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24.01.2025 16:13 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@sonyajustice.bsky.social
Crafting words to delight and inspire children. #KidLit. Healer. Planet ambassador. Rep @Seymour Agency. Co-host SCBWI BiPOC mingle. Storyteller Academy. 12X12. CBA graduate. Opinions my own. #Authors
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24.01.2025 16:13 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, #ISeeColor!
See color! Celebrate diversity.
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
Iโm Neha, an author-illustrator from India. Interested in PB, book covers and chapter books.
Repโd by Lori Steel at @steelworksliterary.bsky.social
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Little girl with a yellow hoodie carries a box. Her hoodie has a red cat face and paw. She's wearing blue boots. The setting is a forest with vines all over. Little Girl is reaching for the vines. There's white animal far in the distance looking at her. This is a book cover mock up by Shirley V. Ting for her WIP project Graphic novel
Hello, #kidlitartpostcard I'm Shirley V. Ting ๐จ kids, animals and fun, seeking rep for PB, CB, spot BW and short GNs + covers. I work from traditional BW to digital. visit me> illustration.shirleyvting.com #bookcoverart of a #AAPI WIP CB/MG #GN. Going #amquerying soon.
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A garden in progress in my yard. Red, yellow, pink, apricot, and a red & yellow tulip on a blanket of brown mulch. Stones encircle the garden patch.
To appreciate diversity, you need a variety of whatever it is youโre talking about.
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#Bloomscrolling #gardens
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May 6, 2025
Art of an Asian mermaid sitting on a rock with an otter and smaller mermaid in the water in the foreground. Some tropical trees and islands are in the background.
Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.
๐Open for 2026 projects for PB, GN, board & chapter books๐
Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Agent - Tracy Marchini @bookendsliterary.bsky.social
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Book cover of โPickle Wordsโ by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Jialei Sun. Several kids and pickles decorate the cover.
Not since Peter Piper have we had such fun with pickles! Stuffed full of lovely colllage illustrations, there are twisty rhymes, lots of information, and a diverse mix of pickle. From dill to kimchi to chutney and chow, this is a pickle extravaganza for kids. Crunchy Storytime Fun! #kidlit ๐๐๐ผ
12.03.2025 19:45 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#amwriting #booksky #writingcommunity
11.03.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1I turned down an โillustration opportunityโ because the author wanted me to do pretty complex double-page spread sketches for free. Easily 10 hours of work. Authors, I love you for creating stories, but please, donโt ask illustrators to work for free. Being an illustrator is not easy. #kidlitchat
11.03.2025 15:52 โ ๐ 170 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0Thanks for sharing the postcard, Susan!
09.03.2025 03:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy Womenโs Day!
09.03.2025 03:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ #BRAVE #BABY #TURTLE!๐
๐Gorgeous #watercolors~Kirkus
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๐Captivates~NYT
๐Onomatopoeia~PW
๐Courageous~SFGate
๐Tranquil~ALA
๐Serenades~NatGeo
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Happy #BookBirthday to Hocus and Pocus and the Dragon Next Door (book 2)
Magical puppies Hocus and Pocus have a new neighbor: Bye-Bye the dragon! Will they all be friends?
Available now in paperback & hardcover! #kidlit #candlewick #arcapetta!
"Writing is a way to understand the world." โ Mario Vargas Llosa
What did he mean by this? Let's dive into it. ๐งต๐
#Llosa
Good morning from Australia.
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Please join me on March 22 at Maxima Book Center in Lexington, Mass, for a fun construction-themed story time with my picture book Pigs Dig a Road. If your kiddo loves trucks, construction sites and/or pigs, this is the event for you! ๐ท ๐ง
04.03.2025 21:46 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4Kung Fur action of a little girl with the sign of the Snake and a Snake at the back.
