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Hello, I’m an educator, a book blogger, a lover of all things literacy and #kidlit
@charlesbridge.bsky.social
We make high-quality children's books that inspire lifelong reading & learning. Discover new voices, visions, & directions in children's books with us
@aphelandraw.bsky.social
Children’s illustrator + Sr. Designer at Hallmark. I’m an indoor cat.
@carrenjao.bsky.social
#Kidlit author Rep'd by @heathercashman.bsky.social at Storm Literary @LeeandLow New Voices award winner, #PBRisingStars '23 Alum #FilTheShelves. http://bio.site/carrenjao Deputy Managing Editor @Stacker.
@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social
A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
@kongsavage.bsky.social
Write-handed Chinese-American illustrator in NYC. Picture books: PIANO WANTS TO PLAY, THE TURTLE SHIP. Rep: Caryn Wiseman, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. And a Teaching Artist. CKongSavage.com
@kidlitchat.bsky.social
#kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news. Banner art by Brian Kirby: @boringstorybook.com
@kateallenfox.bsky.social
#kidlit author: 🍃PANDO (SLJ ⭐) Capstone, 2021 🌖A FEW BEAUTIFUL MINUTES (Kirkus ⭐/ PW ⭐) LBYR, 2023 🔥WINTER SOLSTICE WISH, Beaming Books, 2024
@noshesthebear.bsky.social
Children’s Book Author IF MY HAIR HAD A VOICE (Beaming Books) • INVENTIONS TO COUNT ON (Abrams Appleseed) • Rep: Ammi-Joan Paquette danamiroballi.com Instagram: noshesthebear #KIDLIT #CHICAGO
@isabellakung.bsky.social
🖋Author + 🎨illustrator of 🌊 NUNU AND THE SEA 🐈⬛NO FUZZBALL! & 🐈NO SNOWBALL! 🎨Illustrator of 123 CATS & ABC CATS 👩🏻🏫 Instructor @storyteller_academy ☎️ Rep: @literaticat.bsky.social 🔗www.IsabellaKung.com
@kidlit411.bsky.social
Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways. website: kidlit411.com
@meganlitwinbooks.bsky.social
Children’s book author and former-yet-forever teacher. TWINKLE, TWINKLE, WINTER NIGHT | DIRT AND BUGSY series | GATHER GRATEFUL (coming 9/16/24) www.meganlitwinbooks.com
@writerjolene.bsky.social
#Kidlit writer 📚 #SCBWI member 📚 Teacher librarian in a haunted library 👻 TOO MUCH! AN OVERWHELMING DAY '23 ✨ THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT '24 ✨ MAMIACHI AND ME '25 ✨ UNBREAKABLE: A JAPANESE AMERICAN FAMILY IN AN AMERICAN INCARCERATION CAMP '26 ✨
@korena.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, and Children's Author ❤️ SARANG SAVES THE SCHOOL (Candlewick 2025) 🌕 A HANBOK FOR HANA (Candlewick 2026) Rep: Lisa Amstutz, Storm Literary www.korenahowley.com
@patzmiller.bsky.social
Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
@authorjamilah.bsky.social
🔸Children’s book author of very Black, very Muslim stories 🔸2-Time Muslim Bookstagram Winner 🔸Honors: Golden Kite, Walter Award, Irma Black 🔸SLA Information Award 🔸A bit political. A lot human. 🔸Rep’d by @Pterlip 🔸 www.JamilahTheWriter.com
@pbrisingstars.bsky.social
We give experienced picture book creators the platform to pull up-and-coming, historically excluded creators up the turbulent publishing ladder. www.pbrisingstars.com
@lynnbaldwinwrites.bsky.social
#kidlit writer/Debut PB: MY BACKYARD USED TO BE coming Fall '25, Tilbury House/SCBWI/12 x 12PB /InkedVoices/rep'd by Jen Newens/love to travel, be outside, study languages
@marciecolleen.bsky.social
Children's Author of picture books, chapter books, and comics. Former Senior Writer at Epic! Originals. Represented by Paige Terlip at Andrea Brown Literary
@carolinelperry.bsky.social
Picture book author www.carolinelperry.com Links: https://linktr.ee/carolinelperry 📘I Am Not Happy! 🇦🇺 (S&S, ‘25) 📙The Memory Cake 🇲🇹 (Holiday House, ‘25) 📕 Messi’s Magic ⚽️ (Scholastic, ‘25) 📗Nighty Knight 🏰 (S&S, ‘26) 📚 The Corgi and the Queen, out now!
@senickel.bsky.social
Award-Winning Picture Book Author | Next Up: Seven, A Most Remarkable Pigeon 🐦💙 | Agent: Victoria Wells Arms l #KidLit l #PictureBooks l #VCFA | #SCBWI l #AffirmingAutism l She/her
@writerdaniela.bsky.social
Kidlit Author | Wife & Mami | Chicana | WELCOME HOME, ESMERELDA (Charlesbridge, May 2025)| @SCBWI | Rep: Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency writerdaniela.com
@patriciatoht.bsky.social
Children’s author, poet, Rhyme Doctor, reader, former bookstore owner and library associate. https://www.patriciatoht.com/
@nadinepresley.bsky.social
Syrian Canadian Author • Wife • Boy Mama THE CITY OF JASMINE (Harper ‘25) • WHERE THERE IS LOVE (Harper ‘26) Rep’d by Allison Remcheck of Stimola Lit.
