Here's to a new year of great Canadian picture books! Please follow our 2026 authors & illustrators on Bluesky who are participating in Picture Books, Eh! Check out our Starter Pack below! Anyone interested in joining our little co-promotional community can get in touch at [email protected].

A little something I wrote for the @picturebookseh.bsky.social blog as we're all having our end of the year reflections: picturebookseh.weebly.com/blog/when-le...

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening in whatever voice you have in whatever way you can

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

Happy #Kidlitartpostcard Day!✨🎨 I'm Alexis, a Chinese-Filipino illustrator based in Toronto. I'm currently looking for MG/YA book cover and picture book projects! Check out my portfolio at alexisyoungart.com! For kidlit inquiries, please contact my wonderful agent @christiemegill.bsky.social !🐱

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Nicole Allin, a Vancouver-based illustrator open to new projects and also seeking representation! I wish all of you a Happy Holiday season and may all of your cats behave! 🎨 www.allinart.net #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

Happy #kidlitartpostcard from Sledi Yeti! ⛄️I’m Adriane and I enjoy illustrating cuddly creatures and whimsical scenes that bring child-like wonder to life. I am available for picture books, board books, and covers! ❄️ Rep’d by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social [email protected] ❄️ adrianetsai.com

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Same agent, new agency! My agent @jemiscoe.bsky.social has cofounded @starlingliterary.bsky.social and I’m excited to see where we go. If you’d like to learn more about what they’re offer, or work together, check them out! #art #kidlitart #illustration

Hi #kidlitartpostcard day! ❄️ I’m Tori & I love creating fun, silly & heartwarming characters - animals and human! Interested & open for work in PB & BoardBooks Represented by Analía Cabello @analiacabello.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social More artwork @ torikateillustration.com

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.

Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.

Reminder for anyone looking at their calendar + trying to figure out how to hit those writing / creative goals you made for 2025: It's okay to adjust in order to take care of you. You are more important than your work. Sending everyone gentle positive vibes as we head into the winter season. ❄️

New books on the way from @caseylyall.bsky.social @abhialwar.bsky.social @kslivensky.bsky.social + more buff.ly/sH63snu

Book news alert! 🎉 Detective Baby is a new picture book written by me, illustrated by the awesome Abhi Alwar, and to be published by Sourcebooks Kids in spring 2028! Working with Jenne Abramowitz has been so much fun already! And a huge thank you as always to my wonderful agent, Molly Ker Hawn!

i've said it before and i'll say it again, if you can't be bothered to read what i wrote and you'd rather let a machine tell you what it said, i'd rather you didn't read it at all

Thank you so much to @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social for selecting The League of Littles as one of their Best Books for Kids & Teens for Fall 2025. (@sarafaber.bsky.social!) It's an honour to be included with such an amazing group of authors and illustrators. bookcentre.ca/collections/...

Laurie Keller and I have been working on a new picture book and today we get to share the cover! Get ready for... I USED TO BE A DINOSAUR This book has been so much fun to work on and Laurie's artwork is going to have you all laughing out loud. We can't wait to share this grumpy chicken with you!

Happy #IReadCanadian Day! #IReadCanadianDay

It's cover reveal day! @sarafaber.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for the next book in the League of Littles series: THE BAND OF BIGS! The Band of Bigs hits shelves on June 23rd, 2026 from Greenwillow Books. Available to preorder now! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Vampire Jam Sandwich is a bestseller!!! Beyond excited to see it made the CBC's list of top ten bestselling Canadian children's books for the week of October 11th-18th. (Bit belated with this news, but still! YAY!!!) Tagging @nicigregory.bsky.social so we can cheer!!! 🍓❤️🍓

50/50 Raffle Alert! OLA is kicking off our first ever 50/50 raffle in support of the Forest. Buy your tickets before Oct 16th to qualify for our Early Bird Prize, or by the end of October to be entered into our Grand Prize draw on Halloween! www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/fores... Licence # RAF1467210

Every tenant in Ontario will be at risk of losing their home if Premier Doug Ford’s government follows through on its latest housing plan, advocates are warning.

