Thinking about #amquerying in 2026? Gift yourself one of these last few spaces to help with any last minute polishing needs & to help strategize how to best position your work. #scbwi #KidLit #KidLitArt #amwriting #amillustrating #PB #MG #YA #illustration #WriterSky www.scbwi.org/events/easte...

What I’ve learned: you don’t need a single genre to have a voice. You need a reason to return to the page. Mine has been survival, memory, and leaving something behind that tells the truth. #WritingAsSurvival #CrossGenre

I can't find the @thetoypress.bsky.social's prompt of #Spread on here, but I'm all over it anyway. #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #WritingPrompt #PoetryForKids #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

#Poetry from our first issue, Taking A Stand: “Monsters” by @1storyteller.bsky.social, who joined our team prior to issue 2 as our Outreach Editor. This is a particularly fun one to read aloud, very lyrical! epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Excellent guest post by @rweberwrites.bsky.social on mental wellness and #KidLit smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

#KidLit writers! Time for #StoryStorm!

Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday centered around history, values, family, community, culture and food. Here are 24 picture books about Kwanzaa. Book lists in ALT text. #kwanzaa #kwanzaabooks #picturebooks #kidlit #booksky💙📚 #holidays #kwanzaaforkids #dec26 #december2025

Day #26: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Unique Biographies for Kids. If you're looking for proof that we are in a Golden Age of Children's Literature, look no further than this list. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/26/3...

In honor of the 1st day of Kwanzaa I’m sharing my essential Black Family Library selections. I know someone has a Barnes & Noble gift card burning a hole in their pocket. Also, I’ve linked the books to a Black owned bookstore if you DON’T have a gift card. #umoja open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

My 12yo is going to read it aloud to me. Right now 😁 #KidLitChat

I need this! (-k)

Tuesday brings a #kidlitchat with it at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific here on Bluesky. Only two more chances this year to join your fellow #kidlit lovers for our weekly thang. Hope you can make it!

Heidi and Joe F. have a Little Free Library on the iconic “Miracle on 34th Street” Christmas Block in Baltimore. Both are teachers and use their holiday decor to raise awareness for literacy at the holidays. Their library distributed 900 children’s books into the community last holiday season.

Wishing everyone a Wonderful Christmas full of Joy and Peace 🎄💖 #christmas #christmasgreetings #kidlitart

Check out my review and then do yourself and your kids a favor and get the series! #KidLit @melruthwrites.bsky.social rounds out her series with another winner! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Throwback post from our first issue — Taking a Stand! Young poet Lia Benton explores the idea that the world isn’t black and white in “Step 1 to Life” #Poetry epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Want to know more about how we operate and what we look for? Check out this interview @melruthwrites.bsky.social did with @duotrope.com ! duotrope.com/interview/ed...

Fun! www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Funny Books for Older Kids afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/20/3...

#BookList - The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2025, from @slj.com I find it very interesting that many of these (most?) were not originally written or published in English. 100scopenotes.com/2025/12/01/t...

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The days are growing longer again so here's to all of us, people and pebbles alike, enjoying a little more sun. Read Mona Voelkel's poem, A Pebble Remembers, in Little Thoughts Press Issue 11: Stirring Words: www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues 🎨 by @kimwnolan.bsky.social

Reading A Christmas Carol aloud to my teen… her: “But what even IS a humbug?” 😆 This is fun 👇

Picking a Christmas tree! 🎄Posting this picture again because it’s the illustration that inspired my upcoming author-illustrator debut picture book, O Holy Night. It’ll be out in the world next year. I can’t wait to share it once I get the word from the amazing folks at Bloomsbury. ❤️✨ #kidlitart

Just putting this out there, but if any journalists want to do a list of well-reviewed Canadian kids' books that no one has ever heard of, I'm totally here and up for an interview. Just, you know, if you're looking for something to do and need to fill year-end quotas or anything. 😂

Start your child’s reading journey early with Books from Birth—in partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Sign up and your child will get a FREE, age-appropriate book in the mail every month until age 5! ➡️ Register today: https://bit.ly/492C8CD

Are your kids on winter break and complaining there’s nothing to do? Open up our second issue for them to read and listen, and then print the activity packet! Instant fun! Issue: epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit... Activity packet: epistemiclit.com/wp-content/u...

