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Leigh Anne Carter

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Children’s Book Author/Illustrator 📘 YETI IS NOT READY FOR SCHOOL 📘 YETI Book 2 (2026) 💼 Rep’d by Lane Clarke #kidlit #kidlitart linktr.ee/lacarterbooks

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

It’s release day for Yeti Is Not Ready for School! 🎉

The biggest thank you to everyone who supported me during this book’s journey. I’m so thrilled to share Yeti’s story with you.

You can get a copy from your favorite bookstore or the library. Enjoy! 🩵

#kidlit #kidlitart

Book cover on top of lined paper surrounded by scribbles and tape. Read “Out now!”. Cover: Yeti is blue and wears a dark blue bow in her fur. She’s struggling to hold her school supplies, and some have fallen out of her hands onto the floor. She has a trepidatious look. YETI IS NOT READY FOR SCHOOL by Leigh Anne Carter

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 5h

Definitely on the to-do list!

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Hocus Pocus GIF

Alt: Hocus Pocus GIF: Winifred throwing her hands up in the air saying “Tis time!”

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Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social · 9d

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards and Endies End Paper Awards! Anyone can nominate a book. Head here to get started: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/01/n...

Nominate Your Favorites for the 2025 Undies and Endies Awards!

The best (see: only) case cover and endpaper awards in children’s literature are back! That’s right, the 2025 Undies and Endies are officially up and running. It’s time to submit your favorite case co...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11d

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

A graphic that reads BANNED BOOKS WEEK, Oct 5 - 11, 2025.

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 8d

There were so many great postcard posts today!!! Reminder that the event will roll on through tomorrow since today is Yom Kippur. More pretty things in the feed tomorrow, yay!

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KidLitGN @kidlitgn.bsky.social · 8d

#KidLitGN's pitch window is officially closed. #Agents, #editors & #publishers, you have until Oct. 31 to browse the pitches at kidlitgn.com !
Reply to pitches you are interested in w/ sub guidelines, or add your guidelines here: kidlitgn.com/submission-d...

#pitchevent #kidlit #graphicnovels

GIF: Jim Carrey in a grey wig looking riveted and eating popcorn

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

I can hear “mwahahaha!” with this one.

Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks! I really enjoy the energy and characters in your work. Following now!

Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

The cutest!! 😆

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Poor little ghost! I’m sure they deserve some flowers instead 💐

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Yes the GHOST is perfection!

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Ana Paola Glz @anapaoglz.bsky.social · 8d

✨ It’s #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
I’m Ana Paola González, a Mexican illustrator actively looking for freelance kidlit projects.

📚 Picture books | 🎨 Board books | 📕 Covers | 🖍️ Editorial

Portfolio: anapaoglz.carrd.co

#kidlitart #childrensillustration

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Your textures are always so lovely! 💗

Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Tricia!

Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Must decorate with skulls! 💀

Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

You’re remembering correctly! I added the title, and some of the decorations, then thought I could play with the smoke color. Thanks Maria! 🤗

Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

This is adorable!!

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Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Happy October, friends! Tiptoeing in with a mock middle grade cover. 👻

Portfolio: LACarter.com
Rep: Lane Clarke, Ultra Literary
#KidLitArtPostcard #KidLitArt

A girl in glasses with a flashlight walks by a framed portrait of a man in old fashioned clothes. The man’s hand is reaching out of the frame to put out the flames of a candle behind her and she doesn’t see it. The smoke rises up to the text/title: Dark Hour. The wall paper is a floral skull pattern. The decorations are gothic: a skull, plant and black column.

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Wednesday #KidLit friends. Tomorrow (through Friday) is #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm extending the event a bit to account for the Yom Kippur holiday. www.ginaperry.com/postcard