Casey Lyall

If you are a Canadian author and you're not yet registered for the Public Lending Right, read this thread! Registration costs nothing and you get money every year if your books are in libraries.

Logo reading “Publishing for Minnesota,” featuring a raised fist emerging from an open book.

So many amazing donations from authors, illustrators, agents & editors to the #PublishingForMinnesota auction! Bidding now open, ends Jan. 30th:

www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
#KidLit #BookSky #EduSky #WriterSky

A poster advertising an author signing. The top text reads OLA Super Conference Book Signing. There are two circles featuring the faces of Casey Lyall and Jessica Vitalis with text in between that says Friday, Jan 30th, 10 am and their names listed below. Two book covers are shown below that. One on the left for The League of Littles which shows three kids in action poses and a leaping hamster. The one on the right is for Unsinkable Cayenne which shows a girl and dog standing on train tracks, looking up at birds in the sky. Orange arrows in the centre point at either book. The top one pointed at The League of Littles says that it is a Silver Birch Express nominee. The bottom one pointed at Unsinkable Cayenne says that it is a Red Maple nominee. The bottom text says 'find us at the HarperCollins booth!'

If you're headed to @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social's Super Conference this week, make sure you stop by the HarperCollins booth @ 10 am on Friday! @jessicavitalis.bsky.social and I will be signing copies of our @forestofreading.bsky.social nominated books! (And I've got fun swag to hand out!) #OLASC2026

‘Fantastic news’: Ford welcomes ICE plan to order Ontario armoured vehicles | Globalnews.ca Reports emerged this week of U.S. government procurement plans to order 20 Senator vehicles for its ICE officers, a move worth roughly $10 million.

Absolutely the fuck not. ("Ford" does in fact mean our premiere and not the car company.)

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.

please keep sharing with your networks.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Here's to a new year of great Canadian picture books! Please follow our 2026 authors & illustrators on Bluesky who are participating in Picture Books, Eh! Check out our Starter Pack below!
Anyone interested in joining our little co-promotional community can get in touch at picturebookseh@gmail.com.

Thank you, Stephanie! It's a funny old process, isn't it?

When Letting Go Doesn’t Mean Giving Up,  by Casey Lyall Cover of Vampire Jam Sandwich

A little something I wrote for the @picturebookseh.bsky.social blog as we're all having our end of the year reflections: picturebookseh.weebly.com/blog/when-le...

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening

in whatever voice you have

in whatever way you can

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

Happy #Kidlitartpostcard Day!✨🎨

I'm Alexis, a Chinese-Filipino illustrator based in Toronto. I'm currently looking for MG/YA book cover and picture book projects!

Check out my portfolio at alexisyoungart.com!

For kidlit inquiries, please contact my wonderful agent @christiemegill.bsky.social !🐱

A group of cats sit in a Christmas tree, knocking ornaments off the branches and otherwise being very naughty. They all look pretty smug about their bad behavior.

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Nicole Allin, a Vancouver-based illustrator open to new projects and also seeking representation!

I wish all of you a Happy Holiday season and may all of your cats behave!

🎨 www.allinart.net

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

Happy #kidlitartpostcard from Sledi Yeti! ⛄️I’m Adriane and I enjoy illustrating cuddly creatures and whimsical scenes that bring child-like wonder to life. I am available for picture books, board books, and covers!

❄️ Rep’d by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
jmcgowan@bookendsliterary.com

❄️ adrianetsai.com

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

Same agent, new agency!

My agent @jemiscoe.bsky.social has cofounded @starlingliterary.bsky.social and I’m excited to see where we go.

If you’d like to learn more about what they’re offer, or work together, check them out!

#art #kidlitart #illustration

A boy is holding a bright star and being held up by a bear to put the star on a sad little tiny tree. A girl is giggling in the bottom corner at a fox who is tangled up in the christmas lights. The text reads “Tori Kate - represented by Analía Cabello at ABLA - torikateillustration.com”

Hi #kidlitartpostcard day! ❄️

I’m Tori & I love creating fun, silly & heartwarming characters - animals and human!

Interested & open for work in PB & BoardBooks
Represented by Analía Cabello
@analiacabello.bsky.social
at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

More artwork @ torikateillustration.com

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.

Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.

Reminder for anyone looking at their calendar + trying to figure out how to hit those writing / creative goals you made for 2025:

It's okay to adjust in order to take care of you. You are more important than your work.

Sending everyone gentle positive vibes as we head into the winter season. ❄️

Thank you so much! 😊

Thank you!

Thanks, Jenn! 😊

Thank you! And me too!!!

New books on the way from @caseylyall.bsky.social @abhialwar.bsky.social @kslivensky.bsky.social + more buff.ly/sH63snu

Details Part Two:

—a baby with a missing sniffer in the Case of Who's-Got-Your-Nose. Publication is slated for spring 2028; Molly Ker Hawn at the Bent Agency represented the author, and Alexandra Levick at Writers House represented the illustrator.

Details Part One:

Jenne Abramowitz at Sourcebooks Jabberwocky has acquired world rights to Detective Baby by Casey Lyall (l.) (A Spoonful of Frogs), illustrated by Abhi Alwar (Super Pancake), a picture book in which a pint-sized private eye is rattled by a mysterious playroom theft...

Book news alert! 🎉 Detective Baby is a new picture book written by me, illustrated by the awesome Abhi Alwar, and to be published by Sourcebooks Kids in spring 2028! Working with Jenne Abramowitz has been so much fun already! And a huge thank you as always to my wonderful agent, Molly Ker Hawn!

i've said it before and i'll say it again, if you can't be bothered to read what i wrote and you'd rather let a machine tell you what it said, i'd rather you didn't read it at all