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Ame Dyckman
@amedyckman.bsky.social
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NYT Bestselling/Geisel-winning GRATEFUL #kidlit author! (If YOU’RE a l’il weird too, we’re gonna be pals! 😄!) NEWEST 📚: 🦇🐈🐀BAT, CAT & RAT #4: 🍂A GREAT FALL🍂 and #3: ⛱️THE BEACH DAY⛱️; 🐥DUCKIE & SNAPS🐊 #1: WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS; etc.! And MORE 📚 soon! 😄!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 2d
😊❤️!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 2d
👶🦷🦷!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 2d
Unexpected sight:
A pumpkin
A real pumpkin!
Growing on a vine
In that little patch of dirt
Near the curb
Downtown
A whole real pumpkin!
Well, whole except for
A few little teeth marks
As if sampled by
A curious squirrel
Or even more curious
Toddler
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 2d
😂😂😂! Gives HITCHHIKER’S!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 9d
Tried to order a treat from an online bakery but got this message:

💻: “Your order weighs less than our minimum order weight of 9 lbs. Add 6 lbs. to your 🛒 to check out.”

ME: “How ’bout a small bowling ball? Like when your family wants to go bowling but you’re tired?”

💻:
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 10d
🦜: “THANK YOU!”
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 10d
Saw these plastic key charms on Etsy and thought they’d (individually) be cool on a chain as a necklace, so I bought them!

Then I read a review from another lady who said she bought them, too—

As toys for her PARROT.

I HAVE THE FASHION SENSE OF A BIRD! 😅😂😂😂!
Colorful classic key-shaped plastic charms in various colors.
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 17d
😂!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 17d
🪲🐝: “IS!”
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 17d
If a bee and a beetle had a baby, what would you call it?

A beebeetle?
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Eugene vs. Evil Deadline 🧟‍♂️ @ecmyers.com · 18d
Good news, everyone! I have an event at @booksofwonder.bsky.social on Friday, Oct. 10, at 6 p.m., presenting "YA Thrills and Chills" with Yueh Yang (OMEN GIRL) and Mariko Tamaki and @nicolegoux.bsky.social (THIS PLACE KILLS ME). I'll be reading from and signing LITTLE NIGHTMARES: THE LONELY ONES.
YA Thrills & Chills!
Spine-tingling Stories With Halloween looming ever-closer, these YA reads are just the thing to get you into a spooky mood! Prepare for scares as we welcome E.C. MYERS, author of Little Nightmares: Th...
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 18d
😂😂😂! PERFECT!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 18d
If a blue-tongued skink eats a cherry ICEE, what color will their tongue be then?
Blue-tongued skink. Cherry ICEE.
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 18d
😂! Right? I’d get one except they apparently GO kinda indiscriminately, and I think I have too many books around for that! 😅!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 18d
*LAUGHING* We wondered this, too! Husband Guy just relocated my big multi-legged buddy to a bush in our yard. (It’s also the bush that our local 🦊 likes to pee on, but so long as the 🕷️ stays on the top of the bush, they should be fine. 😝😂!)
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 18d
That’s AWESOME! LOVE to hear of our books in the wild! 😄❤️📚! THANKS for sharing!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 19d
🍂HAPPY 1ST DAY OF FALL!🍂

Hope YOU have A GREAT FALL!

(If not, you can get A GREAT FALL at your fave bookstore or library! 😂!)

BAT, CAT & RAT:
🍂A GREAT FALL🍂
📝 by me, 🎨 by #MarkTeague
@SimonKIDS.bsky.social

THANKS for including A GREAT FALL in YOUR #Fall #reading fun! ❤️!

🦇🐈🐀: “THANK YOU!”
The cover of the BRAND-NEW BAT, CAT & RAT: A GREAT FALL, in which the titular characters (housemates-and-friends Bat, Cat, and Rat) have sweet-and-funny Fall-and-Halloween-themed fun! Text by Ame Dyckman. Art by Mark Teague. Beach Lane Books, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. The cover shows a happy Bat, Cat, and Rat returning from the pumpkin patch with pumpkins (and Bat) in their wagon.
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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 26d
Hey #kidlit illustrators!

We're beginning work on new Christmas/nighttime themed picture book. I'm looking for someone with a painterly, textured, and literary style capable conjuring magic, light, and wonder.

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 24d
THE BIGGEST SPIDER I’ve ever seen has built a web on our porch near our mailbox!

In other news, our mailman is missing, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

🕷️: *BURP*
Photo of an orangish-reddish-striped big-brown-bodied spider—possibly an orb weaver—sitting in the center of its circular web, and licking its mandibles after eating our mailman possibly.
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 25d
SUPER-SLEEPY today, but LOTS to write. I already had two cups of coffee, and wanna switch to tea, but I just poked through the cupboard, and all my tea is decaf!

Wish I had a bottle of caffeine I could just sprinkle on top.

LIKE PARMESAN CHEESE! 😂!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 26d
We went to a theme park with a PARAKEET ROOM!

You buy a stick.
The stick has little seeds.
The parakeets land on the stick and eat the little seeds.

Which is great unless…

You have freckles.
Freckles that look like little seeds.

BACK OFF, BIRDIE! 😳😅😂!
Hungry blue parakeet with a sharp little beak, disinterested in his little seed stick, stares right at me!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 29d
😂! PERFECT!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 29d
THANKS for including our DUCKIE & SNAPS: WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS in your #BookStack, Lindsey! (And in AMAZING company, too! 😊!) #TimMiller #Scholastic #kidlit
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 29d
😂❤️🐤!
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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · Sep 2
🐤: “THANK YOUUU!”
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