Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!

Canadian author and illustrator friends! If you have any spare, new copies of your books that you would like to donate to two schools that have lost their entire libraries, please send me a message!

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The upside down girl Keith Negley Come for the art and the cumulative story; stay if you like open-ended endings. It's up to your interpretation. Good conversation opener!

@theislandwriter.bsky.social so fun to meet you in person yesterday! I hope you found everyone you wanted to meet! #RUCCL #kidlit

#OneThingIveLearned: To do my creative work BEFORE checking headlines (or Trending Topics).

#RUCCL magic. Got to meet my agency sib MeiLin! @meilinc.bsky.social Look @joycekay.bsky.social!

Today is day! #RUCCL #kidlit #picturebooks #writers

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Sheep & Goat Climb the World A. C. Paolini & Monica Arnaldo @acpaolini.bsky.social Funny. Exploring the world. Good rivalry to friendship story.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks I Used To Be A Dinosaur Casey Lyall & Laurie Keller @caseylyall.bsky.social Funny story with great moments of the chickens being like dinosaurs. Nice use of rhyme. I love the mix of humor and nonfiction elements. Well done!

I'm getting ready for #RUCCL on Saturday. Who else is going? ruccl.org #kidlit #writers Special thanks to Unickus Animation for my awesome mascot @unickusss.bsky.social

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Sunshine in the Monsoons Tina Athaide & Archana Sreenivasan @tinaathaide.bsky.social Vibrant art, playful text. Sibling and aging grandparent dynamics. I really enjoyed the natural elements.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks How to be a Proper Ogre Kelly DiPucchio & Janie Bynum @janiebynum.bsky.social I loved the sibling dynamic. A great story of discovering your voice & how you fit into your family, no matter how different you seem. Cute and disgusting. Love it.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks It's release day for my amazing CP, Cathy Sheafor @csheaforwrites.bsky.social + Dollie B. Burwell + Safier Hudson For all of us who love the environment... know the history too. Checkout bookshop.org/p/books/keep...

Good insights. I always appreciate @joelbrigham.bsky.social advice. Read the whole thread.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Underwearwolf Gideon Sterer & Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social Fun, slightly spooky book. Adventure tale. Who doesn't love a werewolf and underwear mushup?

Love kidlit that empowers children? Check out this #picturebook by @csheaforwrites.bsky.social 🎉 Like/share/comment to win a PB critique & a copy of KEEP ON A-WALKIN’! 🎉 Read my interview with Cathy at www.sarahsteinbacher.com/blog/intervi... #kidlit #kidlitauthor #environmentaljustice #booksky

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Spoonful of Frogs Casey Lyall & Verga Brosgol @caseylyall.bsky.social @verabrosgol.bsky.social So many good witchy PBs and this is one of my favs. I take it out each year. Excellent escalation in crazyness and humor. Funny/surprise ending.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods Mikey Please PB series. Charming little ogre character. Great illustrations. Very rich and inviting.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Yours, Befana: A letter from the winter witch Barbara Cuoghi & Elenia Beretta So begins witchy season... Although this is a winter story. The winter witch story. Loved it.

📚#kidlit #kidlitart #creators #writers #Picturebooks #MG #YA #scbwi This is such a fun event. Drop in for an hour or two, or challenge yourself and create for 24-hrs. Wonderful community! Join me! www.scbwi.org/events/world...

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks I think We're Upside Down! Marcus Cutler @marcuscutler.bsky.social Interactive book. Fun read-aloud. Nice dialogue and breaking the 4th wall.

This is a pinnable post for the Book Bans & Libraries feed, which searches across curated lists for terms like #BannedBooksWeek #BannedBooks & #Freadom Browse feed: bsky.app/profile/debb... Before being asked to be added, PLEASE read rest of thread 🧵👇🏼

Trick-or-treat…here’s a spooky sneak peek! Here are (some of) the books that will be haunting my Scared Silly: Humor in Spooky Picture Books webinar on Friday, October 16th. Put your favorite spooky picture book in the comments below 👇

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Deepest Blue Shauntay Grant & Daniel Minter Vertical open, felt very unique but also challenging as a read-aloud. GORGEOUS art. Girls' discoveries tying back to the slave trade and Black culture. Amazing and powerful!

