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@kayeb.bsky.social
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Picture Book author living on Wadawurrung Country. Visit my website
https://kayebaillie.com/
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Inked Voices
about 2 months ago
ANNOUNCEMENT! We've been working hard behind the scenes this year to revamp our approach to our scholarship program. It's now ready and applications for our 2026 scholarship program are LIVE!
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Kirsten W. Larson
2 months ago
Revise your nonfiction picture book with me in a small-group Inked Voices workshop!
@inkedvoices.bsky.social
🗓️ Jan 7–Mar 22, 2026 Apply by Nov 2, 2025 Two rounds of critique plus craft discussion. 🔗 https://app.inkedvoices.com/event/workshop/458
#KidLit
#NonfictionPB
#WritingCommunity
#PictureBook
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If you're looking for a fun spooky
#picturebook
for little ones this
#halloween
#ThereWasAYoungZombieWhoSwallowedAWorm
written by me, illustrated by
#DianeEwen
published
#macmillankidsUK
is a beauty!
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3 months ago
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K.R. / Kate Thompson, Children’s Author
5 months ago
🕵️♂️New book alert!🕵️♂️Do YOU have a little detective in your life? The Werelock & Scratch Detective Agency needs their help to crack the case! Perfect for readers 7+, with interactive puzzles, clues & riddles galore! Out 25/09. Pre-order to join the crime-busting fun!
geni.us/xlkwlt
#KidLitUK
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CathyBreisacher
7 months ago
My first book of the summer, and what a delightful read it was! My heart is feeling all the feels after reading this one. Beth Ferry is truly a wordsmith, and the Fan Brothers brought her characters to life in such an adorable, heartwarming way. Go get your copy today!
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Kristine Ada Carter
7 months ago
Oh my goodness, just finished with literary agent's
@allidh.bsky.social
stellar writing workshop through
@inkedvoices.bsky.social
. Alli provided the best discussion prompts, offered deep insights into our manuscripts, and answered our many burning questions.
#writing
#revising
#writingcommunity
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Essie White
7 months ago
I'm fortunate to work w/ talented
#kidlit
creators like illustrator
@hloweart.bsky.social
who continues to do amazing work & brings beautiful, meaningful picture books to life like POH POH'S SWORD by Julia Hune-Brown.
#Immigration
#PB
published by
@secondstory.bsky.social
@stormliterary.bsky.social
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
7 months ago
More good news from
#KidLitChat
: Congrats to
@hannaneier.bsky.social
on selling her middle grade mss to
#FeiwelFriends
.
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Thank you for including our book
#therewasayoungzombiewhoswallowedaworm
!
@stormliterary.bsky.social
@lernerbooks.bsky.social
#zombie
#humor
#picturebooks
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7 months ago
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School Library Journal
7 months ago
From conservation and recycling to a simple appreciation of nature, these books provide a greater understanding of the world and our place in it. "No Planet B: Books on Climate Change and Environmental Activism | Great Books"
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No Planet B: Books on Climate Change and Environmental Activism | Great Books
From conservation and recycling to a simple appreciation of nature, these books provide a greater understanding of the world and our place in it.
https://www.slj.com/story/no-planet-b-books-on-climate-change-and-environmental-activism-great-books
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Ms. Kratz
7 months ago
Looking to see if there’s a 🧞♂️around looking to grant a wish✨ I found out I will be teaching 1st grade next year🫶🏻 In turn I will be moving rooms. In 1st grade the calendar is taught daily. I need one to use with my littles. Any help is truly appreciated 💙 Thank you🥹
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Gracie Perez
7 months ago
Goodmorning everyone❤️I finished my 3rd year of teaching😍I’m thankful that I’ll still be teaching Kinder next year🩷I have started creating a list of items that I’ll be needing for next school year❤️Any help or RT is greatly appreciated 🫶
#clearthelist
#Kinder
#title1
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Gracie Perez
7 months ago
Goodmorning🩷I’m a Kinder teacher from Texas😍I I officially finished my 3rd year of teaching❤️ I’m preparing for next year❤️Any help or RT is greatly appreciated🫶
#clearthelist
#title1
#Kinder
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Pragmatic Mom
7 months ago
Newly Updated! Pollination: Gorgeous Video and Ideas for Summer Learning
buff.ly/AQD9q7m
via @pragmaticmom @SusanEdwardsRichmond
#ReadYourWorld
#pollination
#picturebooks
#STEM
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Pollination: Gorgeous Video and Ideas for Summer Learning
Ideas to use this video on pollination into a fun summer science experiments: raising butterfies, books and more.
