I had the most fun today chatting with author Katelyn Aronson about two of her charming PB’s! Visit www.heatherdawntorres.com/blog for the full interview! @katelynaronson.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #picturebooks #authorinterview #PictureBookPlaces

EGADS, an 'exciting conversation'! (Can I be exciting after 15 hours of flights & layovers?😵‍💫!) In any case, I'm excitED for sure. See you soon, Vegas. 😅❤️ #NYRA #LasVegasBookFestival #LasVegas @pbpros.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @katelynaronson.bsky.social! 🎉 📚 CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH, illustrated by Benji Williams and published by Page Street Kids, is here!✨ Find it here: buff.ly/Td4EV8X #kidlit #12x12PB

Happy Book Birthday to @katelynaronson.bsky.social & Clovis Meets His Match!

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @katelynaronson.bsky.social! 🎉 📚 CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH, illustrated by Benji Williams and published by Page Street Kids, is here! 🐻✨ Find it here: buff.ly/PLnYGZq #kidlit #12x12PB

Sorry, Clovis. The answer’s NOPE. Buckle you’re seatbelt ‘cuz there’s more to learn, buddy! (And that’s why life is hard 😂). Out Tuesday: CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH by Katelyn Aronson, illustrated by #BenjiWilliams ☕️❤️🐃 @pbpros.bsky.social #clovis #clovismeetshismatch #clovisthebull #sel #kidlit

Check out @katelynaronson.bsky.social & Benji Williams's new book and Giveaway: CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH by Katelyn Aronson kathytemean.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b... #Giveaway #kidlit 📚👍

The star-reviewed ‘POO-DUNIT? A FOREST FLOOR MYSTERY’ has won the 2025 Nevada Young Readers Award! THANK YOU #NYRA !!! POO-RAY for this hilarious, rhyming #STEM mystery, chosen by the children! 🙌 And POO-RAY for silly, stinky science!🐭💩 #NYRA #poodunit #poodunnit #kidlit @pbpros.bsky.social

READY? With a glowing review from Kirkus, CLOVIS 3 drops Sept 16th! And sure… it’s about all those nice things Kirkus mentions but…TBH, if you wanna see #Clovis REALLY lose his cool this time, 😆 CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH is for you! ☕️🏈🐃 #kidlit #benjiwilliams #pagestreetkids @pbpros.bsky.social

☕️❤️🐃 #CLOVIS 3 is out in a matter of weeks & coming to a #barnesandnoble near you! Your favorite bull has a new enemy in #Cloverdale and theirs is a rivalry to remember! Illustrated by the talented #benjiwilliams and published by #pagestreetkids , #ClovisMeetsHisMatch releases September 15th!

I promote other authors and encourage aspiring authors because I believe those other authors are my colleagues, not my competition. Their success is necessary for mine, because it keeps the publishing industry alive and keeps people reading #books.

Happy Book Birthday! 🥳🎉 @katelynaronson.bsky.social @dowphumiruk.bsky.social

“the name Orpheline symbolizes the different ways we can feel ‘orphaned’ in our lives—bereft of someone or something—and how that drives us to belong to someone and/or want someone to belong to us.” @katelynaronson.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social

Thank you so much for the interview, Erin! Happy that Orpheline is out in the world today!⭐

#Orpheline is here at last, washing up on shores everywhere today! Will you give this #merbaby a home? 😍 Special thanks to editor #AndreaTompa at @candlewickpress.bsky.social & illustrator #DowPhumiruk and my agents Christa & Daniele at @McIntoshAndOtis for making #mermaid magic with me! 🧜‍♀️✨ #kidlit

Happy mer-magical #BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + 8 Qs with @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @dowphumiruk.bsky.social erindealey.com/book-birthda... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #KidlitSky #BookSky #summerreading

Happy Book Birthday @dowphumiruk.bsky.social --illustrator of ORPHELINE, written by @katelynaronson.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social It's mer-magical indeed! #PictureBooks #KidlitArtSky

Congrats to #12x12PB member @katelynaronson.bsky.social on her Book Birthday for her #picturebook, 📚ORPHELINE: A MERMAID LOST AND FOUND STORY, illustrated by @dowphumiruk.bsky.social and published by Candlewick Press! See her book and MANY more: buff.ly/Zlzmje0

Just 2 more sleeps until our #merbaby washes up on shores everywhere & hopefully finds a home on many bookshelves…🧜‍♀️✨🐚

This is wonderful🌟 Congrats @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @katelynaronson.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social

#MerMay announcement: ORPHELINE is out next month from @candlewickpress ! 🐚✨Pre-order by June 9th, let me know you did, & I’ll send you some #mermaid mail 💌 featuring @dowphumiruk ‘s luscious illustrations. 🤩🧜‍♀️ #orpheline #merbaby #newrelease #picturebook #mermail #kidlit #fairytale #folktale

Looks like they removed comments about ai — I guess given all the reports of nonpayment to contributors and now this, I have no value alignment with Cricket at all. When I think of all the time I spent reading and looking up to the magazine as a kid — very sad indeed

As a #boymom, books about poop are always among the most requested at storytime. Thanks to Poo-Dunnit by @katelynaronson.bsky.social my 3-yr-old can identify bear poop with more consistency than he can count to 10 😂

*Sound on* for the #coverreveal of CLOVIS 3 coming this September ✨ #Kidlit #ClovistheBull #Clovis #picturebook #Clovis3 #ClovisKeepsHisCool #ClovisMeetsHisMatch

“AI made art accessible” is like saying burglary made me having your tv accessible

So proud of you @candacespizzirri.bsky.social !!!

