Jess Keating

It’s not the age, it’s the mileage.

"...and for the lady, perhaps a sword?"

*while

Why Graphic Novels Are Great for Young Readers — Jess Keating Learn why graphic novels and comics are great for young readers. Explore research-backed benefits, literacy support, and curated resources for parents and educators supporting confident, engaged reade...

Why I'm here, analytics informs me that a lot of folks find me by searching "why graphic novels are good for kids" so lemme help you with that one!

www.jesskeating.com/blog/why-gra...

A screenshot of four Youtube video stills, featuring lions, gulls, snakes, and a moose. The titles of each are "Shared Snack", "This bird vomits oil", "venom delivery", and "why no domestic moose?"

Educators, I've added a big drop of new videos on my website for you. You can now find:

-a writing series for kids
-book trailers & virtual author visits
-animal science videos
-cartooning tutorials
...and more!

www.jesskeating.com/videos #edusky #science #writing

A Reading Rainbow Facebook post, celebrating Women’s History month, featuring Shark Lady. Mae Among the Stars, and others, in a carousel post.

It's a pleasure to see SHARK LADY
alongside the beacon of literacy that kept so many kids (like me!) full up on amazing books all through childhood.

Reading Rainbow - thanks for sharing! Hit me up if you need an unruly lady to talk books, any day.

Happy it helps!!

Why I Don’t Do Writing Retreats — Jess Keating And other “normal” things you don’t need to do as a creative. When I was a teenager, I wrote one of my favourite authors and told her that she was a big reason I was inspired to become a writer one ...

Dusting off the ol' blogeroo today with a chat about NORMAL -- and why tossing it in the bin is (probably) the way to your true, sustainable creativity. #writers #booksky

www.jesskeating.com/blog/why-i-d...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Friday the 13th, happy Valloween to all the witches, ghouls, vampires and menaces to society who celebrate ✌️

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

So, this sounds flippant, but I mean this with my whole heart:

Women, sometimes the healing “meditative breathwork” you need isn’t slow, calming breaths

but instead loud,
rageful
screaming.

👇👍🇨🇦

Straight to jail!

Just now realized there are a whole bunch of animals out there in the world with the same birthday as me — and we’re all just going through this life thing together. 🌎

a woman is standing in a living room with her arms outstretched and laughing . ALT: a woman is standing in a living room with her arms outstretched and laughing .

jeans = 👖

genes = 🧬

Gene =

No one believes me when I say Canada has a term for when a Prime Minister manhandles a protester who got past security 🤷‍♂️

1st book was pubbed, but have had easily 6+ trunked novels. PBs it’s more. 99% of trunked things stay that way.

Also worth noting I firmly believe some books need to be written *to get them out of your brain* & they’re not meant to be published — and that’s okay. It’s marbles in a tube. Makes room.

This happened to me at an airport in baggage claim! A therapy dog absolutely beelined to me and first I was like “he knows I’m a dog soul!” and then realized OH WAIT 😆

❤️

Banner for blog CanLit for LittleCanadians, Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators with screen shot of Total page views of 2,995,818

Bursting w pride that more are getting into reading #Canadian books for young people & my CanLit for LittleCanadians blog. A new milestone of 3M page views is on the horizon, perhaps a day away. Thank you to all for helping me promote great #CDN books. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com 👍🇨🇦📚!

Why Graphic Novels Are Great for Young Readers — Jess Keating Learn why graphic novels and comics are great for young readers. Explore research-backed benefits, literacy support, and curated resources for parents and educators supporting confident, engaged reade...

Blog Update: I've just added oodles of resources for #educators to help with graphic novel pushback.

Studies, links, stats -- if you're getting a lot of "how do I get my kid to read REAL books" this ought to help! 👇 #edusky

www.jesskeating.com/blog/why-gra...

A photo of the sharp edges and curves carved into a snow drift by the wind. It looks a bit like a wave cresting with sharp shadows and highlights.

A snowdrift sculpture carved by the wind to look a bit like a wave cresting. The top is is deep shadow while the sides are brightly lit by the sun.

An abstract photo of a snow drift. The sharp line between the top and sides slices through the image, leaving the top in dark shadow with the side brightly lit.

The swooping sculpture of a snowdrift carved by the snow showing off sharp contrast between shadow and light.

The winds have been carving some amazing formations into the snow along the highway. For size reference, these drifts are at least as tall as me.

Say what you will about January, but I’ve never met a month as adamant that we feel every single one of her days.

I think Asana has a thing where a little unicorn or other magical creature jumps across the screen with a sparkle with every task you complete. I haven’t used it in ages but know some artist friends who like it specifically for the unicorn. You’d have to make “tasks”, but “query 1” etc could work.

A sculpture of the very hungry caterpillar, held up by a hand. It is sculpted to be anatomically correct and has bright green body segments and a red head with purple antennae.

A sculpture of the very hungry caterpillar, held up by a hand. It is sculpted to be anatomically correct and has bright green body segments and a red head with purple antennae.

A sculpture of the very hungry caterpillar, held up by a hand. It is sculpted to be anatomically correct and has bright green body segments and a red head with purple antennae.

A sculpture of the very hungry caterpillar, held up by a hand. It is sculpted to be anatomically correct and has bright green body segments and a red head with purple antennae.

I’m a menace.
#sculpture #books

Why Graphic Novels Are Great for Young Readers — Jess Keating Learn why graphic novels and comics are great for young readers. Explore research-backed benefits, literacy support, and curated resources for parents and educators supporting confident, engaged reade...

Blog Update: I've just added oodles of resources for #educators to help with graphic novel pushback.

Studies, links, stats -- if you're getting a lot of "how do I get my kid to read REAL books" this ought to help! 👇 #edusky

www.jesskeating.com/blog/why-gra...

Ahh thank youuuuu!!! Perfect

Not all our Keepers wear green!

Zebra foals imprint on their mothers by recognising their unique patterns of stripes. When we rescued this little foal - orphaned after a lion attack - we dusted off our Zebra coat, so that she didn’t feel alone and knew who to follow.

A hand holding a copy of Gross as a Snot Otter, featuring a slimy looking hellbender salamander.

It’s Appreciate A Dragon Day?! I almost missed it.

Boy howdy, have I got a book for you. (Because we should all be counting snot otters as modern day dragons, yes??)

Enjoy 👉 “Animal Planet meets Captain Underpants in the ickiest, squickiest, most fart-filled World of Weird Animals book yet.”