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Candace Spizzirri 📚

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Children’s author 📚young-minded grandma FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE 🫎🚂 FISHING WITH GRANDPA AND SKYE 🎣🐠 FINLEY: A MOOSE IN CHARTREUSE (2026) 🫎💚 + more Rep: Ritu Anand D4EO ❤️ #SCBWI #12x12

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Mar 25

EXCITING NEWS!!!
I’m now represented by the lovely Ritu Anand of D4EO Literary agency! I’m thrilled!
🎉🎉🎉📚❤️🎉🎉🎉

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · 17d

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks SO much! ♥️

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you, @12x12challenge.bsky.social!

So thankful for your love and support! What an amazing community!

I got my “YES” and you can, too! Keep querying! You’ve got this! ❤️

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Candace Spizzirri - How I Got My Agent

12 x 12 member Candace Spizzirri is excited to partner with literary agent Ritu Anand to put more picture books into young readers hands.

www.12x12challenge.com

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Sep 8

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KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s a Grand day! Happy #GrandparentsDay! Celebrate with our beautiful books that feature grandparents: @ajirving.bsky.social’s DANCE LIKE A LEAF, @candacespizzirri.bsky.social’s FISHING WITH GRANDPA AND SKYE, Rashmi Bismark’s FINDING OM, & @writerjolene.bsky.social’s THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT!

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out the Barnes & Noble 25% off preorder SALE from September 3-5 and pick up a copy of Chantelle and Burgen Thorne’s and my upcoming book from Gnome Road Publishing, FINLEY: A MOOSE IN CHARTREUSE!🫎🫎💚

Use code PREORDER25. ❤️🎉

#barnesandnoble #kidlit #picturebooks #kidsbooks #moose #Paris

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Aug 25

COVER REVEAL!!! 🫎🫎💚🎉🎉🎉

I’m thrilled to share the cover of my and @chantelle_burgen’s upcoming picture book - FINLEY: A MOOSE IN CHARTREUSE!!!

Finley’s next adventure takes him to Paris!

Ooh la la!

Available for pre-order now. ❤️

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Aug 11

#Teachers #Librarians #Educators #Parents

Looking for a fun picture book with Educational Resources?

Check out @chantelleburgen and my FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE.

Learning opportunities: Alaska, moose, travel, trains, positivity, and determination. ❤️

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Aug 9

HAPPY NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY from Finley and me! ❤️📚❤️📚

#nationalbookloversday📚 #books #kidlit #picturebooks #finleyamooseonthecaboose #moose #trains

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jul 23

Happy Gorgeous Grandma Day! ❤️

KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social · Jul 23

Even more to celebrate today as we highlight our very own @kidlitcollective.bsky.social's Gorgeous Grandmas! Happy Day @jnwieder.bsky.social @candacespizzirri.bsky.social @mollyruttan.bsky.social @nrpaulson.bsky.social and Charlotte Watson Sherman. #kidlit #kidlitart #EduSky #booksky

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jul 21

A Moose?
A hot dog?
A Penguin?
😂😂😂

Check out Chantelle and Burgen Thorne’s and my picture book FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE for a little Moose Monday fun! Oh, Finley!❤️

Available wherever books are sold. 📚

Gnome Road Publishing #picturebooks #kidlit #loveofbooks #finleyamooseonthecaboose

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jul 17

I love getting photos of kiddos reading Chantelle and Burgen Thorne’s and my picture book, FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE! 📕❤️❤️❤️

@GnomeRoadPub #kidlit #picturebooks #librarians #parents #teachers #moose #trains #adventure #alaska

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jul 4

❤️🤍💙

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thanks @Barnesandnoble.bsky.social Exton for hosting @EllenLRamseybooks.bsky.social (A BOOK FOR BEAR), Lori Floyd (THE YOUNG EXPLORERS CLUB), and me (FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE) for Story Time/Book Signing! ❤️

#kidlit #picturebooks #Storytime

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 23

Another Moose Monday!
😉😆🫎🫎🫎❤️

a moose stands in front of a mountain range

ALT: a moose stands in front of a mountain range

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 20

PA book lovers! Join us at Barnes & Noble Exton tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, 11:00 to 2:00 and enjoy the humorous adventures of Bear in A BOOK FOR BEAR and of Moose in FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE! #finleyamooseonthecaboose
#abookforbear #picturebook #loveofbooks

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happy National Go Fishing Day!
Catch a copy of Beverly Love Warren’s and my picture book, FISHING WITH GRANDPA AND SKYE, wherever books are sold.
Let’s go fishing!
💙🐠🐟🎣💙

#kidlit #picturebooks #gofishing #catchandrelease

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 15

Happy Father’s Day! 💙

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 12

PA friends!
Please join @ellenlramseybooks.bsky.social and me for a STORYTIME/ BOOK SIGNING event on Saturday, June 21st from 11am - 2pm at Barnes & Noble in Exton, featuring book-loving Bear and Finley, the friendliest moose!
🐻🫎📚🎉❤️

Hope to see you there!
#storytime #kidlit #picturebooks

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Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 9

😃 thank you!

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 2

Great! Moose are the best! Good luck with your manuscript. 🫎❤️

Candace Spizzirri 📚 @candacespizzirri.bsky.social · Jun 2

It’s Moose Monday! ❤️🫎❤️

Well, yep, I just made that up. But who doesn’t like an adorable moose to brighten your day?!!

Here’s Finley, the friendliest moose, from Chantelle and Burgen Thorne’s and my book, FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE. ❤️
#kidlit #picturebooks

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KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy National Say Something
Nice Day!

We love I LOVE ME! beautifully written by @kidlitcollectiv.Sky.social member LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss with gorgeous illustrations by Beth Hughes.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #selfesteem

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Picture Book Gold @picturebookgold.bsky.social · May 16

Celebrate & learn about endangered species 🐝 🦋 🐘 🐳 today & any day w/books by @writerjolene.bsky.social @ljrwritenow.bsky.social @viviankirkfield.bsky.social @martamagellan.bsky.social @songjudaemicke.bsky.social @bonniekelso.bsky.social

#EndangeredSpeciesDay #Habitats #Conservation

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