Dropping into November with an orange and teal combed marbling pattern 🌀 Looking forward to using this bright paper for a mini bookbinding project 📖 Happy Marbled Monday! 🎨 #craftsky #papercrafts #artsky #handmade #portland

Happy Halloween! 🎃 I’m resharing this silly poem about a flower loving Frankenstein in honor of the spooky day 🥀 Watch here: youtu.be/Qh_sTZ9dOgc?... #poetry #kidlit #Halloween

Couldn’t be prouder of my new poetry zine for kids with the wonderful Stefan. His words and illustrations are dreamy.

New zine coming soon! ✨ My friend @carlburkitt.bsky.social and I have collaborated on a children’s poetry zine—and here’s the cover reveal! Chatting Poems celebrates the joy of joining together with others in conversation. Stay tuned for more details! #kidlit #poetry #zinesky #booksky #kidlitart

Here’s a brilliant spooky poem for kids by @brianmosespoet.bsky.social for these days (and nights) leading up to Halloween 👻🎃 #kidlit #poetryforkids #poetry

It’s pumpkin season again! 🎃 Here’s one of my fall poems for kids — about pumpkins with big dreams (and one little pumpkin who’s happy as is). 🍂✨ View the poem here: youtu.be/3SpHADV3DDI?... #kidlit #poetry

Spooky season swirls of orange & purple suminagashi layered over a bright stone pattern 🌀🎃💜 Wishing you a happy Marbled Monday! 🎨 #craftsky #papercrafts #portland #handmade

Here are some spooky season inspired handmade notebooks for that spell-writing, Halloween-all-year-round witchy friend of yours 🧙‍♀️✨ #craftsky #handmade #notebooks #writingcommunity

Here are a few of my recent fav spooky season reads as a children’s bookseller! 👻📚 Aggie and the Ghost by @mattforsythe.bsky.social This Year, a Witch! by @abbottzoey.bsky.social The Witch in the Tower by Júlia Sardà This Book Is Definitely Not Cursed by @meganwoodward.bsky.social #kidlit

It’s almost Halloween so I give you this truly haunting tale of a very spooky dookie 💩👻 “The Haunted Poop” is a goopy ghost story that will make kids giggle! Check it out here: youtu.be/NkenpKPUC2g?... #kidlit #poetry #halloween

👀 COMING SOON! Our From Trash to Treasure #kidlitpoetry contest is back this November with special guest judge @tracierenee.bsky.social! Check out last year's contest entries & start scrounging through your discarded lines! www.littlethoughtspress.com/post/from-tr...

Orange leaves gently falling 🍂🍁 Fall inspired marbled pattern for this week’s Marbled Monday 🎨 #crafts #marbling #Portland

At the children’s bookstore where I work, we hosted a sign making workshop ahead of this weekend’s No Kings protest. I’m proud to be part of a team that values community and stands up for what we believe in. #portland #NoKings #kidlit

Fellow poetry friends, I'm trying to breathe new life into my old Youtube channel. I need more subscribers. Please help x www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlqw...

Tomorrow is Let Freedom Read Day, a day of action for communities to unite against book bans! Here’s a list of small actions you can take to defend the right to read: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-... #FreedomToRead #BannedBooksWeek

What an excellent blog post by children’s poet @josiedefalco.bsky.social! Josie is a wonderful poet whose voice enriches the #kidlit community. So nice to learn more about her work and inspirations here!

It’s Banned Books Week! Here are a couple banned/challenged books I’ve read recently. What are you doing this week to defend the right to read? #BannedBooksWeek

Excited to have my spooky poem “The Book of Beware” featured in this blog post! Thank you! 📚🧙 #kidlit #poetry #halloween

The duck pond’s mirror doubles the public’s green— nothing is for sale. #haikusaturday #haiku #poetry #portland

Here I am at work having too much fun selling picture books 🪄📚😂 #kidlit #childrensbooks www.instagram.com/reel/DPSD9j_...

I love the theme for this year’s #NationalPoetryDay in the UK: Play! I have plenty of poems about play on my #kidlit YouTube channel, including a #poem about an epic game of tic-tac-toe! Find it here: youtube.com/@stefankidsp...

