Andrea Brown Literary Agency
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social
We are a full service literary agency repping the best books in the world since 1981. (Not that we're biased.) We LOVE books and their creators! www.andreabrownlit.com
🎨 Illustrator spotlight on Lesley Vamos! Lesley is repped by Kelly Sonnack and is interested in illustrating picture books, black & white interiors, covers, graphic novels, and nonfiction. For more of Lesley's portfolio, check out her illustrator page and follow her on Instagram @lesleyvamos.
Had to stop and read this one when it came in to the library the other day-- a beautiful picture book about using the rags from the classmates' lives to make a story rug! #kidlit
Andrea Brown Literary Agency@andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 12h ago🧵 STORY RUG by Sophie Blackall and Phoebe Wahl—a luminous book that braids together the joy of storytelling with the satisfaction of learning a new craft—is still holding strong on the Indie Bestseller list!! Congratulations, Phoebe! 🎉 @phoebewahl.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
🌊 THE ILIAD: A Graphic Novel, a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered graphic novel adaptation by renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds, captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic and is back on the indie bestseller list!! Congrats, Gareth! 🎉 @garethhinds.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
I don’t think you ever get over seeing a book you wrote sitting on library shelves & bookstore shelves 🥹😁 I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy written by myself, illustrated by Lorraine Nam 🐧 📖
🌊 THE ODYSSEY: A Graphic Novel —both the paperback and The Deluxe Edition, by Gareth Hinds, are still Indie Bestsellers, in spots #1 and #12 on the list! Congrats, Gareth! 🎉 @garethhinds.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
🧵 STORY RUG by Sophie Blackall and Phoebe Wahl—a luminous book that braids together the joy of storytelling with the satisfaction of learning a new craft—is still holding strong on the Indie Bestseller list!! Congratulations, Phoebe! 🎉 @phoebewahl.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
I guess I'm cool enough that someone is out there impersonating me using this email address: jenniferrofe.agent@gmail.com. This is NOT me. I use a proper and obvious work address for, well, work.
Did someone say Goodreads giveaway?!? Goodreads is hosting a book giveaway for SPY GRANDMA! So if you like hijinks, espionage, and runaway ice cream truck chases, enter at the link below! LINK- goodreads.com/book/show/23... #GiveawayAlert #BooksWorthReading #kidlit #childrensbooks #BookSky
✨New book Tuesday! Happy book birthday to amazing titles! ✨ 🐦⬛ THE DREAM THIEVES: GRAPHIC NOVEL 🫧 THE BOREDOM MONSTER 🕺🏼 A PLACE TO DANCE All available now wherever books are sold! 📚🥳
My forthcoming authored book was announced today in Publishers Weekly's rights report! I had fun writing about the brilliant artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, to be illustrated by Kingsley Nebechi. This will be my second Little Golden Book, as I had the pure pleasure of illustrating one about Prince.
7 Titles to Share with Young Bibliophiles on Book Lovers Day [August 9] www.slj.com/story/7-Titl...
7 Titles to Share with Young Bibliophiles on Book Lovers Day
Celebrate Book Lovers Day on August 9 with these picture books, middle grade, and YA offerings.
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💫 A PLACE TO DANCE has received TWO trade starred reviews! Congratulations Eric Rosswood, Richard Lamberty, & Vincent Chen! 🎉 Read the full review from School Library Journal here. A PLACE TO DANCE releases Aug 4! Check out our IG post for how to receive preorder goodies when you preorder today!
Wow. SO many great insights re: #KidLit #MGLit #YALit at #scbwiSummer26 in "The State of Children's Publishing: What's Selling & What's Not" w/Maya Gartner, @sallymkim.bsky.social of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social, @mmanlove.bsky.social of Sourcebooks, & Bria Ragin. Mod by @temikatheartist.bsky.social.
Today I taught kids about seahorses and how to make color changing seahorses at the library. It was fun! #kidlitart
These gifts are available at the following participating queer-owned, indie bookstores while supplies last All She Wrote Books The Atlas Collective Charlie’s Queer Books hello again books Here's The Story Bookstore Obodo Serendipity Books A Seat at the Table Books Undertheumbrellabookstore
51 Informational and Inspiring Texts for Elementary Readers with @slj.com #StarredReviews this year include titles from @barefootbooks.bsky.social @flowerpotpress.bsky.social and @helvetiq.bsky.social www.slj.com/story/51-inf...
