It has been one week since The Line published. Thank you all for the love! Thanks Scholastic for the card&cookies. You must have known I love my SNAX! 😂 ⭐️ The Line is OUT NOW ⭐️ 🩷 Written Swapna Haddow @swapnahaddow.bsky.social 🩷 Published @scholasticuk.bsky.social 🩷 Illustrated @fawa.bsky.social

Shh! Don’t wake the mountain! #illustration #kidlit #kidlitart

#SmallPitch is the 1st pitch event to focus on small presses. Goal: to help authors find a home for their work & also to promote small presses as an important actor of the publishing industry. Follow @smallpitch.org for more info. #KidLit #WriterSky

Celebrate Alice In Wonderland Day on July 4 to commemorate the date that Lewis Carroll first told his beloved story "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to Alice Liddell. Here are retellings of the classic story. Book lists in ALT text. #aliceinwonderlandday #aliceinwonderland #retellings #booksky

July is art market season! Had a fun day at Gorge on Art. Now I am getting ready for the Esquimalt Urban Arts tour tomorrow. You will also find @smacartney.bsky.social Val Lawton and Lorraine Murray in the same garden with art and picturebooks. #artmarkets #scbwiillustrator #yyjart www.annelyso.com

Join us tonight!

This time last Tuesday 😜🩷 🦩 Speak soon x • #kidlitart #summershow #flamingoillustration #flamingo #childrenbooks

My debut picture book The Balloonimals was published today🎈Spread smiles. Be friends. Send love. Feel the feels. Make it super silly.📚👍

Accidentally took a half-year bluesky break (forgot my password, etc) during which we announced that I came out of Baby-sitters Club retirement. SUPER SPECIAL # 1: BABY-SITTERS ON BOARD! (Co-illustrated with @galegalligan.bsky.social!!) is coming your way 9/15/26! goraina.com/blog/2026/6/...

Option 1 & 2 for a storyline for the grandkids art. #kidlitart #illustration #picturebook #dinosaur

Summer events! Can’t wait to see all you folks on Vancouver Island! 🍃 🌼 🐝 🦋 📚

Where is this orange going?? 🍊🧳

#kidlitart #picturebook #cat #dinosaur Yesterday I showed the 2 pix from my grandkids that I thought combined could be a great story. Here is option #1. More to follow!

A friendly heads-up that the next Portfolio Chats are coming up next week, and I will have *two spots* available. Check Owen Davey's Instagram to know when Booking is live. These free sessions are for marginalized and underrepresented communities. #kidlitart #illustration #portfolio

#kidlit #illustration #dinosaur #cat #picturebook This morning I was trying to think up some possible story ideas and saw these two art pieces from two different grandkids taped to my wall. Now that could be an interesting story!

Hi! My commissions are now open! I’ve decided not to overthink it (or tried) Please let me know your thoughts, your support means a lot even if it’s just sharing your opinion💕 it feels good to be offering them again but I also feel a bit out of place #commissions #art ko-fi.com/bitingnclawi...

✨ Reminder: Teresa Robeson’s course Lean in, Pivot, Adapt is currently 25% off! A thoughtful, honest look at building a long-term publishing career—with lessons on resilience, growth, and adapting along the way. 📚 🔗 buff.ly/gPNdVNn #kidlit #12x12PB

Something big is brewing over at @bethandlisapod.bsky.social!

Big news! Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast *WILL* have more adventures - in #chapterbook form! (We’re gonna “milk” this series for all it’s worth!) #kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian

GOAL!!!

Thank you to the Vancouver Guardian for featuring me in their arts section! vancouverguardian.com/vancouver-ar...

Made a little poster/flyer for the no ai protest coming up June 27th. Had a lot of fun drawing all the little guys in the crowd ☺️ #noai

How a small Canadian publisher is resisting the AI book wave www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We at #PBSummit are sad to say goodbye to literary legend Jane Yolen. She was a keynote speaker at our second Summit. We learned so much from her and will always miss her. #kidlit #kidlitart

Got a really lovely review for my upcoming (Sept 2026) book from Kirkus today! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... "...How to make new friends but keep the old? Marko proves that the real and imaginary can both be gold." (Graphic fiction. 6-8) #KidLit #CanKidLit

Thanks to the Caldecott committee for honoring EVERY MONDAY MABEL!! @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social And thanks to @simonkids.bsky.social for or helping Mabel find her people! And a special thanks to readers of all ages who connected with a little kid who just wants to see the garbage truck 💚

this book accurately captures the extreme joy of Garbage Truck, I heartily recommend it www.simonandschuster.com/books/Every-...