If you’re looking for Halloween poems this spooky season, check out scaryness.com, a new webzine featuring spooky poems for kids! Great for educators, parents, and young ghouls 👻 I’m honored to have a couple silly-scary poems there 🎃 #kidlit #poetry

In honor of spooky season, I’m reading scary books this week 😅

Flowing into fall with an autumn-inspired paper marbling 🎨🍂🌀 A pattern for future #bookbinding efforts! 📚 #crafts #handmade

Murder at the Museum / Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All / A Royal Conundrum / A Dictionary of Scoundrels / The Parker Inheritance / From the Desk of Zoe Washington / Undercover Latina / The World's Greatest Detective 💙📚

I just read Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce for our local Kids at Heart Book Club. Now I’m curious: What are your favorite #kidlit mystery books? I’m hoping to put together a list for future reading! #amreading

Portland looking particularly War ravaged today. I was under siege from falling leaves. Unauthorized squirrels abounded—the attack shook me to my core. Worst part: domestic puppies were out in Full Force.

I still can’t believe I got to guest edit an issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. I’m hugely grateful to the editor, @clairemtaylor.com, for giving me this chance, and to all the writers and artists who embraced our theme. Come and be stirred by beautiful words! littlethoughtspress.com/issues

Yikes! I have two new spooky poems for kids on the Scary-ness Express poetry website! Delighted to join the talented bunch of children’s poets in this scary-fun webzine 👻🚂✨ Bones & Boo Inn: scaryness.com/new-poems-no... Book of Beware: scaryness.com/new-poems-no... #poetry #kidlit #halloween

New pattern, new season 🍂 Hope your fall gets off to a lovely & peaceful start! #patterns #craft #handmade #PortlandOregon

I’m loving the spooky poems for kids on the wonderful new website scaryness.com, a free resource for scary poems (with a sprinkle of fun)! Extra excited to have my own spooky work haunting the site soon! 👻🧙‍♀️📚 #poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit

I’m happy to be a submissions reader for the next issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. The theme is Better Together! Wondering what to write about? Why not shine a spotlight on one of the young heroes featured on this website? myhero.com/child

I’m super excited to have a poem for kids featured in @emberjournal.org! This poem involves a couple of my favorite things: the mind-blowing concept of infinity ♾️🤯 and pasta! 🍝😁 Read the poem here: read.emberjournal.org/stefan-karls... #poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit

Layered labyrinths 🌀 Suminagashi swirls marbled over a second suminagashi-style print 🎨 #patterns #marbling #suminagashi #papercrafts

New silly #kidlit poem about a hot dragon—too hot for his own good! 🔥🐉 I had a lot of fun illustrating and animating this one! Watch the poem here: youtube.com/shorts/iSnyk... #poetryforkids #kidlitart #poetry #art

One more day for the Labor Day Etsy Sale! 25% off all items in the shop! ✨ Check it out here: www.etsy.com/shop/Nautilu... #etsy #LaborDay2025 #handmade #writing #readingcommunity

Honored to have a poem among this stellar group of Back to School poems! Thank you so much for including me, Brian!

New notebooks incoming—and an Etsy sale too! ✨ 25% off all items in my shop this Labor Day Weekend, including these new handmade notebooks! 📚 See the sale here: www.etsy.com/shop/Nautilu... #etsy #handmade #notebooks #WritingCommunity #crafts

If you write for kids, check out these submission opportunities: ✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future) ✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social‬ (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!) ✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)

⭐⭐THEME ANNOUNCEMENT⭐⭐ Submissions for Issue 12 will open on Monday, August 18th - September 22nd. The theme for this issue will be... Better Together: A Celebration of Community & Collective Action For this issue, we want to showcase the ways we make the world better by working together. 1/4

🎉 Submissions for our autumn/winter issue are now officially open! Send us your #kidlit and #YA #writing and #illustrations now - closing date 14 September. Details below 👇👀 paperboundmag.com/submit

Three galaxies swirling around black holes 🌀🌀🌀 A little paper marbling experiment for Marbled Monday 🎨 #crafts #art #handmade

Hard to believe the first day of school is here already for some kids! Resharing my short poem video about the excitement of the new school year! 🚌✏️ Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/sJ4r5... #BackToSchool #poetry #kidlit

I have a new short poem video for kids! In this video I illustrated my poem Tic-Tac-Toe Tactics. Join the silly battle of wits! 🧠 #poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit #kidlitart Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/grzHH...

Big thanks to @brianmosespoet.bsky.social for letting me loose on his blog. Also 👏 to @theemmapress.bsky.social Tyger Tyger and The Dirigible Balloon. brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1 #kidlit #childrenspoetry

Are there any books that you return to again and again for inspiration? One of mine is Supposing…, an oddball book of #kidlit prose poems by Alastair Reid. #poetry

From marbled hearts to abstract art 💜❤️ Playing with droppers and a stylus to try out some abstract shapes in the marbling tray 🎨🌀 Happy Marbled Monday! #marbling #crafts #handmade

I love this #picturebook by Hyewon Yum. It’s a brilliant story about making friends and embracing the things that make us unique. A book I’ve read and re-read multiple times. ✨ #kidlit