51 Informational and Inspiring Texts for Elementary Readers | SLJ 2026 Stars So Far
Picture book biographies, STEM finds, and a deep look at American history make up this list of superlative elementary nonfiction.
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This year, ‘The Odyssey’ has become a blockbuster movie for the first time. But these five reads prove that the story is also perfectly suited to comics for all ages
Five Great Comics Based On ‘The Odyssey’
This year, The Odyssey has become a blockbuster movie for the first time. But these five reads prove that the story is perfectly suited to comics.
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Hey! There are still some spaces left at Big Sur Children's Writer's Workshop (EAST COAST edition!) -- Come hang out with agents and editors and terrific writers and workshop and revise your book in a gorgeous and serene location on Cape Cod this Fall! www.bigsurchildrenswriters.com/home-cape-cod
20 Years Helping Writers Polish Manuscripts — Big Sur Children's Writers Workshops
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THE BURN BEAST spotted in Quill & Quire's 2026 Fall Preview alongside some other excellent Canadian kidlit 🥳🫶 quillandquire.com/omni/2026-fa...
2026 Fall Preview: Books for Young Readers – Middle Grade & Graphic Novels - Quill and Quire
Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s instalment features middle grade and graphic novels. Young adult and nonfiction titles will be featured next week. Last week’s instalment looked at this season’s board books and picture books. Q&Q’s fall preview covers books published between July
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Somebody get these GRAPHIC NOVELS in here! 🥳 🌊 THE ODYSSEY: A Graphic Novel —both the paperback and The Deluxe Edition, by Gareth Hinds, are Indie Bestsellers!! Congratulations, Gareth! 🎉 @garethhinds.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
⚽️ Goooal! OFFSIDE: A Graphic Novel by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Mari Costa is holding strong as an indie bestseller for the THIRD week in a row! Have you picked up your copy yet? Congratulations, Christina! 🎉 @jenrofe.bsky.social
Painting a spread from my new work, Everlasting, a comic about my creative low period of the last few years after burning out from big projects. 🐦🔥🗝️✨
July #BacktoSchool #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Sophie Blackall and @phoebewahl.bsky.social about STORY RUG ( @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social ): "PW: The best projects start by getting curious and critical." www.hbook.com/story/five-q...
Five questions for Sophie Blackall and Phoebe Wahl
From the July 2026 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.
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One of my favorite times of the year - beautiful work by my agency peers. 👀 (My page features some art for a forthcoming picture book that I'm super proud of.🪼)
Andrea Brown Literary Agency@andreabrownlit.bsky.social · last wk.Our updated and expanded 2026 Illustrator LookBook is now live! This year's edition features more than 140 of our very talented artist clients. Check out the Lookbook at this link to view their incredible work!
Honored to be inlcuded with all these talented illustrators! #KidLitArt
Andrea Brown Literary Agency@andreabrownlit.bsky.social · last wk.Our updated and expanded 2026 Illustrator LookBook is now live! This year's edition features more than 140 of our very talented artist clients. Check out the Lookbook at this link to view their incredible work!
More than 140 illustrator clients! Check out our expanded 2026 Illustrator Lookbook!
Andrea Brown Literary Agency@andreabrownlit.bsky.social · last wk.Our updated and expanded 2026 Illustrator LookBook is now live! This year's edition features more than 140 of our very talented artist clients. Check out the Lookbook at this link to view their incredible work!
Our updated and expanded 2026 Illustrator LookBook is now live! This year's edition features more than 140 of our very talented artist clients. Check out the Lookbook at this link to view their incredible work!
⚽️ OFFSIDE: A Graphic Novel by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Mari Costa—a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who may just have more in common than they thought—is a USA Today Bestseller!! Congratulations, Christina! 🎉 @jenrofe.bsky.social
The answer to the iconic Ghostbusters catchphrase, “Who you gonna call?,” has a new answer this summer: Louangie Bou-Montes, Sophia Hannan, and Jenny Howe, the authors behind a trio of YA ghost-hunting novels, all out this month
Three on a Theme: YA Novels Tackle Life After Death
The answer to the iconic Ghostbusters catchphrase, “Who you gonna call?,” has a new answer this summer: Louangie Bou-Montes, Sophia Hannan, and Jenny Howe, the writers behind a trio of ghost-hunting...
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