SCBWI Friends! There’s still time to vote for your favorite Crystal Kite finalists in this last round…’til Fri, July 17th. 💜 A heartfelt ‘thank you!’ you to those who have supported #Orpheline in the ‘Europe’ division. ✨🐚🧜🏽‍♀️ @dowphumiruk.bsky.social #scbwi #kidlit #mermaid #merbaby #picturebook

So excited!! 🌟🌟🌟

Katelyn Aronson📚#KidLit Author/Poet@katelynaronson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you #SCBWI pals!! #ORPHELINE : A #Mermaid Lost & Found has reached the final round of The Crystal Kite Award! We are so proud of our beautiful book & so grateful for your support. 🙏💜🧜🏽‍♀️✨ Don’t forget to give your favorite titles that last little victory vote! #merbaby @dowphumiruk.bsky.social

Thank you #SCBWI pals!! #ORPHELINE : A #Mermaid Lost & Found has reached the final round of The Crystal Kite Award! We are so proud of our beautiful book & so grateful for your support. 🙏💜🧜🏽‍♀️✨ Don’t forget to give your favorite titles that last little victory vote! #merbaby @dowphumiruk.bsky.social

🐚🧜🏼‍♀️ #Orpheline : A Mermaid Lost & Found (written by me & illustrated by Dow Phumiruk) is currently in the running for the SCBWI’s Crystal Kite Award (Europe region).✨ If you haven’t yet been able to read our book, comment & I’ll send you a digital review copy. 💜 #mermaid #merbaby #picturebook

🥳 A #giveaway for February, the month of #valentinesday and my bday! ❤️💕💖💜💗💓💝 To enter ONCE (here on or on any of my other social media profiles): Like, Share, Tag a pal below, & Follow Me! for a chance to win 2 copies of WHEN PB MET J 🍇❤️🥜! #kidlit #valentine #valentines #picturebook #whenpbmetj

Just a bull and a moose hanging out on the bookshelf together! 🫎❤️🐂 ❤️ CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH written by @katelynaronson.bsky.social with art by Benji Williams. FINLEY: A MOOSE ON THE CABOOSE written by me with art by Chantelle & Burgen Thorne. 📚❤️🐂🫎 #kidlit #picturebooks #bulls #moose #funnybooks

Our ICYMThem Book List: 40+ fab #kidlit books of 2025! erindealey.com/authors-and-... @megosphere.bsky.social @stacysjensen.bsky.social @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @carolafoote.bsky.social @katelynaronson.bsky.social @mattforrestvw.bsky.social @kellycrull.bsky.social @patricianewman.bsky.social 1 /

It’s the most WONDERFUL time of the year: a VERY SPECIAL ICYMThem Book List & recap of 40+ fabulous #kidlit books of 2025! - Erin Dealey, Children's Author

Our VERY SPECIAL ICYMThem Book List 2025 -- 43 fabulous picture books and must-read middle grade novels we don't want you to miss!

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Today on the blog: December Recommendations! 📚👍 @issiekatt.bsky.social @andenwilder.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @katelynaronson.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...

I had the most fun today chatting with author Katelyn Aronson about two of her charming PB’s! Visit www.heatherdawntorres.com/blog for the full interview! @katelynaronson.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #picturebooks #authorinterview #PictureBookPlaces

EGADS, an 'exciting conversation'! (Can I be exciting after 15 hours of flights & layovers?😵‍💫!) In any case, I'm excitED for sure. See you soon, Vegas. 😅❤️ #NYRA #LasVegasBookFestival #LasVegas @pbpros.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @katelynaronson.bsky.social! 🎉 📚 CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH, illustrated by Benji Williams and published by Page Street Kids, is here!✨ Find it here: buff.ly/Td4EV8X #kidlit #12x12PB

Happy Book Birthday to @katelynaronson.bsky.social & Clovis Meets His Match!

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @katelynaronson.bsky.social! 🎉 📚 CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH, illustrated by Benji Williams and published by Page Street Kids, is here! 🐻✨ Find it here: buff.ly/PLnYGZq #kidlit #12x12PB

Sorry, Clovis. The answer’s NOPE. Buckle you’re seatbelt ‘cuz there’s more to learn, buddy! (And that’s why life is hard 😂). Out Tuesday: CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH by Katelyn Aronson, illustrated by #BenjiWilliams ☕️❤️🐃 @pbpros.bsky.social #clovis #clovismeetshismatch #clovisthebull #sel #kidlit

Check out @katelynaronson.bsky.social & Benji Williams's new book and Giveaway: CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH by Katelyn Aronson kathytemean.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b... #Giveaway #kidlit 📚👍

The star-reviewed ‘POO-DUNIT? A FOREST FLOOR MYSTERY’ has won the 2025 Nevada Young Readers Award! THANK YOU #NYRA !!! POO-RAY for this hilarious, rhyming #STEM mystery, chosen by the children! 🙌 And POO-RAY for silly, stinky science!🐭💩 #NYRA #poodunit #poodunnit #kidlit @pbpros.bsky.social

