As of last Thursday, I’m officially out on sub for the first time! 🥳 Thrilled to be repped by @juliebookagent.bsky.social at @steelworksliterary.bsky.social! Now it’s back to my creative routine…read, write, repeat! 📚📝 #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🎃 Support your local library and sink your teeth into a book!

Whale Rock Literary Workshop's Fall Fundraiser is live! Lots of great opportunities for manuscript critiques, craft support sessions, etc with kidlit writers, editors, and agents. Check it out here! @sharibecker.bsky.social www.whalerockworkshops.com/fall-fundrai...

Welcome to SteelWorks, Kathy Fork! We can’t wait to share her memorable characters and stories full of humor and heart. A former teacher and librarian, Kathy has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. Kathy is represented by Julie Romeis Sanders. #kidlit

Absolutely thrilled to share this news! I couldn’t have asked to team up with a better agent and agency! @juliebookagent.bsky.social @steelworksliterary.bsky.social More info at my IG account @babyfork

What a thrill to hear one of my favorite author-illustrators, Jon Klassen, read The Skull and discuss it and his other work at Womb House Books in Oakland. There should be more adult book club events featuring kidlit!

Cozy fall picture book vibes at Word After Word Books in Truckee, CA. 🍂🍁📚🍁🍂

Having fun with Mike Lowery’s “Big List of Spooky Sketch Book Stuff” for the month of October. Today’s prompt was “a spooky bat.” Maybe mine is more cute bat…rhymes with fruit bat! A doodle a day keeps the doldrums away!

‘Tis the season for spooky picture books! 👻🎃☠️ Here’s a nice selection at Grass Roots Books in Corvallis, Oregon. (And I’ve got a manuscript that would fit perfectly in that empty spot!) 🧙‍♀️

I read and reread Harriet the Spy when I was a kid. Harriet’s routine included drinking an egg cream at her favorite luncheonette. Finally tried one at Junior’s in NYC. An egg cream contains no egg or cream. It’s made with seltzer water, milk and Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup. It was good!

A monstrously good selection of picture books at Alice’s Little Haunted Bookshop in Olde Mistick Village!

Bring your young and future readers on September 13th for a special storytime with Liz Garton Scanlon where she'll be reading her newest picture book, BIG LITTLE BABY. More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @lizgardensalad.bsky.social

I just won another honorable mention in #PBParty! 🥳 I now have four: 2025, 2024, 2022, and 2021. Over 1,000 entries are received each year, and my picture books have consistently placed in the top tier. Thanks for running this fantastic contest, @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social & judges! #amquerying

Send an electronic #DrawnToFreedom postcard to your local library to let them know you support them and the freedom to read. Your message can be a powerful tool to build support for libraries. The form is live now—you don’t have to wait for #RightToReadDay! uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

🎧 Listen to the podcast! Children's book authors @aidawrites.bsky.social, @lauragleestudio.bsky.social & Mac Barnett, the Library of Congress’s new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the vital role of picture books in literacy.

If you’re a SCBWI member you can register to get access to watch the film and attend an online Q&A with Yuyi Morales on April 5. 🌷

It is beyond disappointing that Texas State Senator Royce West—one of only two Democrats on the Senate Committee on Education K-16—voted in favor of book-banning SB13. What was he thinking? If you're his constituent & you appreciate the freedom to read, ASK HIM. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/05/t...

“Everyone should be able to find something on the shelf that reflects their experience, their identity and their beliefs — and we’re seeing that attacked as a concept.” — Deborah Caldwell-Stone, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom #UniteAgainstBookBans www.texastribune.org/2025/03/05/t...

Creating and Protecting Unknowable Connections in Children’s Literature: bit.ly/4hX6I5j #AAASLkq

Hi #picturebook friends! Just a reminder that the #valentiny and #sillylovesonnets contests are both going on right now with a deadline of 2/14 at 11:59 pm - in case you need a little break from stalking #PBParty for updates. 😂🙃

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?...

I love StoryStorm! I now have 31 new picture book ideas to explore!🥳

Here we go again! Submitted my #pbparty 2025 entry! I was a semi-finalist in 2022 and won honorable mentions in 2021 & 2024. Hoping this is finally my year! Thanks to @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social , @sylviaichen.bsky.social and all the judges for their hard work & making this great contest happen!

Hey Friends... Writing is hard. Writing careers are, too. Pull up a chair and let's talk. You're among friends... whalerockworkshops.corsizio.com/event/671bff... @audrey-vernick.bsky.social

Anti-freedom to read legislation is not a niche issue, y'all. It's a bellwether. It's a tell. It's anti-education and anti-empowerment. It's anti-exploration, anti-other, anti-empathy. And it's anti-honesty. Keeping an eye on -- and speaking up against -- this legislation is part of the resistance.

Hello! So sick of the guy(s) behind the other big socials, I'm here to try this out. Here's an owl drawing to kick things off.

The Kidlit for Los Angeles auction is NOW OPEN! We have more than 340 INCREDIBLE items from top authors, illustrators, editors, agents and publishing professionals. You don’t want to miss out! Go bid here: www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles Auction runs Jan 20th - Jan 26th. #kidlit

⭐️🎉BOOK #GIVEAWAY🎉!⭐️ 3 WINNERS will get TWO copies of our not-even-out-yet: 🐥DUCKIE & SNAPS🐊 #1: WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS! 📝 by me, 🎨 by #TimMiller! Orchard 📚, Scholastic, 2/4/25! Keep one, give one to a friend! JUST REPOST to enter to win! 3 random winners: 9 PM EST MON 1/27/25! 🍀, ALL! 😄! #kidlit

Here are 22 books about the civil rights movement – and the continued fight for civil rights – to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a legendary civil rights leader! Perfect for today or any day of the year 📚

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.

That’s a wrap on The Dark is Rising Readathon! I think this will become a new winter solstice tradition!

The Dark is Rising Worldwide Readathon - Day 4: “The Walker on the Old Way.” Anyone else reading along?

The coolest most metal hummingbird!❄️🤘❄️

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

Happy Winter Solstice!

Happy Midwinter’s Eve! Today is the day to join the Dark is Rising Worldwide Readathon! Read along in real time over the next 12 days. Or listen to this free BBC audio adaptation. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Copperfield’s Books in San Rafael has a lovely gift wrapping station where you can wrap your purchases for free. I love this! 📚🎁

Teachers & librarians! Want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day? Here's all the information about how WRAD Zoom visits work, plus a list of over 300 author & illustrator volunteers! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...

Reposting this from Instagram Yuch Studio account, because, though I did start my art career close to 49 and know the importance of late start fully well, it’s nice to get reminded by someone else. Ok, it’s Sunday at 9pm, and I’m going back to work!

Oh, my darlings. It's almost here. The marathon of children's books of 2024. You ain't seen nothing like this before! Get ready for 31 Days, 31 Lists, starting December 1st! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/11/30/i...

For small business Saturday, check out Whale Rock Literary Workshops one-day-only deal! Purchase a $500 voucher for only $450! whalerockworkshops.corsizio.com/event/673c11...