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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!

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picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️‍🌈 Co-Assistant Regional Advisor, SCBWI NY: West/Central PBParty2025 Finalist! www.caitdarfler.com Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 53m

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Patchwork
Matt De La Pena & Corinna Luyken
@corinnaluyken.bsky.social

Here are my notes from this one: "We are a multitude, not defined by any one thing. Lovely lyrical language. Powerful."
Yup.

Cover for Patchwork. Shows a small girl and a patchwork of colors floating from her heart.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 17h

A mark of an awesome PB text is that @dansantat.bsky.social is the illustrator 😜

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 1d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Great Santa Stakeout
Betsy Bird & Dan Santat
@fuse8.bsky.social
@dansantat.bsky.social

I should probably wait until Dec to share this, but fun, kid-friendly books don't have a specific "season". My family loved this.

Cover for The Great Santa Stakeout showing kid in a red santa hat looking at a snow globe of santa

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 1d

#kidlit #kidlitart #authors
I need a list of debut #picturebooks out in the past 5 years. Shoot me your favorite titles to grab!

I'm doing an exercise during a writing retreat and want to focus on debut texts.

Thank you in advance!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 2d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

A Little Bit of Everything
Meghana Narayan & Michelle Carlos
@michellecarlos.bsky.social

The art in this is outstanding! Checkout out this gorgeous book!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 3d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Nellie's Big Splash
Cori Doerrfeld

Look at this adorable little sea turtle! Great story about overcoming fears. As always, the art is *chef's kiss*

Cover for Nellie's Big Splash. shows little sea turtle on a beach with a big wave about to crash down.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 5d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Problem with Problems
Rachel Rooney & Zehra Hicks

Well done. Kid friendly approach to problems - both big and small.

Cover for The Problem with Problems, bright splotches representing problems dot the cover.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 5d

Agreed. I totally cracked up. Makes me want to try an unreliable narrator story.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 6d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

In the Neighborhood
Rocio Bonilla

Read this beauty for the community building, for the tearing down of the assumptions about others. We all need a little neighborhood these days.

Cover for In The Neighborhood. shows a bunch of small houses and a giant flying overhead

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Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social · 7d

It's here! Laken Slate's debut picture book envisioning a whale fall as a haunted house for fish! Illustrated by Bindy James, published by Charlesbridge @seymouragency.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson & Dan Santat
@unshavedmouse.bsky.social
@dansantat.bsky.social

Get this book. The facts are awesome. Or maybe not. You can't trust the narrator 😉
I was here for all of it.
You'll laugh & so will the kids.

Cover for Don't Trust Fish shows the words in large blue with skeptical looking fish.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

Oooooo!

Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social · 7d

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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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

You can often put in requests at your library. At mine there's a place on the website to suggest a book or I've e-mailed the librarian.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

Right! Me too! I'm so glad another generation will have it too.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

Yasss!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

Always. I love sharing my favorite books. I was so thrilled to learn that we are both repped by @joycekay.bsky.social too!

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 8d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Forts
Katie Venit & Kenard Pak
@katievenit.bsky.social
@kenardpak.bsky.social

This is a story I wish I wrote. Lyrical. Gorgeous. My little talked about all the forts we have around the house now and have had in the past. So lovely.

Cover for Forts shows a treetop scene with a small blue tree house and a little girl with a white cat sitting in the door to the fort.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 8d

I'm so happy about this! #kidlit

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 8d

100% Glad you pushed onwards! And I can't wait to read your new release, Cat Nap!!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 9d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Nearly Exactly Almost Like Me
Jennifer Bradbury & Pearl AuYeung

My family loved this story. As my kids are always comparing each other, and this took an adoption twist. There is so much heart in these pages.

Cover for Nearly Exactly Almost Like Me, shows two brown boys eating ice cream together

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Querying too soon = like entering a baking contest with raw dough. You’ll leave with a mess and a sudden desire to throw your laptop into a lake. I wrote the checklist you actually need 👉 buff.ly/uBvGZMt

Should I Query Yet? A Brutally Honest Checklist for Writers on the Fence

So you’ve got a draft.

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SCBWI New York: West/Central Upstate @scbwiwestcentny.bsky.social · 16d

Submitting Your Work: Digital Portfolios and Dummies for Illustrators and Author/Illustrators.
Bring your digital portfolio or dummy to share. Hosted by Kate Woodle, published illustrator, PAL member, and Illustrator Connect Facilitator.
#kidlit #kidlitart #scbwi

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 10d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

I'm Going to Make A Friend
Darren Chetty & Sandhya Prabhat
@darrenchetty.bsky.social

Plays on the word "make" in a clever and kid-friendly way. Very cute. I can see this story being useful every year at the start of school. PIck it up!

Cover for I'm going to Make a Friend, show kid carrying a box filled with stuff

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 12d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Sad Little Fact
Jonah Winter & Pete Oswald

More than ever, books like this are crucial. A little older (outside "comp-ing" age) but ever so important. Check this out if you haven't read it.

Cover for the Sad Little Fact showing a blue circle with eyes being rained upon

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 12d

Absolutely!