I was like, “Oh, good morning, sweetie! You need some love?“ He will always get a free pass. 🥰

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: “Hi, I’m an arterial bleed weeks after an otherwise routine tonsillectomy.”

Any #k12 teachers out there on #EduSky have a wish list on bookshop.org that I could help clear (or at least boost)? I'd much rather #clearthelist there and support independent bookstores than give any more money to you-know-who!

I was lucky enough to read a pre-release draft of this, and it is so good! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I highly recommend!

New polling from The 2035 Initiative, a climate policy research center at UC Santa Barbara, suggests that the Democratic Party’s “climate hushing” is not a winning strategy and that US voters would welcome candidates talking about climate action. By Kate Yoder for @grist.org:

Today’s reminder that climate change endangers our health

How's your Jimothy Summer going? 🦝 Thanks to Laurie Ann Thompson, ours is going great! #booksky #jimothy @lauriethompson.com

So fun to see You Are a Raccoon! in the Jimothy display at @brick-mortar.bsky.social yesterday, and signed copies are now in the store!! #shoplocal #supportyourlocalindie #independentbookstores

If your young readers are obsessed with Seattle's Jimothy, check out these children's books featuring raccoons (most by local authors)!

NEW NUMBERS: One year after Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress made the largest health care cuts in history to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, five million Americans and counting have lost their health care coverage.

I ended the school year with 3 days of author visits Woodridge Elementary. I presented “Truths and Lies” to grades 3-5 on the 1st day, then saw K and 1st grade for interactive read-alouds of all 4 books from the Meet Your World Series. So much fun!

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All but a handful of U.S. states just had one of their five warmest springs on record. Our look at the numbers for spring 2026 and May 2026, per NOAA/NCEI: @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/seco...

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."

Writing can be a solitary and often thankless career. Comments like this make it all worth it! I'm so happy this little guy loves the Meet Your World series. 🥰

Call or email your U.S. Representative: "HR 7661 is a nationwide book ban bill that targets marginalized communities. It’s a blatant violation of the 1st amendment and extreme government overreach. Please vote NO on HR 7661! Thanks, [YOUR NAME]"

Here’s a script you and your readers can use: HR 7661 is a nationwide book ban bill that targets marginalized communities. It’s a blatant violation of the 1st amendment, and extreme government overreach. Please vote NO on HR 7661! Thanks, [YOUR NAME]

Since we've been bugging you to send postcards to your House Representative, we made this downloadable design for you to print your own. Print a few at home for your house or bring it to a local print shop for wider distribution. What to write?...

I’m so looking forward to SCBWI-WWA‘s in-person conference this Saturday, especially being on the faculty and getting to talk about writing productivity! www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...