Abraham Schroeder 🎩🦇
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Abraham Schroeder 🎩🦇
@thegentlemanbat.bsky.social
Artist, Designer, Children's Picture Books #SCBWI: The Gentleman Bat, Too Many Tables
http://www.TheGentlemanBat.com
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Hey all you 🦇 bat lovers! I was going through book lists and my 🦇 bat book list is up to 144 and counting! Don’t see your favorite? Drop a line and I’ll check it out. 🦇 Happy reading!
#books #kidlit #bats
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Abraham Schroeder’s 'bats' books on Goodreads (144 books)
Abraham Schroeder has 144 books on his bats shelf: The Gentleman Bat by Abraham Schroeder, The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell, Megabat by Anna Humphrey, Fly...
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🦇 The unexpected benefits that come from a life spent upside down. @batcon.org 🦇
www.batcon.org/where-the-up...
Where the Upside is Down
The unexpected benefits that come from a life spent upside down
www.batcon.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Book release update! Look for Butterfly Sea in stores January 30, 2026! Pre-order link in bio. #CanKidLit @marielaurecouet.bsky.social @tielmourpress.bsky.social @cwillbc.bsky.social @canscaip.bsky.social @picturebookseh.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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If you like anything I've written or posted or reposted...

...I hope you'll consider preordering this picture book by me and Mike Deas. That's the only Christmas gift I need.

Might be the best one I've ever co-created.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Some of what we mined at Chamblin’s Bookmine (with much thanks to grandparents’ credit):
Five Kingdoms, books 2-5, and The Candy Shop War - Brandon Mull
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
A Whole Nother Story - Dr. Cuthbert Soup
#books #kidlit #candy
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Some of what we mined at Chamblin’s Bookmine (with much thanks to grandparents’ credit):
Figure it Out, The Beginner’s Guide to Drawing People - Chris Hart
Three Tundra comic books - Chad Carpenter
Pearls Before Swine, the Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised - Stephan Pastis
#books #comics #drawing
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Last week we visited a most amazing bookstore, Chamblin’s Bookmine in Jacksonville, FL. A densely packed labyrinth of books and shelves, with helpful, colorful signs taped up everywhere to help navigate. I could have stayed a week, but we only had a couple of hours. #books
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
A few older things:
Treasure Island - I’d never read the book before
Pogo, 1951 book - Walt Kelly - some real zingers, some a little dated
Two books of art postcards from Pomegranate -
Harlem, the 30s, photographs by Aaron Siskind
Jacob Lawrence paintings
#books #art #comics
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Fall of Freedom starts today. Here’s NPR on the initiative www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
This weekend, artists are speaking out across the country
Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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What we’re reading:
Garlic & the Vampire
Garlic & the Witch
- Bree Paulsen @breebird33.bsky.social
#kidlit #books #graphicnovel
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
What we’re reading:
Paper Dragons, the Fight for the Hidden Realm - Siobhan McDermott
The Wright 3 - Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist
#books #kidlit
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What I’m reading:
Little Bosses Everywhere, How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America - Bridget Read
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi - Nerd Nite
#books
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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November's topic for #KidLitArt chat will be - Thankful Thoughts!

Join your hosts on Nov 20, 9pm EST/6pm PST for an hour-long chat about thankfulness!
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
What we’re reading:

Free Piano, Not Haunted - Whitney Gardner

Packing for Mars for Kids - Mary Roach

The Calder Game and Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett Illustrated by Brett Helquist

#kidlit #graphicnovel #books #art #mars
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
What we’re reading:

Animation a Handy Guide, From Pastels to Pixels - Sheila Graber

iMovie - Dion Scoppettuolo

#books #animation #videoediting
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Today’s thrift store score: Just Kids - Patti Smith
Looking forward to getting into it. #books #music #memoir
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just finished: Hello Sunshine - @keezyyoung.bsky.social
A powerful story, dark, sweet, scary, intense, beautiful, makes you question reality, narrative, magic, horror. A hard read, and really important conversations and messages about mental health & relationships. #kidlit #graphicnovels
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What we’re reading:
The Night Librarian - Christopher Lincoln
Hello Sunshine - Keezy Young
Rats on the Roof and Rats on the Range James Marshall
#books #kidlit #graphicnovels
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A hard book to read, more violent & vengeful than I like, almost quit 11 chapters in, but it has some moving character arcs, messages, solid twists and surprises, good heart. Not sure whether I’ll read more by him, glad to have read this.
Nothing but the Bones - Brian Panowich
#books #notkidlit
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is a cool book, and adds about a hundred movies to my watch list. Cool to see makeup for some favorite characters, (Lost Boys, David Bowie in The Hunger, too many to count)
Masters of Make Up Effects, A Century of Practical Magic - Howard Berger & Marshall Julius
#books #movies #makeup
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What we’re reading:
Masters of Make Up Effects - Howard Berger & Marshall Julius

1000 Inventions and Discoveries - Roger Bridgman

Video Game Storytelling - Evan Skolnick

Plague-Busters - Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal

Animation Techniques - Steve Roberts
#books #movies #videogames #plague
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Any bat 🦇 illustrators out there?
Hey illustrators/agents!

I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!

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

💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM