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Kate Cosgrove

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KidLit #1 NYT BESTSELLING ILLUSTRATOR 🌈 Rep: Deborah Warren @eastwestlit.bsky.social she/her https://linktr.ee/k8cosgrove?fbclid=PAAabMQUP9aLIDiOylx1JASn-n7ENDVrSKlbPdNyvIGdtGs6qfXIhmjM1BMTk_aem_AQY1 🚫A.I.

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Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌈 My art from The OA 24 Society of Illustrators has been chosen for the 2025 Bologna Book Fair art exhibit, April 1–4, 2025.

Showcasing illustrators on an international stage

A TREE IS A COMMUNITY
by David L. Harrison
Art by me

#kidlit #bolognabookfair #nytbestseller #kidlitpostcard

Bologna Book Fair flyer- colorful creatures joyfully march in a parade of yellow, orange, green, blue & black

My illustration framed a little child with dark hair, brown skin and a green raincoat listening to the tree roots begging for rain.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1h

Karolina Blob
www.findagrave.com/memorial/195...

Karolina Blob (1896-1976) - Find a Grave Memorial

www.findagrave.com

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

Been busy with lotsa stuff for meaningful posting but hey, GDT dissing eye-aye time and again is always a go.

Haven't you had your work treated as a mere pushbutton affair before? Because I had. 🥲

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

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SusanK @susankleinfelter.bsky.social · 1d

Art matters! Joy matters!

Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

Me to me: THE WORLD IS ON FIRE AND YOU ARE SPENDING YOUR TIME WRITING A PICTURE BOOK?

Also me to me: Yes. Because books matter. Education matters. Joy matters. Children matter. Now SHUSH, guilt-and-panic-ridden-brain. At least I'm making something as things get destroyed.

Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

It's got a ways to go yet, but I'm liking the changes I'm making to this new PB manuscript. <3

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 1d

My hobby is mentally drafting conversations I'll never have with people I don't talk to.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 1d

Scorpio season!

Make someone who wronged you two decades ago into a nightmarish villain in a short story.

Start writing an entire novel simply to spite an old English teacher.

Kill some darlings that were just minding their own business.

Your time is now. ♏️

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Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social · 2d

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eastwestlit.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social · 2d

HALLOWEEN HAUNTS! Illus Highlight: @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social zbasterplume
@shihopate.bsky.social @k8cosgrove.bsky.social
@gelakalaitzidis.bsky.social
@dowphumiruk.bsky.social Lisa Johnston Hancock, John Ledda @lucianaillustra.bsky.social K. Stock, C. Dittmann
mailchi.mp/eastwestlite...

EW Illustrator Highlight: Halloween Haunts

A sample of East West Literary Agency's illustrator talent.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Man’s Heart Stops As Speaker Asks Audience To Turn To Person Next To Them https://theonion.com/man-s-heart-stops-as-speaker-asks-audience-to-turn-to-p-1819577130/

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

Julien Gérardin
Coucher de soleil,
18/12/1908

autochromes.ensad-nancy.eu/coucher-de-s...

dark track netween trees with a sun behind a distant building

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Raining on Two (Dog Walk), Photo by Saul Leiter, 1957

person, holding an umbrella,, walking a dog in the pouring rain.

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Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats!! ⭐️

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 4d

My brand new chapter book series WILDLIFE RESCUE is out today, and I can't imagine a better way to celebrate this book birthday than spending it with these great South Carolina readers! (Amazing cover art is by Jen Bricking!)

Kate Messner sitting on the edge of a school stage with half a dozen elementary school students, two of whom are holding copies of the WILDLIFE RESCUE chapter book series

Book covers - WILDLIFE RESCUE HOW TO SAVE AN OTTER has cover art showing two kids walking through brush toward a baby river otter. WILDLIFE RESCUE HOW TO SAVE AN OTTER shows two kids walking toward a very fluffy baby owl in the grass.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4d

Hi, friends...I need your sleuthing help! I have been trying to track down a creepy/surreal children's book that I loved as a kid, but can't recall the title. It would be PERFECT for this time of year. All my searching efforts have been futile, but maybe you can help. I'll describe it below!

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Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social · 6d

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 7d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 7d

“There,” said Toad. “Now I feel better. I am not in the dumps anymore.”

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 10d

Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps:

(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.

Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit

a cartoon of a woman hugging a book standing in front of a store that says support indie bookshops

Alt: Illustration of smiling person hugging a book. In the background is a friendly-looking bookstore with lighted windows, text on wall reads "Support Indie Bookshops."

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Jilanne Hoffmann | Kidlit @jilanne.bsky.social · 10d

📚👍Congrats to @isabellakung.bsky.social on launching her beautiful new picture book about big emotions, Nunu and the Sea!!! It’s gorgeous! #kidlit #picturebooks

Isabella Kung speaking about Nunu and the Sea at her book launch

A stack of Nunu and the Sea at On Waverly bookstore in San Francisco

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8d

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

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Joshua Pruett @zombietardis.bsky.social · 8d

See you tomorrow!

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Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social · 10d

Walter stole my mat. #goldendoodle

Golden doodle dog chilling…stretched out and relaxed on blue yoga mat that doesn’t belong to him.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 10d

The Rider

Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952

A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

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Sandra Nickel 📚 @senickel.bsky.social · 11d

Well, this is exciting! I'm headed to the wonderful bookshop Author's Note, owned by the NY Times best selling author @julieberrybooks.bsky.social. And not just one local paper wrote about it, two did! If you live near by, please come! 519 Main St., Medina, NY, Oct. 15, 6pm.
#pigeons #kidlit

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14d

Me walking into the feed, seeing the baseball comments, grabbing my hat and walking back out

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Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social · 19d

Picked up Walter after being out of town for a few days. He’s so weird & cute 😆 #goldendoodle