AUTHORS! Do not, without the explicit permission of an illustrator, upload the art from your book into any AI system to create content like trailers for your book. I cannot believe this needs to be said AND HERE WE ARE.

Registration for the virtual SCBWI 2026 Summer Conference opens TOMORROW June 11 @ 10AM PST!! 🤗 🎉 ⁠ View the entire line up on our website here: www.scbwi.org/events/virtual-summer-conference-2026 ⁠ (and HUGE SHOUT OUT to Heegyum Kim who illustrated our beautiful conference artwork) ⁠

Writers, mid-month submission deadlines are coming up at @fahmidangroup.bsky.social, @superpresent.bsky.social, @phillychapbook.bsky.social, @zoeticpress.bsky.social, @variantlit.bsky.social, and more indie publishers! Find details here: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Don't mind me, I just found a good excuse to repost my Majora's Mask saga with the new 10 photos feature.

We're looking for book reviewers for upcoming titles. If you love books, hate AI, have a yen for anything “speculative” (fiction or non-fiction), and have somewhere you regularly post, get in touch. woodpigpress.com/reviewers #booksky #reviews #scifi #fantasy Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash

Hi friends! This awesome coffeehouse/indie book store near me held an art contest and I entered! … go vote! :) www.instagram.com/p/DZTXJPYiWZ...

Hello Canada West! Join our very own Karen Spafford-Fitz as she presents on hi-lo books: accessible novels for kids. Explore the core elements of a hi-lo book, lean into crafting hi-lo fiction, and gain information about publishers acquiring hi-lo. #kidlit #SCBWI www.scbwi.org/events/canad...

Happy 5th Anniversary of #kidlitartpostcard day! I am posting a little late. I was helping my parents move on Thursday so it is only fitting that this image is inspired by a trip we took when I was little to Vancouver Island--where it rains a lot . . .

I'm excited to share the announcement for my next picture book: SNOW DAY WITH DADDY will be published Winter 2028 from Christy Ottaviano Books / @littlebrownyr.bsky.social Inspired by my dad and snowy winters growing up in New England. A big thank you to my agent @mccarthylit.com ❄️ #kidlit

Late in the day, but can’t miss #kidlitartpostcard drawing of #measachild :) always ready to play outside! #Canadawestillustrators #scbwiillustrator #childhoodillustration #playoutside rep’d by @essiewhite.bsky.social

Happy June, #kidlitartpostcard peoples! I'm SC Watson - I do freelance illustration. Currently looking for new picture book and middle grade clients & projects. I am also currently looking for representation. 📌 [email protected] 📌 www.scwatsonart.com/childrens

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! 👒🌸 deeclarade.com #kidlit #kidlitpostcard

Hello! Happy 5th year #KidLitArtPostcard 🎉 I'm Ada, I'm a Filipino freelance illustrator looking for PB, MG, YA or any illustration work. Represented by Pyro Represents 📨: [email protected] 🎨: adaabigael.weebly.com

Hey #kidlitartpostcard day! I spent most of my infancy in a body cast. When I got it off, I couldn’t walk yet, let along get down a slide by myself, but I was sure excited at the possibilities! I am Deborah Paquette and I am looking for representation.

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I write and illustrate board books, picture books, readers, and comics. I love quirky characters and projects that let me show a range of emotions. Rep’d by Jamie Weiss Chilton, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. #kidlitillustration @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard day, I'm Mike! For this month's theme of us as kids, here's Jr. High me working on one of my favorite hobbies, building and painting a spaceship model. I'm repped by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social See more at mdashow-kidlitart.carrd.co #kidLitArt #MilleniumFalcon #MeAsAKid

Wow, 5 years of #kidlitartpostcard! 🥳 I'm Cat, a Kid Lit Illustrator* This "You, as a kid" illustration is based on a true birthday party story 😅 *available for cover art. 🎨 Portfolio at catarinaoliveirastudio.com 💼 Rep'd by T2 Agency #kidlit #birthdayParty #kidlitart