READY? With a glowing review from Kirkus, CLOVIS 3 drops Sept 16th! And sure… it’s about all those nice things Kirkus mentions but…TBH, if you wanna see #Clovis REALLY lose his cool this time, 😆 CLOVIS MEETS HIS MATCH is for you! ☕️🏈🐃 #kidlit #benjiwilliams #pagestreetkids @pbpros.bsky.social

☕️❤️🐃 #CLOVIS 3 is out in a matter of weeks & coming to a #barnesandnoble near you! Your favorite bull has a new enemy in #Cloverdale and theirs is a rivalry to remember! Illustrated by the talented #benjiwilliams and published by #pagestreetkids , #ClovisMeetsHisMatch releases September 15th!

I promote other authors and encourage aspiring authors because I believe those other authors are my colleagues, not my competition. Their success is necessary for mine, because it keeps the publishing industry alive and keeps people reading #books.

Happy Book Birthday! 🥳🎉 @katelynaronson.bsky.social @dowphumiruk.bsky.social

“the name Orpheline symbolizes the different ways we can feel ‘orphaned’ in our lives—bereft of someone or something—and how that drives us to belong to someone and/or want someone to belong to us.” @katelynaronson.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social

Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright@erindealey.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy mer-magical #BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + 8 Qs with @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @dowphumiruk.bsky.social erindealey.com/book-birthda... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #KidlitSky #BookSky #summerreading

Thank you so much for the interview, Erin! Happy that Orpheline is out in the world today!⭐

Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright@erindealey.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy mer-magical #BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + 8 Qs with @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @dowphumiruk.bsky.social erindealey.com/book-birthda... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #KidlitSky #BookSky #summerreading

#Orpheline is here at last, washing up on shores everywhere today! Will you give this #merbaby a home? 😍 Special thanks to editor #AndreaTompa at @candlewickpress.bsky.social & illustrator #DowPhumiruk and my agents Christa & Daniele at @McIntoshAndOtis for making #mermaid magic with me! 🧜‍♀️✨ #kidlit

Happy mer-magical #BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + 8 Qs with @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @dowphumiruk.bsky.social erindealey.com/book-birthda... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #KidlitSky #BookSky #summerreading

Happy mer-magical BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + 8 Qs with the kidlit team of Katelyn Aronson & Dow Phumiruk - Erin Dealey, Children's Author

Happy mer-magical BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + Qs with the kidlit team of Katelyn Aronson & Dow Phumiruk

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Happy Book Birthday @dowphumiruk.bsky.social --illustrator of ORPHELINE, written by @katelynaronson.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social It's mer-magical indeed! #PictureBooks #KidlitArtSky

Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright@erindealey.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy mer-magical #BookBirthday to ORPHELINE: A Mermaid Lost and Found Story + 8 Qs with @katelynaronson.bsky.social & @dowphumiruk.bsky.social erindealey.com/book-birthda... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #KidlitSky #BookSky #summerreading

Congrats to #12x12PB member @katelynaronson.bsky.social on her Book Birthday for her #picturebook, 📚ORPHELINE: A MERMAID LOST AND FOUND STORY, illustrated by @dowphumiruk.bsky.social and published by Candlewick Press! See her book and MANY more: buff.ly/Zlzmje0

Just 2 more sleeps until our #merbaby washes up on shores everywhere & hopefully finds a home on many bookshelves…🧜‍♀️✨🐚

Dow Phumiruk@dowphumiruk.bsky.social · last yr.

I decided to make a magical (and a bit “extra!” 😄) ⭐️unboxing video⭐️ for our magical book, ORPHELINE, written by the amazing Katelyn Aronson and illustrated by me. Releasing soon! We all could use a little magic in our life. 💕✨(thank you UPS for actually delivering it right to my door) #kidlit

This is wonderful🌟 Congrats @dowphumiruk.bsky.social @katelynaronson.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social

Dow Phumiruk@dowphumiruk.bsky.social · last yr.

I decided to make a magical (and a bit “extra!” 😄) ⭐️unboxing video⭐️ for our magical book, ORPHELINE, written by the amazing Katelyn Aronson and illustrated by me. Releasing soon! We all could use a little magic in our life. 💕✨(thank you UPS for actually delivering it right to my door) #kidlit

#MerMay announcement: ORPHELINE is out next month from @candlewickpress ! 🐚✨Pre-order by June 9th, let me know you did, & I’ll send you some #mermaid mail 💌 featuring @dowphumiruk ‘s luscious illustrations. 🤩🧜‍♀️ #orpheline #merbaby #newrelease #picturebook #mermail #kidlit #fairytale #folktale

Looks like they removed comments about ai — I guess given all the reports of nonpayment to contributors and now this, I have no value alignment with Cricket at all. When I think of all the time I spent reading and looking up to the magazine as a kid — very sad indeed