@sharonfj.bsky.social
🇯🇵🇺🇸 children’s book author-illustrator 🎨📚 THE MOCHI MAKERS (S&S/Beach Lane Books, 2024) SHELL SONG (2025) 💖 www.sharonfj.com
@susischaeferart.bsky.social
📚PB Author/Illustrator. THE GLOW SHOW, CAT LADIES , GOOD MORNING, I LOVE YOU, VIOLET!, ZOO ZEN! Rep Kerry Sparks @lgrlit 🗻Austrian Alps to SoCal🌴 https://www.susischaefer.com/
@colleenpaeff.bsky.social
Rhymes with laugh | Sibert Honor author of THE GREAT STINK | Next up: FIREFLY SONG 6/25 and RAINBOW TRUCK 3/26 | School visits are my favorite! | Los Angeles, CA www.colleenpaeff.com Agent: @steelworksliterary.bsky.social
@lacarterbooks.bsky.social
Children’s Book Author/Illustrator 📘 YETI IS NOT READY FOR SCHOOL (July 1, 2025) 📘 YETI Book 2 (Summer 2026) 💼 Rep’d by Lane Clarke #kidlit #kidlitart linktr.ee/lacarterbooks
@joannahowrites.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author • Intl speaker • Educator. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. We Who Produce Pearls. The Silence that Binds Us.
@katehanniganbooks.bsky.social
Author of children’s books—fiction and nonfiction. Walker. Worrier. Dangerous home cook. Exceptional parallel parker. KateHannigan.com
@msmirelle.bsky.social
🇲🇽 award-winning artist and writer for kidlit and animation. Author/illustrator of MAGIC and RIVER OF MARIPOSAS. Website: https://www.mirelleortega.com/ Instagram: @msmirelle Newsletter: https://mirelleortega.substack.com/
@tavaresbooks.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Dasher, Red & Lulu, several other picture books, and the graphic novel Hoops.
@lydialukidis.bsky.social
Award winning #kidlit author & workshop presenter (K-6) UP, UP HIGH (Capstone, '25) DEEP, DEEP DOWN (Capstone '23), Crystal Kite winner & Silver Birch Express Honor Rep'd by @mirandapaul.bsky.social
@susanwoodbooks.bsky.social
Author of books for young readers. Music/art/history. Lover of all things beautiful in their own way. #kidlitwomen #resist #persist susanwoodbooks.com
@stevenlenton.bsky.social
-Author/illustrator of fun, magical books! -Wicked obsessive 💚 -Podcast host 'Studiomate Steve' -Collaborating with geniuses Rachel Morrisroe, Andy Day, Tracey Corderoy, Helen Docherty and laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce!
@ttorrible.bsky.social
#PB writer and poet, TORRIBLE PUNS: A COLLECTION OF PUNNY POEMS (Gnome Road Publishing, Spring '25), PBChat Mentee, #SCBWI, #12x12pb, #picturebooks, #poetry, #kidlit @pbbuds.bsky.social triciatorrible.com torriblepuns.com
@lislhdbooks.bsky.social
Children’s book author and speaker who lives on a family-owned cranberry farm. New PBs for fall: STILL THERE WAS BREAD and EACH DAY IS A GIFT. Repped by Jennifer Mattson at ABLA.
@bookhive25.bsky.social
We're a group of 12 #KidLit creators all abuzz about our books coming out in 2025! www.bookhive25.com Insta & Threads: @bookhive_25 Tiktok: @bookhive25
@katelynaronson.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇫🇷 France / Switzerland / California 👩🏼🎓Bilingual MA, La Sorbonne Paris My Books: 🐷Piglette 1, 2 🌸 ☕️🐃Clovis 1, 2 ⭐️ 🐭💩Poo-Dunit?⭐️ 🥜When PB Met J🍓 🧜♀️Orpheline, June ‘25 🐘Clovis 3, Sept ‘25
@anooshasyed.com
award-winning author/illustrator for children’s books, character designer & art educator📚 ✎ resources, books, & more links ↓ https://www.anooshasyed.com
@brianlies.bsky.social
NYT bestselling children’s book author and illustrator. Caldecott honoree. Visiting author. Gardener, woodworker, fan of “how to” videos and making stuff like pickles, cheese and kimchi.
@ronnawriter.bsky.social
#kidlit #neurodivergentsupporter #libraries #12x12PBChallenge, fmr European expat, ❤️ cats, standard poodles, purple + chocolate, SCBWI-LA Mingle coord. Picture book debut fall ‘26. Rep’d by Marisa Cleveland. goodreadswithronna.com + RonnaMandel.com
@ariadelsole.bsky.social
Author-illustrator•Illustrator Latest: AT THE COOKOUT ‘26 (✍🏽🎨) • I AM THE SPIRIT OF JUSTICE (🎨) ‘25 • LPBD: SIMONE BILES ‘24 (🎨) Rep’d by @Jemiscoe.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/Ariadelsole
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social
A full service literary agency repping the best books in the world since 1981. (Not that we are biased). We LOVE books and their creators!
@mikepetrik.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of books for kids! Rep’d by Teresa @ Bookmark Literary. One Cool Duck 4, Camp Out! Out now from Hippo Park and Astra Pub. https://linktr.ee/mikepetrik
@jmorerabooks.bsky.social
FL Author | Cuban American | Pastelito Enthusiast 🖍️ Preorder TOGETHER WE REMEMBER (5/13/25) 🌻 ABUELO’S FLOWER SHOP (Beaming ‘24) Rep’d by Ashley Reisinger Banner art by Violeta Encarnación
@allenwriteswell.bsky.social
@cynthiaharmony.bsky.social
#Kidlit Author Latest: A Flicker of Hope /Un Aleteo de Esperanza 🦋 Upcoming: Apapacho Love '26 Forest en Familia '26 Row Sow Grow '26 Hasta Pronto is a Promise '27 linktr.ee/cynthiaharmony