https://buff.ly/AQD9q7m
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Sarah Lovell
9 months ago
Really excited to be the winner of the
@scbwi.bsky.social
draw This march challenge . The prompt was ‘wild things’ and I was so pleased to see my entry on the winners page of their website :)
#drawing
#illustration
#scbwidrawthis
#wildthings
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MK Gaudet
10 months ago
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Audrey Perrott (she/her)
9 months ago
The BAA HAA Book Birthday Baaaaash Tour continues this Saturday in Asheville, NC!
#KidLit
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Dylan Meconis
10 months ago
I finally got to draw one of my signature penguins on a book cover. Blessings upon the whole History Smashers team for this opportunity 🙏
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Pragmatic Mom
10 months ago
Newly Updated! 11 Picture Books to Teach Idioms
buff.ly/RhJaBT8
via @pragmaticmom
#ReadYourWorld
#picturebooks
#idioms
#figurativelanguage
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11 Picture Books to Teach Idioms - Pragmatic Mom
7 Picture Books to Teach Idioms. This list is inspired by Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime!, a picture book about boxing idioms.
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
10 months ago
Thanks again to those who answered my
#IndustryPolls
earlier this year! As promised, here's Part 1 of the results: How Freelance Illustrators Find Work -
debbieohi.com/2025/03/surv...
#KidLit
#KidLitArtists
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Steph Lau (she/her)
10 months ago
Curious how many queries it took for me to find my agent,
@allielevick.bsky.social
? Read my interview on the 12x12 blog, where I share a numerical breakdown of query letters vs. rejections/requests/offers, my unhinged reaction to "the e-mail before the call", and a bit about my journey to
#kidlit
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Ame Dyckman
10 months ago
I WANNA STEAL HIS DINOS SHIRT. 😈! (NO, I’d NEVER do that. ‘Cause it wouldn’t fit. 😂😂😂!) Seriously, THANKS for the
#BookLove
,
@onewheeloneil.bsky.social
and l’il Book Buddy! 😊❤️🦖🦕! DON’T GO EXTINCT!
#kidlit
@jennharknee.bsky.social
@littlebrownyr.bsky.social
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Charlene Chua
10 months ago
Happy
#BookBirthday
to Hocus and Pocus and the Dragon Next Door (book 2) Magical puppies Hocus and Pocus have a new neighbor: Bye-Bye the dragon! Will they all be friends? Available now in paperback & hardcover!
#kidlit
#candlewick
#arcapetta
!
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Debra Kempf Shumaker
10 months ago
Thrilled with this delightful recommendation for our
#picturebook
WIND IS A DANCE in Washington Parent's "What to Read: What's Happening with the Weather" article. Check this out
@joseebisaillon.bsky.social
!
@kidscanpress.bsky.social
washingtonparent.com/what-to-read...
#weather
#wind
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What to Read: What’s Happening With the Weather?
Explore books on extreme weather, climate change, and natural disasters for kids and teens—engaging reads that inform and inspire.
https://washingtonparent.com/what-to-read-whats-happening-with-the-weather/
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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉
10 months ago
🤩💫🥳 It's a *gorgeous* cover reveal for my next book SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story! I'm infinitely lucky to have the magical opportunity to create this book with illustrator
#ThaiMyPhuong
, published by Flamingo Books/PRH!
@thecatagency.bsky.social
@penguinkids.bsky.social
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Laura Lavoie
10 months ago
I had a great time today reading to so many classrooms of kids as part of Read Across America Week with
@randomhousekids.bsky.social
! If you joined me & Ashley Belote, we hope you had as much fun for Rhyme Time Tuesday as we did!
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Kate Messner
10 months ago
Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Boise, and Harrisburg, PA friends, I'm headed your way next week for the History Smashers Book Tour! There will be stories, trivia contests, and lots of myth smashing. Hope you'll bring the family & join us!
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
11 months ago
For those who care about what's happening in the world but sometimes need a break, I've updated my
#Uplift
feed:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
11 months ago
For those who sometimes need a break from what's happening in the world, feel free to follow my
#Uplift
feed:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
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Vivian Kirkfield
11 months ago
Just created a birthday fundraiser on FB like I've done every year since my husband passed away. The Stuart Kirkfield Scholarship at
@highlightsfound.bsky.social
was spearheaded by
@mmarshallauthor.bsky.social
& Sherri Jones Rivers.
www.highlightsfoundation.org/stuart-kirkf...
