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Adria Karlsson
@adriakarlsson.bsky.social
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Author/illustrator repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social

#nescbwi, #12x12pb
MY SISTER, DAISY (Capstone, 2021)
www.adriakarlsson.com
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adriakarlsson.bsky.social
It was so fun to get to table with @anneappert.bsky.social at the Newton Children’s Book Festival on Sunday! I saw so many people and failed utterly at taking photos… so here are two I managed and one from Victoria. They star the very cool @weyakindesigns.bsky.social and @andrewchacket.bsky.social !
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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weyakindesigns.bsky.social
Had so much fun seeing friends, meeting new friends, and looking at and buying SO MANY BOOKS at the Newton Children’s Book Festival today! In photos: @phaeacrede.bsky.social @adriakarlsson.bsky.social @anneappert.bsky.social @andrewchacket.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitcommunity
Victoria K. Chapman takes a selfie with author, Phaea Crede at the Newton Children’s Book Festival. Victoria K. Chapman takes a selfie with author, Andrew Hacket at the Newton Children’s Book Festival. Victoria K. Chapman takes a selfie with authors and illustrators, Anne Appert and Adria Karlsson at the Newton Children’s Book Festival. Victoria K. Chapman takes a selfie with author and illustrator, Adria Karlsson at the Newton Children’s Book Festival.
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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leewind.bsky.social
#KidLitLaunches BANANA MENORAH celebrates creativity, a two dad family, and Hanukkah... feeling grateful I get to create #kidlit that would have changed my life if I read it as a kiddo!
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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jacobsouva.bsky.social
Hey! It's #KidLitArtPostcard day. I'm an author/illustrator of books for kids. I try to work texture and color into everything I do. I love manuscripts that are quirky, funny, and have a load of heart. I'm rep'd by @jenrofe.bsky.social of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social.

✨ www.twofishillustration.com
A girl in black and white climbs a ladder and uses a bullhorn to make a creative proclamation. Lots of colored items and movement are coming out of the bullhorn.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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cindylozito.com
Of all the trees that transform and autumn, ginkgos are my favorite! Happy #kidlitartpostcard day 🍂 I am open to illustrating kids books and black-and-white interiors.
cindylozito.com
[email protected]
Happily rep’d by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
A scene of a young girl in a butterfly costume dressing up her toy rhino in a set of butterfly wings beneath a ginkgo tree losing its leaves in the wind
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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julianplum.com
Hello #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ picture book illustrator working in gouache. I've climbed out of the final art mines to wave around a little flag that says "let me illustrate a book about frogs or bugs!"

🌌 julianplum.com
💌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #art 🐸 🌿
Gouache painting in lush dark green and blue featuring a cross-section of a pond at night. A green harlequin-patterned frog with a hint of tadpole tail climbs half out of the water into the cattails, looking at the stars. In the darkness lurks a taloned heron foot. The water is full of tadpoles, pond weed, insect larvae, and frog eggs. A single bright mayfly hangs on a cattail leaf above the frog's head. Text below reads JULIAN PLUM | Represented by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary, julianplum.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Adria - a queer, trans author/illustrator of books for kids! I’m interested in BB, PB, and CB.

I’m repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social and @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kiltart #cutpaper #autumnleaves
Kidlit art postcard in cut paper and dried fall leaves. Fairies grouped around a cauldron on a fall day.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
#ChatsByTheCauldron - This is my fourth prompt for #ABLArtFest… and maybe my favorite?! I really love how the leaves turned out for the background and these characters are some of my favorites. I wonder what they’re all chatting about? 🍂🍁
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#picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Cut paper art with pressed autumn leaves that form a forest around a campfire. There’s a large cauldron on the campfire and fairies around it looking cozy and chatting.
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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malindalo.bsky.social
Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social
Battling book bans in Beantown and beyond - The Tufts Daily
I consider myself to be generally aware of the state of book banning in the United States. I read about the fights going on in school districts and libraries throughout Florida, Tennessee and Texas. I...
www.tuftsdaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
3rd piece done for #ABLArtFest - this one is for #GhostlyEncounters! Apparently that doesn’t make everyone think of alien encounters… but that’s where my brain went! 👻 👽 🎃
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@andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlit #illustration #cutpaper #picturebookillustration #ghost #alien #oldbarn
A cut paper image. Two ghosts in the foreground hiding in front of an old dilapidated barn are watching an alien beam down from a flying saucer. There are two more aliens in the flying saucer. The background is a starry sky.
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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jamellebouie.net
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Oct 12
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
FORM A CROWD STAY LOUD PROTECT EACH OTHER CODE I: ICE NEARBY BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM: PRE-PRE-PRE! → ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA. ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS • A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS. • LOUD. RECOGNIZABLE. IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE. • OUR VOICES ARE STRONGER TOGETHER. WHISTLES GUIDE PEOPLE TO: • FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS • CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD • ALERT NEIGHBORS TO JOIN IN NOISE = VISIBILITY. CODE 2: CODE RED BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS: PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE! → ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE. FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD. DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT. WHY IT WORKS • INSTANT ALERT SYSTEM • FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA • TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY ACTION ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY: WHAT YOU CAN DO • WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK TEACH FAMILY EIGHBORS TH CODES • USE IT WHEN ICE IS SPOTTED • PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE. FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD. THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY: PROTECT RP • @PROTECTRP_
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
Got my 2nd piece done for #ABLArtFest - this one is for #TheCrystalBallReveals! This started out fun and ended up slightly ominous… what with the approaching rain clouds and all.
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@andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlit #illustration #cutpaper #picturebookillustration #itsybitsy #spider #treehouse
Child with black pigtails and a green hoodie gazes into a crystal ball sitting on a brown wooden chair. A friendly spider is perched on top of the crystal ball. Inside the crystal ball is a treehouse with a same size spider web built next to it and a tiny image of the kid and the spider waving at each other. In the top of the crystal ball are approaching rain clouds. All of the image is rendered in cut paper.
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
My 1st piece for #ABLArtFest - the prompt was #fallfestivities!