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Where is the Dragon? Leo Timmers Caught the Timmers-bug and enjoy this art so damn much. Fun characters. Silly trick your mind plays in the dark.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Fish Like Me Jamie Sumner & Devon Holzwarth @devonholzwarth.bsky.social Really well done story. Combining some magic of imagination with a fun mindset around therapy and mobility.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Wide Open Spaces Robyn McGrath & Polina Gortman @polinagortman.bsky.social Lyrical story of a family road trip. Fantastical-imagination moments at different points across the trip. Back matter on mindfulness. Very sweet.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Old Blue is My Home Lita Judge Very well done housing insecurity story. Good at building empathy about different situations. Shows the joy that living in the van gives the family too.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Whale, That Was Unexpected Casey Lyall Kathryn Durst @caseylyall.bsky.social My new favorite read-aloud. Cumulative story of sorts. Great wordplay and rhythm. Fun voice. I enjoyed reading this one.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Robin and the Stick E.B. Goodale @ebgoodale.bsky.social Kid growing stronger. The stick collecting felt so true (like based on a real kid). Growth mindset to collect the branch. Simple illustrations with great use of the red sweater.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks I'm… (series) Michael Ian Black Debbie Ridpath Ohi @michaelianblack.bsky.social @debbieohi.com This whole series is great. Funny. Kid-friendly. Great read aloud. A girl, a flamingo, and a potato. Love it!

THE ADVENTURES OF BEEKLE: The Unimaginary Friend ✍🏻 & 🎨 Dan Santat @dansantat.bsky.social 2014, Little Brown BYR #PB #Friendship #adventure #journey #Caldecott Medal an island🏝️ an imaginary friend a journey to find a friend ❤️❤️❤️ 🥰 🥰 🥰 #kidlit #librarians #teachers #parents

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Have you seen my Invisible Dinosaur? Helen Yoon Really well done illustrations of something invisible. Magical realism. SPOILERS: You think the kid is just imagining it, but then he finds the dinosaur.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Seahorse is Furious (and there is NOTHING you can do about it) Morag Hood @moraghood.bsky.social Story looks at the small steps you can make even if someone is grumpy. Just being there is most important of all.

Not a bad day. The announcement went out this afternoon: The Poetry Foundation chose moi as the next Young People's Poet Laureate! That's reason enough to smile, don't you think?

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Pizzasaurus Tammi Sauer & Kyle Beckett @tammisauer.bsky.social @kybeckett.bsky.social I was caught off guard with how funny and kid-friendly this was. Lots of puns and dino humor. Excellent read-aloud.

Craving a fresh bedtime story? Check out this stellar picture book by @jessixabagley.bsky.social THE BACK OF THE UNIVERSIE is perfect for space fans! Read my interview with Jessixa Bagley at www.sarahsteinbacher.com/blog/intervi... #picturebooks #kidlit #kidlitauthor #authorillustrator #booksky

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Bear's Lost Glasses Leo Timmers Really funny. What does the world look like without glasses? Silly friendship story. Great expressions.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Home Tonya Lippert & Andrea Stegmaier @andreastegmaier.bsky.social Covers a family struggling with permanent housing and different ways a home might look. Very well done and opened lots of conversations.

Hey illustrators, How about this, to celebrate the 1st #kidlitartpostcard of the fall season (Labor Day is so late this year!) I’m going to offer a free 1 hour portfolio review + coaching session via Zoom. To enter share 1 image from your portfolio below and a winner will be chosen at random. 💙❤️

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Bo The Brave Bethan Woollvin @bethanwoollvin.bsky.social Love this story of a little girl befriending the "beasts" and saving the dragon her brother went to hunt. She shows them!

Check it out, and please repost! "Cats, Chess, and Finding Your People: An Interview with CAT TAKES QUEEN Author Ilona Bray (and a Giveway!!)" writersrumpus.com/2026/09/01/c...

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Blanket Where Violet Sits Allan Wolf & Lauren Tobia "The House That Jack Built" style while going out to the universe level. Lovely rhythm and expanding perspective.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Llama Destroys the World Jonathan Stutzman & Heather Fox Zany. Hilarious. Just perfect for silly kids. Unintended consequences conversations. Great art. Love it!

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks How to be a Lion Ed Vere @edvere.bsky.social Love this story and art. Finding courage in words and friendship.

@debbieohi.com @debbieohi.com Summer reading documentation. My little got into the full series! #picturebookart #picturebook #illustrator

My kids are capy-crazed!

WHEN YOU FIND THE RIGHT ROCK ✍🏻 Mary Lyn Ray 🎨 Felicita Sala 2024, Chronicle #PB #rocks #feelings #emotion #nature BIG rocks 🪨 for standing on ❤️ little rocks 🛘 for your pocket ❤️ etc. 🥰 🥰 🥰 #kidlit #librarians #teachers #parents

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Toto Hyewon Yum Really lovely. Great use of color. First day of school nervous and also fearing revealing a piece of yourself. This story is frequently requested in our house.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Off-Limits Helen Yoon I'm such a fan of Yoon's books. The art is amazing and so expressive. I love the movement captured. Very cute and kid-focused.

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Most Marshmallows Rowboat Watkins This is one of my all-time favs. I get it out a few times a year to reread. I love the art and using real drawn-on marshmallows. Plus the unexpected fire ending! So ROAR!