Wishing everyone a happy solstice. Owl says, "Let's celebrate -- winter's here!" #kidlit #picturebooks

Thanks for keeping my cup half-full, @templeinacity.bsky.social !

Hey friends! The ebook is finally available for my third book is The Ridders Series: Back to the Ridderlands a.co/d/7cym4P2 It is also up on Goodreads to review! Please, please, do leave a review!

#BookSky #KidLit #MiddleGrade #BookRelease This whole series is awesome and imo this is the best of the bunch! Tackles stuff I never see in books in a voice that is perfect for its audience. (Longer review forthcoming)

I showed my daughter the current sub call for @littlethoughtspress.com and she GIGGLED. Repeatedly. Read a bit of the last issue and is off to draw…

Last night at dinner spouse asked one of the kids if they knew what it means to be trustworthy. I was like ummmmmm they all four of them are IN THIS ISSUE they better know! Anyway — hear what kids think about being trustworthy! Help your kid learn what it means! Have a lot of fun on the way!

Christmas Is almost here, finished my second illustration. This one coloured in digital. Happy Holidays to everyone 🎄 #kidlit #kidlitart #christmasillustration #christmascard #Christmas

A celebration of our 2025 catalog, contributors, team and more in our latest (and last of the year) newsletter! Thank you so much to everyone who read, supported, contributed to, and spread the word about Little Thoughts Press in 2025! littlethoughtspress.beehiiv.com/p/thank-you-...

@melruthwrites.bsky.social ‘s book is OUT NOW ON KINDLE and you absolutely should go get the whole series #BookSky #MiddleGrade #KidLit

And our final piece from Issue 2: Trustworthy, a Young #Fiction Highlight: “Tag” by Abigail Houlihan — a comic about helping a friend epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Exactly! I wrote a picture book about this very thing so kids would understand why. Just waiting for #Editor #Publisher interest!

Next up on our Young Fiction Highlight: Telling the Truth by Madelyn Houlihan — comic-style depiction of that moment when you decide whether or not to lie epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Fun thing we found! 15 Children’s Writing Contests and Magazines — direct submissions from kids #KidLit #YoungWriters annarborfamily.com/music/15-chi...

Today we wrap up our Issue 2 spotlights with our Young Fiction Highlights — three comic-strip/graphic novel style pieces by kids! First up is “T-Rex and Bat,” in which Bat learns his new friend will catch him when he falls. By my ( @kristinwrites.bsky.social ) 7yo son, Ethan.

I'm also really pleased to have been published in @nimblewitlit.bsky.social I rekindled my writing and creativity about a decade ago writing stories for my kids, and keeping this strand in my portfolio alive is so important to me

I will be thinking of this for some time.

Book 106 of 2025: Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate. #ReadAloud with my son (7). Took us both longer than expected to get into it, which has not been the case for me or my other kids with Applegate’s other books. I’m glad we stuck it out tho bc it came thru in the end. Sad and serious mixed in

Sharing a cozy poem by Issue 2 contributor Jessica Edmonds (Genesis Pearl) - Comfort, in the Quiet Hours won the cozy contest at Four Tulips: www.fourtulips.com/archives/com...

“But I remembered the brass coin and the single tear. I remembered the warmth of my coat when I slipped it back on. And I remembered her voice telling us, very simply, not to lose it.” #Fiction #KidLit A story of kids being trusted with an important task, by @zaryfekete.bsky.social in Issue 2!

Issue 2 Spotlight on @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social ! Read his delightful story in which Albert the Robin learns a lesson about lying and friendship. #Fiction #KidLit epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Issue 2 (by kid request!) includes activities related to the theme and the writing and artwork included in the issue. You can find a downloadable and printable PDF packet of all the activities, for a range of ages and abilities, under “Teacher Resources,” and here: epistemiclit.com/wp-content/u...

Fun book-related things for your kids to do!