I adore the sneaky dragon, the determined bunny, and the trying-ever-so-hard robot…. But the mad scientist and dog for sure “steal” the scene (see what I did there?!).

#kidlitart #illustration #cutpaper @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Four kids are trying to eat donuts hanging on strings without using their hands. The first one is a curly redheaded white kid dressed as a purple dragon and is cheating- using their hands to hold the donut. The second is a south Asian kid with straight black hair in a large pink bunny suit. The third is Black kid with an Afro and a hair pick, dressed up as a mad scientist - his donut has been stolen by a white dog. The dog is running away with the donut. The fourth kid is a smaller white kid dressed as a robot who has not gotten any donuts yet. There’s a large tree with fall leaves and a stone wall in the background.
October 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
2nd carpal tunnel surgery today! I had my right hand done 4wks ago. So I’ll just be hanging here with my Advil and my bag of peas waiting for ONE OF MY HANDS to feel normal.😩 (ok, I have to teach middle schoolers in 3 hours… but until then, and after that, it’ll be just me and the peas.)🫛 #kidlitart
April 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Adria - a queer, trans author/illustrator of books for kids! I’m interested in BB, PB, and CB.

I’m repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social and @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kiltart #cutpaper #linocut
April 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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anneappert.bsky.social
Oh hey #transdayofvisibility. I’m here and trans!
It’s hard being trans in this country right now (understatement), but I love being me and hope that the future is still bright.
And I hope there are lots of queer books in my future.
love to my enby partner in crime @adriakarlsson.bsky.social 🩷🤍🩵
Photo of a person with short, rainbow hair, big sunglasses and a light purple jacket standing in front of a tree. Picture of two people standing in front of cabins and a rainbow. One is embracing the other from behind and both are smiling
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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phaeacrede.bsky.social
April 5
10:30 AM
Word on the Street in Marlborough MA
Join us!
Oh deer launch party at word in the street 162 Main Street in Marlborough ma. Games, cookies, cryptid drawings, and free prizes for the first 10 preorders.
March 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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portersqbooks.bsky.social
OK, let's do something fun, something we did a few times on Ye Olde Textcentric Microblogging Social Media Platform, a little distraction called

JOSH READS WAYYYY TOO DEEPLY INTO A KID'S BOOK WITH POTENTIALLY ALARMING RESULTS.

Today, the absolute work of genius PRINCESS IN BLACK Let's go...
March 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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julianplum.com
Hello hello, #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Julian, and I'm a queer & trans picture book illustrator painting in traditional gouache 🖌️ The snowdrops will come back soon enough :)

🎨 julianplum.com
🌿 Rep'd by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary

#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
A gouache painting of an amber mouse in white snow looking up at blooming snowdrops against minty green. It reads "Julian Plum" at the top, and below the snowdrops against the snow it says, "Rep'd by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary, julianplum.com, hello@julianplum.com". The mouse has left little footprints in the snow.
February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
Hello #kidlitartpostcard! I’m Adria Karlsson and I write/illustrate books for kids!

I’m interested in BB, PB, and CB. I’m repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kidlitart #kakapo #nzbird
Two kids around 8 years old - one brown skin with black curly hair and the other white with straight shaggy brown hair - watch a kakapo feed its baby. Cut paper illustration.
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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chadgayle.bsky.social
Are you a trans or nonbinary writer?

Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:
Announcing a Scholarship for Trans Writers
We are delighted to announce the Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for our flagship Six-Week Workshop, offered by an anonymous donor, which will be awarded each year to one…
www.clarionwest.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
adriakarlsson.bsky.social
Every time I go to a conference I get to meet new, cool people - this year’s #scbwiny25 was no exception! Thanks for being a new friend, @caitdarfler.com !!
February 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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caitdarfler.com
Look at those red feet!

@adriakarlsson.bsky.social
@heidieys.bsky.social
@pamelamorganwrites.bsky.social
3 fabulous folk with 6 red shoes
February 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM