If I ❤️ your #dvpit or #dvart pitch, you are welcome to DM or email me for the link to submit requested projects. Thank you! Unfortunately I need to remain closed to unsolicited submissions.

Kirkus Reviews for RED THREADS is up!!! EEEEE! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

2-for-1 today: #peachtober25 & #kidlitartpostcard 🌬️🪁 I'm finishing up my author-illustrator debut with Kids Can Press & I'm looking for illustration projects :) I'm rep'd by the best, Janine Le @janinele.bsky.social ! www.aprilmilne.com 🍃🎐 #kidlitart #peachtober #peachtober25kite #illustration

'Miss Nelson Is Missing' Movie With Melissa McCarthy Set at Netflix | Variety

We've been keeping a little secret like Miss Nelson! She's coming to Netflix... with a dream team package including Melissa McCarthy and Hello Sunshine!!! Huge thanks to the teams at HarperCollins, Circle M+P, and Sheldon Fogelman Agency deadline.com/2025/09/miss...

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

it’s july!! and finally it’s been hot around here!! hope you are all staying cool as a freezie pop and sharing your treats 🧊🍦 i cleaned up a little comic from my sketchbook for this month’s #kidlitartpostcard :) #kidlitart #cankidlit #illustration #kidlit #canadianillustrator

We're 2 days in and y'all are showing up! If you haven't had a chance to bid, now's the time!! link in bio! To help you out, we're unearthing more of the BEST resources the industry has to offer 😉Thread below... Get those literary butts in gear! #amwriting #critique #AMA #picturebook #nonfiction

Antwan Eady, Carole Boston Weatherford, Mac Barnett, X. Fang, Bryan Collier, and more. Quite a lineup for Picture Book Palooza! on July 17. www.slj.com/event/slj-pi...

I'm SO excited for #PBSummit this year! Yesterday, I announced our second superstar speaker (take a peek). If you register today, you'll automatically be entered to get your ticket refunded. #kidlit #kidlitart picturebooksummit.com.

The #ReadAcrossAmerica theme for June is all about lifting others up — because every student deserves to feel seen, supported, and empowered. 📚 Whether you’re planning a read-aloud or adding to your classroom library, these books are a great place to start: bit.ly/4kGXnQy

National Book Award winner Shifa Saltagi Safadi has new chapter books celebrating a #BookBirthday! Meet Amina Banana 🧡 She’s a determined and clever third grader, and star of a new series with a STEM twist.

Today is the last day to oppose the gutting of the Endangered Species Act, I just did and it’s not hard:

#kidlitartpostcard day! convalescing on my couch so reused an illo again, hehe 🌸 I'm a mixed Filipino-Canadian author-illustrator, rep'd by the loveliest Janine Le! @janinele.bsky.social 🌼cute portfolio: aprilmilne.com 🪐fun newsletter: mygutisacosmos.substack.com #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit

MAKE A LITTLE WAVE by Kerry O'Malley Cerra is a Green Earth Book Awards Honor Book! www.natgen.org/green-earth-... @lernerbooks.bsky.social @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social @janinele.bsky.social

New on OPB! Learn about the world of children's book representation from literary agent Janine Le. She shares her insights on finding great stories and working with creators. www.onlypicturebooks.com/2025/04/28/a... #PictureBooks #KidLitAgent #PublishingAdvice #MondayBlogs #IMWAYR

Speechless. And honored. So very honored! Happy Earth Day, my sharkies! Thank you, Tue Nature Generation, @lernerbooks.bsky.social , and @janinele.bsky.social

We spoke with National Book Award winner Shifa Saltagi Safadi about her new chapter book series Amina Banana, the titular protagonist, and her sunny optimism

And continued #gra25 #globalreadaloud

Today is Right To Read Day— to celebrate and defend our fundamental freedom to choose what and how we read, write, draw, publish & express ourselves. It’s an honor to have made some artwork for this campaign! uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

hello #KidLitArtPostcard 👋 i'm an illustrator who loves fantasy, history, and anything folk. i'm looking to do more picture books, and would love to do covers, chap book spots & graphic novels too 🖍 portfolio: mdanesh.myportfolio.com agent: janinele.com email: [email protected]

happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm a mixed Filipino-Canadian author-illustrator. Rep'd by the wonderful Janine Le! @janinele.bsky.social 🌟💫✨⭐ #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit

So excited to join the team @janinele.bsky.social Literary Agency !!! All future inquiries for publishing illustration and everything to do with books please speak with Janine Le! #books #kidlit #illustration #art #agent #lucky

