Now that I’m nearing the end of maternity leave — I get back to regular Book Riot business after the holiday — and since writing has been such a daunting task these last few months, I didn’t share what I’d written and scheduled ahead of time from BR. Here’s a giant roundup of those pieces!

 

• Pressed flower bookmarks.

 

• Great diverse historical YA fiction.

 

• Bling your fingers with bookish rings.

 

• A nerdy history of the ampersand.

 

• Show your love of the bookstore with these fun bookstore pins.

 

• Fun librarian shirts and sweatshirts.

 

• Accessible yoga poses for reading.

 

• The giant roundup of Spring 2021 YA books.

 

• Gifts for readers who love space.

 

• 13 moving poems by YA authors.

 

• 20 more YA verse novels to TBR.

 

• Bookish gifts for horror lovers.

 

• A guide to the best children’s books by age.

 

• Shake it up with Shakespeare stickers.

 

• On the lack of disability representation on diverse book covers.

 

• Awesome resin bookmarks.

 

• YA book cover design makeovers: who wore it better?

 

• A look at nostalgic teen magazines.

 

• Great finds for fans of Goosebumps.

 

• A look at what popular self-help books do — and don’t — tell us about our contemporary moment.

 

• Bookish goods for plant lovers.

 

• An A-Z guide to poetic terminology.

 

• Some of the best nonfiction YA comics.

 

• Literary gifts for mystery lovers.

 

• 5 YA novels turned into comics.

 

• Some of the best YA comics to put on your TBR.

 

• Last, but not least, another round of Literary Jeopardy.