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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @carolinelperry.bsky.social! 🎉

📚 I AM NOT HAPPY!, illustrated by Sydney Hanson and published by @simonandschuster.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨

Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y

#kidlit #12x12PB

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @amandadavisart.bsky.social!🎉

📚 SOMETIMES STORMY: A STORY ABOUT FINDING CALM AND STAYING SAFE WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE DRINKS TOO MUCH, published by @freespiritbooks.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨

Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y

#kidlit #12x12PB

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to Debbie Zapata!🎉

📚 ISABEL'S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE, illustrated by Gabriella Galvez, published by Magination Press, is here! 📖✨

Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y

#kidlit #12x12PB

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CK (Any Pronouns...Scared ASF) Intervention Specialist/Author @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social · 5d

@beamingbooksmn.bsky.social See our books? Yay for all of us! Especially that y'all help intersections.

Page Turner Literary Agency @pageturnerlit.bsky.social · 18d

Spooky Season Book Recommendations
@ckwritesbooks.bsky.social @nadiatheartist.bsky.social @nicoecenarro.bsky.social @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social

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Grampa Jody @jodywagner.bsky.social · 6d

It's World Animal Day! 🥰

World Animal Day

There are 7.8 million species of animal on the planet. Let’s protect them all by recognizing World Animal Day on October 4.

nationaltoday.com

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Esme Symes-Smith @esmesymessmith.bsky.social · 15d

Working on a little something for launch day...

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Esme Symes-Smith @esmesymessmith.bsky.social · 21d

When I wrote the final SIR CALLIE book, I had to imagine the very worst Peran's world could be--a world where no one is immune to his whims and tempers; where his most dedicated are treated with as little humanity as his enemies. Where the world and the war are just a game for his own entertainment.

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CK (Any Pronouns...Scared ASF) Intervention Specialist/Author @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely!

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

IS THIS PRESENT FOR ME? From @cuentodeluz.bsky.social shows “the importance of thinking about others [with] exquisite visuals” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

IS THIS PRESENT FOR ME? | Kirkus Reviews

A crew of creatures try to identify a package’s recipient.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

In A SPOONFUL OF SPYING the Adventures of Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire continue to deliver “light historical adventure with bright young heroes” for #MG readers @nosycrowus.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

ALICE ÉCLAIR, SPY EXTRAORDINAIRE | Kirkus Reviews

Young French pâtissière and spy Alice Éclair returns to help foil a plot at the 1937 Paris World Fair.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

#KirkusReviews says EMMIE BUILDS SOMETHING NEW from @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social is a “sweet social-emotional book that’s the cat’s (and the mouse’s) pajamas” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

EMMIE BUILDS SOMETHING NEW | Kirkus Reviews

A scrappy rodent learns that logic can solve engineering dilemmas and social misunderstandings alike.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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CK (Any Pronouns...Scared ASF) Intervention Specialist/Author @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Just starred on GR.

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CK (Any Pronouns...Scared ASF) Intervention Specialist/Author @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social · 7d

As you should be! Representation matters!

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Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social · 7d

Well, we got our first review today and it was a bad one: “Too many pronouns.”

And we all know what that means.

We love our two wonderful, funny, non-binary characters and EVERYONE deserves representation.

If you vibe with F*CK THIS MURDER, please leave a us a review. Let’s drown out the haters

Picture of a dog with a handkerchief tied around her head, posing with the book F*CK THIS MURDER

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Gabriella Buba - Preorder Daughters of Flood and Fury @gabriellabuba.bsky.social · 7d

I've entered my showgirl era

You can't tell me this wasn't written for my heroine, Daughter of the Goddess of Storms 🙌🏽⛈️⛈️⛈️🙌🏽

Check out Saints of Storm and Sorrow! Come for the epic lightning magic and sizzling bi love triangle romance, stay for drowning colonizers ⛈️🙌🏽🌊

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CK (Any Pronouns...Scared ASF) Intervention Specialist/Author @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social · 7d

I love this for you! What an amazing experience!!

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Lynn Baldwin @lynnbaldwinwrites.bsky.social · 7d

First time seeing my book in a conference bookstore! #SCBWIOhioNorth #kidlit

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Beth Anderson @bandersonwriter.bsky.social · 7d

Especially for #Educators: "From Story to #STEAM: Building #ProjectBasedLearning from #PictureBooks" by @lindsayamoretti.bsky.social
Super post! 🥳 And terrific #GIVEAWAY! 📘🔬📕⛭ #edusky

bethandersonwriter.com/2025/10/03/e...

Especially for Educators: “From Story to STEAM: Building Project-Based Learning from Picture Books” by Lindsay Moretti

If you’re not familiar with Lindsay Moretti’s endeavor for educators called KIDLIT GROVE, please…read on! In this post, she shares her process of using picture books as a springbo…

bethandersonwriter.com

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

This Sunday!

Robin Newman @robinnewmanbooks.bsky.social · 7d

P-A-R-T-Y! ⚖️🐜 @crestonbooks.bsky.social @pubspotlight.bsky.social @booksofwonder.bsky.social

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

ZAMZAM FOR EVERYONE from @barefootbooks.bsky.social brings #picturebook readers a “meaningful and heartwarming tale that shares lessons of goodwill, generosity, and gratitude” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

ZAMZAM FOR EVERYONE | Kirkus Reviews

Wanting to find a way to do good during Hajj, a young Muslim child shares water with fellow pilgrims from all over the world.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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August 𓃹 @082km.bsky.social · 8d

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!! I'm August, and I'm open to covers and PBs!

Here's a page from my debut picture book INTO THE WILDERNESS 🏔️ 🌞

Rep'd by: @jemiscoe.bsky.social at
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social ❤️

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Kaly Quarles @kalyquarles.bsky.social · 8d

Happy #kidlitartpostcard tricksters! 👻

Book projects? Email my lovely agent, @marchsoloway.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social.

www.kalyquarles.com

Scene from The Zombees, written by @justincolonbooks.bsky.social and illustrated by yours truly. Out now!

#halloween #picturebook #spooky

Picture book art featuring a spooky cute cemetery at night with tombstones and bees buzzing around. A cat in a witch hat follows the bees. Scene from The Zombees, a rhyming Halloween picture book written by Justin Colon & illustrated by Kaly Quarles.

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Moni Ritchie Hadley @bookthreader.bsky.social · Oct 20

Find out more about the Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship at www.moniritchie.com
Open for the month of October only!
#kidlit
#writeforkids
#picturebooks
#amwriting
#amquerying
#middlegrade
#ya
#scholarship
#education

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Suhasini Gupta @thesusankam.bsky.social · 9d

@audreysuau.bsky.social @gingerburke.bsky.social @kelseymango.bsky.social
Looking forward to read your entries. #fallWritingFrenzy
@kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @lydialukidis.bsky.social @professoraixa.bsky.social

Here is mine: thesusankam.substack.com/p/fallwritin...

Good luck participants! 🤗🤗

#FallWritingFrenzy 2025

Here Comes ScareGrow...

thesusankam.substack.com

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Valerie Bolling @valeriebolling.bsky.social · 10d

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY, @byaliciameyers.bsky.social! CONGRATULATIONS on your debut; I'm so happy for you! @stenhousepub.bsky.social #edusky

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