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Magnificent find in
#warrnambool
by artist @jimmi_buscombe_artist
#yellowtailedblackcockatoo
11 months ago
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Mindy Alyse Weiss
11 months ago
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/...
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Anna Raff
11 months ago
As today's guest blogger for
@taralazar.bsky.social
's
#Storystorm
today, I give a behind-the-scenes peek at my character-building brainstorming for our picture book collaboration, PARTY ANIMALS.
taralazar.com/2025/01/30/s...
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Anna Raff
11 months ago
It’s a book! A bunch of books! In a box!
#PartyAnimals
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Children's Bookshelf
11 months ago
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for most distinguished beginning reader books goes to VACATION by Ame Dyckman, illus. by Mark Teague
#ALAyma
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John Schu
11 months ago
Congratulations,
@amedyckman.bsky.social
and Mark Teague!
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Congratulations you marvellous creative super special person!! So happy for your fabulous achievement!!
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11 months ago
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
11 months ago
Woohoo! Just received confirmation from
@jpchanda.bsky.social
that his account really IS his. Justin Chanda gave me my 1st big break when he discovered my work at a
@scbwi.bsky.social
Portfolio Showcase in 2010, asked me to illustrate I’M BORED (written by
@michaelianblack.bsky.social
).
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Ame Dyckman
11 months ago
THANK YOU for doing this,
@kidlitforla.bsky.social
! SUCH A GOOD CAUSE! ❤️🩹📚!
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Valerie Bolling
11 months ago
I'm looking forward to hosting this Black Voices retreat again with Jas Hammonds
@highlightsfound.bsky.social
. I hope you can join us! Register here:
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/bla...
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Valerie Bolling
11 months ago
Thanks for sharing this,
@mstewartscience.bsky.social
! Thanks,
@slj.com
, for including
#ISeeColor
!
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margosorenson
11 months ago
A punny time with aloha and rethinking that old manuscript:
taralazar.com/2025/01/23/s...
#authors
#EduSky
#writing
#picturebooks
#Hawaii
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Storystorm 2025 Day 23: Margo Sorenson Rethinks and Repurposes Gems
by Margo Leipua’ala Sorenson Rejection! Rejection! Rejection! Poor Little Cup—no one wanted to publish his story. *cue sobbing* Here was the pitch: “Everyone in the kitchen has a very important job…
https://taralazar.com/2025/01/23/storystorm-2025-day-23/
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Thank you for sharing! 🍪🧡@tstrawberrypost.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Katie Mazeika
12 months ago
Recieved a unexpected holiday surprise from my editor-two early copies of MAYBE JUST ASK ME! Available April 22 from
@ssedlib.bsky.social
(but you can pre-order a copy now!)
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Katie Mazeika
11 months ago
I have participated in Storystorm for years, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to share some of my own inspiration here today! Thank you
@taralazar.bsky.social
@simonkids.bsky.social
taralazar.com/2025/01/20/s...
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Storystorm 2025 Day 20: Katie Mazeika Consults Her Younger Self
by Katie Mazeika Howdy Storystormers! I’m going to tell you a little about my childhood and hopefully it’ll help you come up with an idea for a story for the kid you used to be. I had cancer and lo…
https://taralazar.com/2025/01/20/storystorm-2025-day-20/
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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge
11 months ago
From conferences to exhibit halls to informal meetups to baby onesies, the #12x12PB Community is there for each other! You'll never write or attend an event alone again - if you join us!
12x12challenge.com/m...
#12x12PB
#kidlit
#kidlitart
#writingcommunity
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11 months ago
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event
about 1 year ago
Exciting news,
#BluePit
is opening up to the wider storytelling community! Creators in the
#gamedev
,
#ttrpg
, and
#comic
communities are now welcome to pitch their projects during our first pitch event. With this announcement comes two new cohosts
@jadeblack21.bsky.social
and
@feyearth.bsky.social
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Mindy Alyse Weiss
12 months ago
Yay! Thanks for sharing,
@fraudrk.bsky.social
. I have a feeling we'll have tons of discussion fun and connections on our
#PBParty
BlueSky party this year! I can't wait!
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
12 months ago
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#Uplift
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