Happening today!

It's cover reveal day! Whale, That Was Unexpected, written by me, illustrated by the amazing Kathryn Durst, and published by Tundra Books! Coming to bookshelves near you on June 30th, 2026! Now available to pre-order anywhere books are sold - shop indie! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726562...

Vampire Jam Sandwich was featured on CTV Your Morning! Thank you to Vikki VanSickle for including it in her list of Halloween reads! You can watch the segment by going to CTV dot com and watching the October 20th edition of CTV Your Morning. The book chat starts around the 1:20:00 mark. 🎃

On Saturday, October 25th at 1:30 pm, I'll be at Lake House Books in Port Stanley with Judy Ann Sadler and Barbara Haworth-Attard. We'll be reading from our latest books, followed by a signing. Hope to see you there! Lake House Books is located at 302 Bridge Street in Port Stanley. Shop indie!

Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps: (1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time. Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit

Did you know that ALL youth events at #VWF2025 are available to watch live on our YouTube channel? Get your free tickets by choosing the livestream option on our website! writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

I had the pleasure of chatting with Seasons of Kidlit about how the story of Vampire Jam Sandwich came to be. Check it out and enter to win a signed copy! www.seasonsofkidlit.com/post/trick-o...

Very excited to see Vampire Jam Sandwich on this list of Sweetly Spooky Stories for Halloween from Kirkus Reviews! Check out the full list for some awesome recommendations: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/s...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Join us for the summer edition of the Great Canadian Picture Book Party this Monday at 7 pm! I'll be bringing the spooky fun with a reading of Vampire Jam Sandwich! Hope to see you there! (Write to [email protected] for the link!)

Save the date! I'll be at Telling Tales on Sunday, October 5th at 11:15 am in the Read Together tent followed by an autograph session at 11:30 am at the Different Drummer Books tent. If you see me there, say hi! I'll be carrying a bag full of jammy swag to give away. 😀🍓

Next Great Canadian Picture Book Party happening Monday Sept 29 at 7 pm on Zoom! Hear new #cankidlit read by the creators, with surprise 🇨🇦 musical guest! Look for the @canscaip.bsky.social invite or write to [email protected] for the link. #canlit @debbieohi.com @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social

Loved seeing The League of Littles on this list from Book Riot of 'Best New Comic Books and Funny Reads for Kids' [@sarafaber.bsky.social, @harperkids.bsky.social] bookriot.com/best-new-com...

Fave book of the week: VAMPIRE JAM SANDWICH by @caseylyall.bsky.social and @nicigregory.bsky.social Beyond original and adorable. #booksky #kidlit #halloween #donttrustterrence

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

Delighted that WAKING THE DEAD AND OTHER FUN ACTIVITIES has been nominated for a CCBC Book Award! It's joined by some immense company for the Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Thank you to The Canadian Children's Book Centre and the award committee! I'm honoured to be included.

This is terrible. The fact that it's Bell Canada doing it isn't surprising, but no less disheartening. I also doubt anyone participating is asking questions - like, what are you agreeing to by letting Bell Canada scan your image to "create" this portrait? How can they use it? Where? For how long?

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

i don't even want to see screenshots of chatgpt or whatever being bad at things, stop voluntarily using it for anythingggg you are just a number in their proof-of-use argument

My kingdom for a KPop Demon Hunters DVD with: behind the scenes featurettes with interviews with the voice actors and singers and storyboarders and animators, plus commentary, a sing-along version, and dance tutorials, and animated bloopers. I want the full Lord of the Rings DVD treatment please.

I'm currently running a giveaway for The League of Littles over on Instagram - no one has entered yet so you should because your odds will be pretty good! 😊 www.instagram.com/p/DMkjbihOSiT/

If you are an independent Canadian bookstore or comic bookstore and you would like book swag to go with your copies of these books, please give me a shout. I have character card packs available for The League of Littles and swag packs for Vampire Jam Sandwich. Reply here or message me!