Hello, #kidlitartpostcard it's one week in from the Year of the Snake. I'm Shirley V. Ting, I illustrate kids, animals and fun, seeking rep for PB, CB, spot BW and short GNs + covers. Writing wip MG graphic novel. I work from traditional BW to digital. visit me> illustration.shirleyvting.com
06.02.2025 19:39 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy Black History Month!
Todayโs childrenโs book by a black author is A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree by Daniel Bernstrom.
A story told with minimalist language but amazingly lush, colorful pictures. Itโs a hit a story time!
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Promo for children's books launching the week of Feb.24-Mar.2nd, 2025, with instructions to reply with book info. Background illustration shows books joyously exploding into the air, with a blue heart in the corner with the week dates. Art is by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.
If you have a #KidLit book launching Feb.24-Mar.2nd, reply with book cover (use alt text), title, author & illustrator, publisher, launch date, link where people can find info. Read Guidelines BEFORE replying, thx Pls help boost? Challenging time to be launching books. #KidLitLaunches #Edusky
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Oh my gosh, we have a really great picture book bio about Ann Lowe and my students always ask to look at pictures of her gorgeous creations, which is so much fun! ๐ป
15.02.2025 18:08 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Photograph of a picture book: Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei, A Life in the Mountains. Words by Anita Yasuda, art by Yuko Shimizu. Illustration (with inked lines and soft but deep color) depicts a snowy, cloudy, mountainous landscape viewed from above, with focus at the bottom of the frame on a climber approaching a summit. She is an adult Japanese woman with dark glasses and hair, a bold orange parka with a hood, blue scarf and gloves, and a brown stocking cap. She has a red climber's pack on her back, with a Japanese flag jutting out of it, and red mittens hanging around her neck. She is smiling triumphantly, strapped to a climbing clip, hands and on knee flat in the snow.
Another terrific #CopyrightPageArtNotes entry in two parts! Loving all this detail:
"The artist used a Japanese calligraphy brush that was specifically made for Buddhist sutra and black India ink to make drawings on watercolor paper..."
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Cover of Space Chasers graphic novel by Leland Melvin
In graphic novel SPACE CHASERS by Leland Melvin, an elite group of teens is selected to train for a NASA mission to space. A mishap on launch day sends them to space w/o adults. Theyโll need to band together & use skills from their training & beyond to survive & safely return to Earth. 1/2 #mglit ๐๐๐ป
15.02.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0This or That? First Draft - picture of a blank computer screen Revision - picture of computer screen with text and pages and pens next to it. 12x12challenge.com/membership
Are you Team First Draft or Team Revision when writing #picturebooks? Luckily, in #12x12PB we have badges for both, plus tons of accountability & support. Check-ins, feedback, craft webinars - it's all yours if you join at 12x12challenge.com/m... #kidlit #kidlitart #amwriting
๐The first review of IโM LIKE A TREE AND A TREEโS LIKE ME is inโฆ and itโs a STAR from Kirkus! ๐
Coming April 15 from #EnchantedLion ๐
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A #snowy #story, filled with #magic and #kindness
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A picture book illustration of a Palestinian folktale about a girl and her father.
WIP.
16.02.2025 00:59 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Very rough pencil sketch of three kids and a dog in a backyard gardening. One is holding a running hose and the dog has the end of the hose, spraying water. Another is holding a chicken on their head. The third is watering plants with a can.
Very rough pencil sketch of three kids and a dog in a backyard gardening, slight changes from the first. The kid holding a chicken has the chicken on their lap. There are sunflowers in the garden beds.
A more refined pencil drawing from the original sketch.
The final watercolour painting of the same backyard gardening scene.
Who else likes to see illustration processes from rough sketch to final painting?? I wish more artists would show these.
Here is my process for the first spread from As Bright as a Rainbow (written by Romy Ash).
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Blue book surrounded by the words Librarians Are Freedom Fighters
Doing research today for a new secret #mg book and discovered that the Grimm brothers were librarians! Now I appreciate them even more.
16.02.2025 03:04 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0