𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝: Kansas' 2026 Great Reads from Great Places selections, The Last Rancher and Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm, represent our KS literary heritage. Check them out from your local KS library, library.ks.gov/KSGreatReads. #GreatReads @librarycongress.bsky.social

Wonderful news! 📣 ✨LA BONDAD BRILLA EN LA OSCURIDAD✨ has been selected by the Puerto Rico Center for the Book to represent the island in the Library of Congress National Book Festival as part of their program Great Reads from Great Places. @mrinali.bsky.social @barefootbooks.bsky.social #kidlit

While waiting to become stardust again✨, don´t overlook the stars and little wonders the ocean brings to your feet🐚🪸🌊🐠 #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #picturebooks #picturebookmaker

⏰ There’s still time to check out the current issue of KWELI JOURNAL, including the nonfiction story "FALL DOWN SEVEN TIMES, GET UP EIGHT," by Lily McNair Roberts. READ the full piece on our website→ www.kwelijournal.org/nonfiction/2... #bipocauthors #nonfiction #literarymagazine

Fall Down Seven times, Get Up Eight by Lily McNair-Roberts — KWELI / Truth From the Diaspora's Boldest Voices

I was standing on the field at Truist Park, where the Atlanta Braves host an annual HBCU Night in August.  This event honors presidents at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and salutes...

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Want to improve your rhyming picture book? Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and I are teaching an online webinar "From Forced to Verse" for Boyds Mills September 15 and 17. We dig pretty deep and it's a lot of fun. Come check it out

✨ THE WISE PICKLE written by Sarah Howden and illustrated by Sabina Hahn—a hilariously absurd and philosophical story about a pickle sharing its hard-earned wisdom with the local animals—is an Indie Bestseller!! Congratulations, Sabina! 🎉 @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social

SO THRILLED to announce the sale of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client @erinteagan.bsky.social Erin Teagan's hilarious and sweet contemporary middle-grade novel THE PINKY PACT - pitched as a NEVER HAVE I EVER for tweens - to Wendy Loggia at Delacorte! Yeah Erin!!!!

Exciting news, I am now officially represented by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlitart #childrensillustration

Friends, here is the official announcement of the memorial for my mom. This is a public memorial and all are invited. The Museum will open at noon so we will invite everyone to stay and gather in community, see art, and just enjoy the day. Doors will open at 9:30am.

Passing along a question to you kidlit pros. Why do authors refer to their speaker fee as an honorarium when the definition of honorarium is "a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set"?

The Kansas Center for the Book, affiliated with the @librarycongress.bsky.social & State Library of Kansas announce 2026 Great Reads from Great Places titles, The Last Rancher by Robert Rebein & Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm by Lindsay Metcalf, library.ks.gov/librarians/K...

Happy Book Birthday to THE STORY RUG by Sophie Blackall and @phoebewahl.bsky.social ! This book is SO lovely, an absolutely perfect blend of words and pictures. (And it will probably inspire you to want to BRAID something — it did for me, anyway!) 💖

Jacqui Lipton will be appearing at the upcoming New England Writing Workshop on July 24, 2026. She’ll be teaching the class, “Revision & Self-Editing for Writers.” The New England Writing Workshop will be held online July 24-25, 2025. thenewenglandwritingworkshop.com @writingdaywksp.bsky.social

Announcing new deals for @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social @jackievee.me.bsky.social @ericaperl.bsky.social + more

Rights Report: Week of July 13, 2026

New deals for Jason Griffin, Daniel Wiseman, Jackie Verbitski, and more.

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Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate for kids. 🌟 Available for books + other kids-related projects 🌟 Portfolio - charlenechua.com Rep' by Tracy Marchini Literary #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

It's official!

Children's Bookshelf@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Little, Brown BFYR Raises the Curtain on Alvina Ling Imprint buff.ly/auD9Q5j

Happy Juneteenth! Celebrate today by shopping at some Black-owned bookstores throughout the country! We listed just a few out of many bookstores that you should check out 🤩 For more states, check out our Instagram! For more information check this link: buff.ly/hmEo9jc

Continuing to empty my office at the house. Forgot about this, which I created during the pandemic for use during a virtual school visit, showing one way to brainstorm different characters & faces. Got the idea from a teacher friend! #Edusky

Perhaps fitting for Father’s Day… Sea Prayer is a beautiful and heartbreaking illustrated story of a father writing to his son. They have both fled from war in Syria. This is about as close to an adult picture book as I’ve seen, even though no one wants to describe it as such -

VA READS announces its 25-26 winners! Learn more at www.vareads.com

“I’m very proud of my historical Red River Métis ancestors and how they fought to keep their land and way of life…that story needed to be told….” @carolelindstrom.bsky.social, interviewed by @ajeversole.bsky.social: cynthialeitichsmith.com/2026/05/auth... #KidLit @gayleenwrites.bsky.social

😲🤩🥳 Oh wow! TRICKY CHOPSTICKS is the 2025-2026 VA Reads Picture Book Winner! Thank you to all the amazing students in Virginia who voted and supporting educators too. It's a true honor—hope you keep enjoying!!!🥢🎉 @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @vaasl.bsky.social

As a new agent at Martin-Newens Literary Management I am excited to build my list! I’m looking to rep Kidlit, authors and illustrators, including Graphic Novels, and select Adult Fiction. Anywho, here are some fun book covers to get my #mswl vibes. QueryTracker.net/query/hollie...

😍🥢🪭🥳 I had a blast holding a double storytime for TRICKY CHOPSTICKS and SPARKLES FOR SUNNY at #WordsonWarren in NYC, followed by a fun chopsticks challenge and sparkly fan craft, plus book signing and swag handouts! Thank you for hosting me and a heartfelt thanks to all who came! 🤩✨

And if you want to write middle grade, read read read Sara Pennypacker.

Sara Pennypacker@sarapennypacker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm often asked if I have any advice for people who want to write. I say: Read. Read, read, read, read, read. When you find a book you really love, read it again and try to figure out how the author gripped you.

🎨 Cindy Derby is today's ABLA illustrator spotlight! Cindy is represented by Jennifer Laughran and is open to picture book and middle grade illustration opportunities. For more of Cindy's portolio, take a look at her illustrator page on our website! @literaticat.bsky.social

Join us next weekend when local author and illustrator @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social will be here to speak about and sign her new cute new children's picture book, "Poppy"! This is a FREE kid's event, but registration is required. Sign up here: leebbs.eventbrite.com

What a sight! I'm pretty sure it's a leucistic Red-winged Blackbird! I'll add more pics later to my fb photography page ~ Life on the Sunrise Channel. #cherylajohnson #lifeonthesunrisechannel #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #leucisticredwingedblackbird

Have you applied to be our new literary agent yet? Check this 🔗 for all the details on the type of candidate we're looking for ⤵️ https://psliterary.com/opportunities/

Opportunities - P.S. Literary Agency

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It's release week for JIA HAS A DOG PROBLEM, illustrated by @isabellakung.bsky.social, written by Stephanie Ellen Sy! It's an absolutely adorable picture book about a little girl who is afraid of dogs... and a dog who is afraid of little girls. 🐶💜 bookshop.org/a/809/978059...

Jia Has a Dog Problem

Check out Jia Has a Dog Problem - <b>A young girl is afraid of dogs, and a small dog is afraid of children in this&nbsp;funny, bighearted picture book about overcoming fear to find friendship.</b><br>...

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