Merci beaucoup ❤️🙏

🥳 POO-DUNIT : my guaranteed giggle fest, star-reviewed #STEM #mystery for kids has released in paperback (just in time for spring in the forest)! WOOHOO🎉 Illustrated by Stephanie Laberis and published by Candlewick Press 🐭💩🌷 #Kidlit #Poodunit #picturebook @pbpros.bsky.social

Kirkus has spoken!✨And it’s a sparkling review for #Orpheline : A Mermaid Lost & Found tale! ✨🐚 Lushly illustrated by @DowPhumiruk.bsky.social & out from Candlewick June 10th, if you preorder, I’ll send you some #mermaid mail.🧜‍♀️ So let me know, friends!💜 #kidlit #newrelease #picturebook #merbaby

Some ways to support your favorite #authors: 📗Share on Social media 👭Tell a friend if you love a book 📘 Ask your library to buy a book 📚 Ask your indie bookstore to stock a book ✍️ Write reviews - lots of stars and a few sentences #BookSky #kindness #Friday

PB of the day. 📚👍

Thank you @lindsaybonilla.author for this pic of #Clovis 1 & 2 stocked at Barnes & Noble! The 3rd in the series, CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH (in which Clovis challenges a rival shopkeeper) will be out in Sept. Illustrated by #BenjiWilliams , it’s another keeper! ☕️❤️🐃 #KidLit #SEL @pbpros.bsky.social

Happy weekend, whether you celebrate #valentines #galentines or #palentines ! I love this holiday so much 💌 Fun fact: I was supposed to be born on Valentine’s Day (but was late to the party) & my dad originally wanted to name me Valentine. 😍 #KidLit #WhenPBMetJ #pbj #pbandj #peanutbutterandjelly

I literally lol-ed at the wordless spread in Poo-Dunit: A Forest Floor Mystery by @katelynaronson.bsky.social & illustrated by Stephanie Laberis. The book is brilliant! 💩

UPDATE: 🥳100 *valid* entries! Thanks to all who entered my #giveaway across BlueSky, Insta, and X! 🤗Random Number Generator selected "sandrain2nd" on X as my #winner ! CONGRATS Sandra! I will get in touch & send your #Clovis prizes! 🎁💌

Members get 25% off preorders thru Feb 7th on BarnesandNoble.com w/ code PREORDER25 ! If you pre-order ORPHELINE, please let me know below! I’ll get in touch & send you some custom swag as a thank you 🙏🧜‍♀️✨ #mermaid #babymermaid #kidlit #picturebook #folktale #fairytale

Last weekend to enter, #kidlit lovers! Enter across any of my social media platforms ❤️

@katelynaronson.bsky.social we had so much fun using PooDunnit at Forest School. The Poo-seum turned out fantastic and we love Stephanie Laberis' illustrations so much!

HEY #kidlit , #teacher , #librarian , #writer & #illustrator folk! This #Clovis #giveaway is for you! To enter: ❄️Like ❄️Follow ❄️Share 🔁 ❄️Tag a friend in the comments #Winner gets Clovis 1 & 2 + a bag of caramels (similar to Granny’s ☺️) #HappyNewYear #HappyWinter #HappyWeekend

Is anyone even talking about how Microsoft's AI could steal author's work just by using Word? There's so much going on right now, but it really concerns me as an author, editor and agent that we can't trust the word processing program we use to read manuscripts not to steal the text and train on it.

Spotted in the wild! CLOVIS SUSPECTS A SNEAK! I adore this beautiful book written by @MademoiselleK8 and illustrated by Benji Williams! ❤️

Did you know #12x12PB can help you polish your pitches? It's true! Our Pitch Elves @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @judysobanski.bsky.social are ready to help YOU polish & share pitches at upcoming pitch events! Join today! #skypitch #12x12PB #kidlit #amwriting #picturebook www.12x12challenge.c...#12x12PB#skypitch

Character-driven #picturebooks are some of the most popular books around! Let our 12 x 12 Fiction Elves @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @jbagan.bsky.social help you navigate this sought-after genre! Join 12 x 12 today! www.12x12challenge.c...#picturebooks #amwriting #picturebook #kidlit #12x12PB

Hey, there's a place to donate books to LA teachers who have lost their libraries once they're ready to receive them. Many thanks to the people who put this together. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A first peek at my new picture book ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story, lushly illustrated by @dowphumiruk.bsky.social & out from @candlewickpress.bsky.social this June! Head over to my YouTube channel KidLiterati to watch 💜🧜🏽‍♀️✨ 👉 youtu.be/tHSIn6x_Etg #mermaid #kidlit #picturebook

I’m so excited for this book!! Our mermaid story will be out in June 2025, written by the amazing Katelyn Aronson and illustrated by me! #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #art #artist #mermaid #Mermaidstory

✨🐚 Sound on 🐚✨ for the #CoverReveal of my next #picturebook out in June, illustrated by the talented @dowphumiruk.bsky.social & published by @candlewickpress.bsky.social …A modern-day #folktale dedicated to my mama and all those who still believe in mermaids.💜🧜🏽‍♀️ #kidlit #mermaid #siren #summer2025

🎅✨ Cover Reveal! ✨🎅 When Santa Wrote Back! (with words by me and illustrations by Pablo Pino) is coming down the chimney September 2, 2025. Available for pre-order now! hellonathan.ca 🎄📚 #KidLit #CoverReveal #PictureBooks #WritingCommunity

We've compiled a list of all upcoming pitch events on BlueSky! We've also created a Starter Pack for the accounts running these events: go.bsky.app/UzNMwUV Please let us know if there's any we missed! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmQuerying #Writers #AmWriting #LiteraryAgents #LitAgents

🎉Thank you to all #kidlit folk who entered my #giveaway ! Congratulations to my #winner, chosen by Random Number Generator… @gennie.bsky.social ! You’ve won Clovis 1 + Clovis 2! Please message me your address 💕🥳