@amedyckman.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling/Geisel-winning GRATEFUL #kidlit author! (If YOU’RE a l’il weird too, we’re gonna be pals! 😄!) NEWEST 📚: 🦇🐈🐀BAT, CAT & RAT #4: 🍂A GREAT FALL🍂 and #3: ⛱️THE BEACH DAY⛱️; 🐥DUCKIE & SNAPS🐊 #1: WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS; etc.! And MORE 📚 soon! 😄!
Peace Treaty
AE Hines
El Retiro, Colombia
When I step naked into my shower,
I find, staring down at me,
its eight dark eyes peering over
the silver lip of the sprayer, a tarantula
the size of a bar of soap.
There’s a reason we tap out our shoes,
[...]
poets.org/poem/peace-t...
Could a tiger
A toothsome tiger
Crack open a bottle
Of beer
With their teeth
Leaving a deep
(And neat)
Indent
In the cap
Without hurting their teeth
Or the beer
THAT SOUNDS GREAT! (We all had grilled cheese sandwiches and soup and said, “This is like a commercial!” 😂!—but YES, I think we need cocoa, too!) THANKS! 😄!
23.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AWWW, THANKS, Lynne! 😊❤️!
23.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂❤️! I think maybe folks around here would be more joyous like you if ours was short-lived, too! (All our snow from the LAST storm hadn’t even melted yet—and we just got 14 MORE inches! 😳😫😂!) But I’m so happy you’re having fun—love the spirit, Lynne!
23.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
SNOW-SNOW-#SNOW!
But from a kid’s perspective, it’s like A BUTT-TON of Play-Doh just fell from the sky!
Happy sculpting, little artists!
⭐️⛄️⭐️!
HOORAY 🎉 and THANKS, @jade1313.bsky.social! 😊🎈! SO HAPPY you enjoyed our ⭐️MONSTER OG: OG RESCUES BOP⭐️! We (@eliopictures.bsky.social, the @simonkids.bsky.social gang, & I) are having SO MUCH FUN with OG! MORE MONSTER OG on the way! #kidlit
20.02.2026 01:07 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
🐴🐴🐴: We are the wild horses.
And we just want to say,
That if we really wanted to,
We COULD keep you away.
Everything was more real. Social media used to feel like an after-school club where we could all just sit around and go, “You ❤️ books? I ❤️ BOOKS, TOO! SQUEE!” and generally geek out together. Now you can’t even say the word “book” without getting 4 billion fake book marketing replies—or worse. 😢!
13.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0⭐️😊⭐️!
13.02.2026 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anal glands moral support.
😳😝😂😂😂!
😂! I am, too! Like, what could they be there for? (Gunky ears? That’s like, the only Devon thing I DON’T miss! More wax than a candle factory! 😝!)
13.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My Dungeons & Dragons Bobby and Uni dolls—I mean, COLLECTIBLES.
Riding into the weekend like:
13.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WELL, NOW I WANT ANOTHER ONE, DEV! 😫😂❤️🐱!
11.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the gardener’s hand,
The watering can
Looked up at the raincloud
And said,
“YOUR TURN!”
Thanks, old chap! 😉😂!
06.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When you read a short story that’s SO BRILLIANT, you momentarily get a British accent:
“I say, ‘WELL DONE!’”
😳😅!
“I mean, um, nice job.”
Homemade cheesecake with a crack in the center, and paper-and-Sharpie eyeballs placed above the crack to create a smiley face, as the cheesecake appears to be bemused by its existence. Or calorie count.
If your homemade cheesecake cracks, HAVE FUN WITH IT! 😂!
06.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s SO COLD, the Sani-wipes I leave in my car FROZE into a brick!
A Sani-brick!
I guess I could just THROW IT at germs! 😂!
😂😂😂!
01.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌽🌾🌽🌾🌽🌾: “YES!”
ME: “NO!”
I like to go against the grain.
Monte Cristo sandwich sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Snow day so we made Monte Cristo sandwiches!
(They look like they got snowed on, too! 😂!)
Well, this was a nice surprise. Kirkus gave this a star. ⭐️ I TOLD A LITTLE LIE is out in the spring. My debut illustrator picture book. 📕
08.01.2026 01:13 — 👍 38 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 1
YIPPEE, Elio! 🎉! CAN’T WAIT for everyone to see our:
⭐️MONSTER OG #3: OG RESCUES BOP!⭐️
Your illys are ADORABLE and HILARIOUS (as always! 🏆!), and I’m hoping all will ❤️ our funny l’il #STEM /kindness rhyming story like we do! GO, OG, GO! #kidlit #coverreveal @simonandschuster.bsky.social
🎈✨ Tiny book cover reveal! Coming later this year from Simon & Schuster, Monster OG book THREE! Thank you @amedyckman.bsky.social , @sarahpaintsnature, @andreabrownlit.bsky.social , and @jenrofe.bsky.social #kidlitart
15.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0😂! I got the haircut yesterday, but still no doggo. (Allergies are THE WORST! I’d have an entire PACK if I wasn’t allergic. Just Ame and her 39 dogs, walking to the library… 😂❤️🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶!)
16.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pick? I see one puppy, and one Alternative Mode of Transportation.
😉😂😂😂!
(Seriously, I ❤️ Great Danes! Just big SWEETIES!)
SOPHIE’S SQUASH is and will always be one of THE BEST picture books of ALL TIME, and I’ll fight anybody who dares to say otherwise!
(Which is, um, highly unlikely to happen. 1. I’m a pacifist. And 2. EVERYBODY ❤️s SOPHIE’S SQUASH! It’s just fun to imagine a bar fight over picture books, tho. 😂!)
I met Ame when her TEA PARTY RULES won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and my SOPHIE'S SQUASH was an honor book. It’s been a delight to see her books keep coming. I'm especially fond of DANDY. If you know, you know.
15.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0AWWW, SHUCKS and backatcha, Pat, m’friend! I’m constantly WOWed by YOU! 🏆! CHEERS to you and team on your new 📖—it’s a GOOD ONE! ⭐️😄❤️⭐️!
16.01.2026 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0