Welcome new client Jessie Boulard! @jessieboulard.bsky.social

#Nowruz pirooz! a lil drawing of amu nowruz & naneh sarma🪻

i've fielded q's & worked on a couple of projects lately that made me realize i needed to check in with how much i charge for things 🙂‍↕️ remembered I have this very useful tome!! thank you past me for splurging!! the graphic artist's guild pricing handbook is a bible for illustrators! luxury wow

#FreePalestine #Nowruz

Good news! 5 Kinds of Nonfiction is turning 5 years old. To celebrate, I've updated the recommended reading lists. tinyurl.com/avdu2r37 @stenhousepub.bsky.social #edusky #kidlit @steamteambooks.bsky.social

Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA. The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out. Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding. bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

my first #KidLitArtPostcard ! i'm an illustrator who loves fantasy, history, and anything folk. i'm looking to do more picture books, and would love to do covers, chap book spots & graphic novels too 🖍 portfolio: mdanesh.myportfolio.com agent: janinele.com email: [email protected]

“An inspiring tale of a life dedicated to making better people in a better world.” —Kirkus So glad to see GRACE LEE BOGGS: GARDENS OF HOPE out in the world right now! Happy book birthday @songjudaemicke.bsky.social !

Those joyful, hope-filled, thrilling, defiant, chockful of facts, demand that you see me books out there matter. Your kid readers (and your big kid readers) need them. So keep writing them. Keep recommending them. Keep sharing them. Keep posting and reviewing them. Be mighty and be loud.

Also read a lot. And not just comics. Go to plays, watch documentaries, learn about stuff. Literally anything you actually read and learn about anything you're interested in will make you a better storyteller. Your little weird obsessions? That's what makes you and your stories interesting.

The people who read our books are kids. They don’t have money to spend. They don’t subscribe to publications that review books. They find us at the library. If the books aren’t there, it’s like they don’t exist. And that makes kids feel like *they* don’t exist.

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

Just got this press release. Beyond dystopian.

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

Delighted to share another middle grade verse novel from Shifa Saltagi Safadi is in the works with her fabulous team at Putnam! Get ready to cozy up with this one! ❄️

It's TODAY! We've been dying to share the '25 #PBRisingStars Mentor class, and now we finally can! Shoutout to @kidlit411.bsky.social for hosting our BIG announcement! Click to see who the TWENTY-NINE incredible mentors are, each excited to help YOU chase your publishing dreams! bit.ly/25Mentors

Celebrating my dream to author/illustrate picturebooks and chapter books 💛 Meet Huni Cruz! She’s a 6yo FilAm girl who is determined to learn one new thing a day (and add a commemorative pin to her collection). I love drawing her and exploring her world, and I hope to share more of her soon!

The 2025 #PBParty contest entry window is officially open... until 8 pm Eastern. 🎉 The judges and I are sending tons of good luck wishes your way and can't wait to read your submissions. ✨✨✨✨ How many entries do you think we'll have this year? mindyalyseweiss.com/...

Are you on a journey to publishing?? Have you seen these auction items?! bit.ly/lkbfauction25 #writersofbluesky #illustratorsofbluesky

“It is of the utmost importance that teachers and school administrators resist the urge to self-censor their curricula or force students into conformity.”

✨Ending Friday✨ Thank you for helping raise almost $17,000! Just $5,000 till goal, still with dozens of items available. If you’re in need of a critique, advice, art commission, workshop, mentorship, we’ve got you! Visit: www.32auctions.com/KidLit4Cease...

Please join my client Shifa Saltagi Safadi and her editor Ruta Rimas in conversation! Free and sure to be insightful! Thank you @kwelijournal.bsky.social !

The stage is set for the 2025 #ALAYMA announcements! Join us at ala.unikron.com or on the ALA Facebook page. www.facebook.com/AmericanLibr...

The US Dept. of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has dismissed 11 complaints and six allegations related to book bans, saying it was ending "Biden’s book ban hoax." PEN America counted over 10,000 instances of school book bans in the 2023-24 school year, nearly 3X the number in the previous year.

We are a group of #kidlit creators heartbroken by the devastating scenes in Los Angeles. We aim to raise desperately-needed funds for wildfire relief with an auction taking place Jan 20th - Jan 26th. Stay tuned for more details! Follow IG: @kidlitforlosangeles Logo by @sydhanson.bsky.social

A great opportunity for unagented picture book writers and illustrators! Still closed to submissions, but I'll be taking a look at the PBParty showcase!