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Beth Volkmann
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M.Ed. Children's Book Writer. Picture Taker. Nature Lover. Anglophile.

Curious about flora and fauna of all kinds but particularly fond of elephants, wolves, birds, insects, and trees.

#SCBWI. #12x12 #kidlit #naturalist

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Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

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“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#HaikuSaturday #haiku
The Golden Triangle BID has an annual haiku contest. They post haiku throughout the community and give some prizes. This year's theme is The Joy of Nature. More info on their site under events. Submissions are open until 1/11/26.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Day 3 of #folktaleweek2025

Rain

#illustration #folktaleweekrain
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Last week on the North York Moors (Northeast England) - before the weather turned! The freezing cold will probably finish off most of the fungi; hopefully the birds will move out of the worst of it🤞
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#art #nature
Sketchbook page of birds, fungi and other wildlife from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, UK
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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johnlechner.bsky.social John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 7d
I made a birthday card for my niece. #kidlitart
Photo of a hand holding a watercolor greeting card depicting a woodland scene with a rabbit and squirrel hidden among the greenery. A cutout area between two trees reveals a fairytale castle in the distance. Artwork © by John Lechner
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🎨 Spotlight on Cyndi Wojciechowski (@cyndidraws.bsky.social)

Cyndi's illustrator website

Cyndi is represented by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black and is open to picture books, black and white interiors, chapter books, and covers.
Young girl outside with glasses, looking at explorer journal Wednesday Addams dancing in black dress In gray scale, little girl in bed looking out window as dog howls at the moon Bear with steaming pie in hands, and a fox, squirrel, and bird follow behind
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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sarahlovellart.bsky.social Sarah Lovell @sarahlovellart.bsky.social · 9d
This months @scbwi.bsky.social draw this prompt is ‘buttons’ . Here’s my illustration inspired by this prompt :)

#illustration #buttons #gooutside #scbwidrawthis #kidlitart #picturebookillustration
Illustration of a mum doing up her daughter’s coat buttons. They are wearing clothes ready to go out for a dog walk . The dog is waiting for them with his lead in his mouth .
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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unwrapped leaf by leaf
radiant in autumn light
bold, beautiful - tree

#haikuSaturday #haiku #tres #dendrology #audubon #arcadia #autumn
Bare-leaf tree in a green meadow with a mountain and blue sky backdrop in autumn
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Day 11 of the #makearteveryday challenge . This one is ART: SONG BIRD
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#mae2025 #makearteveryday #illustration #illustrator #lovewhatyoudo #birdillustrator
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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When I read the full review of THE OCEAN'S HEART I cried (tears of joy)...Okay, I'm still crying. The reviewer connected with this book on every level. I hope other readers will, too. ❤️@steelworksliterary.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social #Edusky #Skybrarians #kidlit
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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There are a few scam DMs going around, don’t fall for them!
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Had a great morning on our Travis Audubon poetry birding hike at Blair Woods Nature Preserve in Austin. This interesting spider was hanging above the trail. #haikusaturday #nature
Spinybacked Orbweaver spider hanging from a web, which was strung between tree branches over a wooded trail in Blair Woods Nature Preserve this morning in Austin Tx
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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On our poetry birding hike today we wrote nonets. This is my first attempt at writing one! We heard Carolina Chickadees along the trail. Although I didn't capture a good photo today, I added a nonet to a rough sketch I made from a photo I took of a Black-capped Chickadee in the NE.
Sketch of a Black-capped Chickadee with a nonet typed onto the sketch.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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We love a good collective noun and there are lots of crackers for rooks, including congregation, storytelling, building, parliament and clamour.

The bird's Latin name Corvus frugilegus means "fruit-gathering crow".

📸 Pics by George Anderson.🐦‍⬛
Close up side view of a large bird with glossy black feathers with a blueish tinge. Full body shot of a large black bird.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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beneath starry skies
buck-toothed builder carves
frost moon on the wane

#haikuSaturday #haiku #poetry #moon #beavers #ecology #rivers #trees
Tree trunk gnawed by a beaver on the river bank in the autumn
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 17d
They’re observant, birds,
Perpetually watching;
Never miss a trick.

#haikuSaturday
Photo of a jackdaw, jauntily posing on a roof edge, with a background of autumnal trees
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Super fun haiku!
abbiewjames.bsky.social Abbie James @abbiewjames.bsky.social · 18d
frosty goldenrod
swaps its yellow sundress for
a fuzzy sweater

#HaikuSaturday 💚 #nativeplants 💚 #gardening
puffy off-white goldenrod flower seeds atop stems with fading green leaves; blurry other plants and frosted grass in the background
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Todays colour collective drawing using the colour ‘dark charcoal’ .

#illustration #forest #mixedmedia #colour_collective
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Happy Friday! You still have until Wednesday, November 12 to send us a haiku or two! This issue's theme is winter, but don't use the word winter! thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines - The Solitary Daisy
The Solitary Daisy Journal runs on a fortnightly schedule (every two weeks). In each issue there is a prompt. Haiku written to the prompt will be considered
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November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🌸🌱🐝🌿🍂🪻 // sunlight scavengers // spread from Gardening for Biodiversity by the Wild Seed Project // gouache on hot press paper

realized I hadn't posted the art from one of the coolest projects I've ever done, so I'm starting that today! plant facts in the comments :)

#art #botanicalillustration
Gouache painting of a sunlit forest floor covered in a verdant mass of early-spring flowering plants: virginia bluebells spill over onto a groundcover carpet of tiny pink spring beauty flowers. Large-flowered bellwort grows in the shade of a lacy New York fern. Yellow bell-shaped leatherwood flowers dangle over bright red eastern newts in the red eft stage, and puffy clusters of white baneberry flowers grow toward the early leaves of a buckeye tree. Spring beauty miner bees gather pink pollen in the foreground.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Let's celebrate! It's #NonfictionNovember!!!
Did you know that reading nonfiction #picturebooks can help you win #jeopardy? Don't miss this incredible post by Astra Books for Young Readers Marketing Director Kerry McManus: astrapublishinghouse.com/2025/11/06/c...
How Nonfiction (and a Calkins Creek Book!) Helped Me Nail a Final Jeopardy! Question - Astra Publishing House
In my house, we’re loyal Jeopardy! watchers. Every evening at 7 p.m., you’ll find my family glued to the TV, testing our trivia skills. I have to admit—I usually do pretty well. […]
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November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I love this feature of the #NYT.

Each one a mini-masterclass in poetry - reading, writing, experiencing.

#poem #poetry #writing
This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art (Gift Article)
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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We are very excited for this upcoming webinar with @sylvialiu.bsky.social on unblocking & unlocking creativity! Open to non-members too!
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November 6, 2025 at 5:09 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
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ANNOUNCEMENT! We've been working hard behind the scenes this year to revamp our approach to our scholarship program. It's now ready and applications for our 2026 scholarship program are LIVE! forms.gle/Pe2qKyaGMH67...
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM