About STEM Friday

How did STEM Friday get started?

Anastasia Suen writes the Focus on STEM column for Booklist’s Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries, so she has lots of GREAT nonfiction books for children and teens to share. In August 2011, she created a new blog meme logo for her #kidlit Book of the Day blog:

STEM Friday

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Other bloggers asked to participate in STEM Friday and new blog round-up meme was born! Each week a different blogger hosted the round-up.

After teachers and librarians asked us to host the roundup in one place (making it easier to find) we moved to the WordPress.com site in 2012. In October 2018, we moved to this new ad-free site and have been sharing #kidlit STEM books ever since!

Q. Is this blog still active?
A. Yes! For many years, posts shared on both STEM Friday blogs came from the home blogs of different STEM Friday bloggers. As new social media was created, however, people migrated to those new platforms and stopped blogging.

Now the posts on this blog come from the blog of Booklist’s Quick Tips for Schools & Libraries Newsletter columnist Anastasia Suen.

Want to send in a book for the blog?

Q. Will you share my new #kidlit book on your blog?
A. I love to share new #kidlit books with my readers!

Q. Can I send you a link or a PDF?
A. No. I’m blogging so I can donate hardcover books to a library in a low-income neighborhood (and they can’t circulate links, PDFs, or uncorrected proofs such as ARCs and galleys).

Ask your publicist to send the book to:
Anastasia Suen
7960 B Soquel Dr. #228
Aptos, CA 95003

Q. When will you blog about my new book?
A. I share books after they are launched. The blog post will also be shared on social media:

Q. Do you share every book that is sent to you?
A. Due to the volume of submissions, I cannot blog about every book that comes in. After I read the books I donate them to the library so your book will be shared whether it appears on the blog or not.

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Please note, I was an IndieBound affiliate before Bookshop launched in January 2020. In 2023, Bookshop announced that “beginning March 1, IndieBound.org, the American Bookseller Association’s consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, will switch to using Bookshop.org to handle sales and fulfillment.”

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