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Kidlit author who teaches creative writing + 🧳 Traveler 🐉 Maker of dragon eggs ❤️ Dad he/him 🧹 Spell Sweeper & more Rep'd by Rachel Letofsky https://linktr.ee/leefodi @canscaip.bsky.social
This is waiting for my son when he gets home today: I’M BUSY - with illustrations by one of our household’s favourite #kidlit creators, @debbieohi.com, and written by @michaelianblack.bsky.social. (My son’s stuffy is getting a sneak-peek before him!)
@simonkids.bsky.social #ImBusy
The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from Georgia O’Keefe:
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
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I downloaded the fun door-hanger template by @debbieohi.com for the new picture book, I’M BUSY, by her & @michaelianblack.bsky.social (out next week!)
The 7-yr-old decided he was busy stopping his fav stuffy from causing mischief…
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This author’s eye brings you a dancing starfish. Unless you see something different . . .
#authorsEye #artistsEye #betterthanAI #humaneye
In my recent interview on the Edu-Kate podcast, I celebrate one of my favourite passions: #creativeeducation.
Kate and I spoke about strategies to implement in the classroom—and home—to help improve our kids mental, emotional, & overall creative health.
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The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from Austin Kleon:
“What if you replaced your dread with curiosity?”
More on my blog:
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I’ve been enjoying @teachergorman’s new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Gives me lots of Terry Pratchett vibes. You can check out the Youtube or podcast versions here:
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Detail of a whimsical sea creature I noticed last summer while we were wandering down the street in Halifax. Brought to you by #AEye.
#authorsEye #artistsEye #betterthanAI #humaneye
The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from Cynthia Kadohata:
"Books are music for my mind and my imagination.”
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Love these gorgeous fox doorknockers I’m adding to my collection. They were gifted to me by the principal of a local school after I delivered my workshop where we designed secret doorways! My son has already put a claim on one of them . . .
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In today’s school visit, we imagined characters through their suitcases! Taking inspiration from my book The Secret of Zoone, we developed fun ideas for characters such as Candy Smuggler, Shapeshifting Spy, Magical Creature Spy, etc., & filled their suitcases with the items that defined them.
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Ooh! Love these dragon eggs that students crafted in connection to Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers. Gorgeous!
#creativeeducation #kendrakandlestar #schoolvisit #creativewritingworkshop #authorvisit
Fun school visit today talking all things Kendra and Zoone. And I might have just achieved the pinnacle of my career; Kendra’s Land of Een made it on the classroom’s signpost pointing to fantastical realms!
#schoolvisit #authorvisit
Thank you!
03.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My favourite part of the fridge (not shown here) was the front door, which had a reminder for a tooth-dirtying appointment at the dentist!
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Presenting to my son’s own classroom is always a different sort of author visit! We had fun designing the contents of a monster’s fridge—here the kids have decided to temporarily abandon their own fridges and add to the one I’m modelling at the front.
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The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from E.L. Konigsburg:
“Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.”
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Reading Lights Turns 10!
You might not know that Vancouver is home to a unique project to celebrate BC kidlit—a project that's celebrating its ten-year anniversary!
Find out more here: www.vpl.ca/readinglights
A weary wooden post puts on his sleeping cap and prepares for a long slumber. Brought to you by #AEye.
#authorsEye #artistsEye #betterthanAI #humaneye
The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from Grace Lin:
“Your imagination will create many friends.”
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In my imagination, this a drowning snowperson. Did they run afoul of the dreaded Snowflake Gang?
#authorsEye #artistsEye #AEye #betterthanAI #humaneye
The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
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A frozen forest in miniature. When I spotted this on a winter walk, I imagined tiny explorers trekking through this foreboding—but beautiful—landscape.
#authorsEye #artistsEye #AEye #betterthanAI #humaneye
Here’s my first quote of the year for the teens in my creative writing classes, which comes from Pam Grossman:
“I have actually come to believe that creativity IS magic.”
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From our snowshoe walk on New Year’s Day, this author’s eye offers you a witch or wizard of the wintery wood, cloaked in a mantle of snow, head bowed in supplication.
#authorsEye #artistsEye #AEye
The inside of the bell of a faux-antique phonograph, which I encountered during our family summer vacation. Time to sound in the new year! Brought to you by AEye (Author’s Eye, which is far more gratifying than AI).
#authorsEye #artistsEye #AEye #betterthanAI #humaneye #humancontent
It’s time for my final quote of the year for the teens in my creative writing classes, and comes from Dorothy Allison:
“Storytelling can be a strategy to help you make sense out of your life.”
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Classic Vancouver rain sneeze!
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A photo of a simple tangle of rope, snapped on our summer holiday—if you ask me, it’s a mermaid clinging to the corner of a lobster cage. Once she was pulled from the depths of the ocean and struck by sunlight, she was transformed.
#authorsEye #AEye
The quote of the week for the kids in my creative writing classes comes from Brian Eno:
“Children learn through play. Adults play through art.”
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