Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright

My pleasure! 🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚

Promotional poster for the I Love My Librarian Award 2026, offering a $5,000 prize, sponsored by the American Library Association and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

If you know a librarian who has gone above and beyond for their community, thank them for their work by nominating them for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award! ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian Nominations are accepted online now through Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.

Here & There + 10 Qs with debut author/illustrator Thea Lu = a perfect time for reflection and connections. - Erin Dealey, Children's Author Here & There + 10 Qs with debut author/illustrator Thea Lu = a perfect time for reflection and connections.

Thankful for you, friends. And HERE & THERE by debut author/illustrator Thea Lu -- about reflections, friendship, and connections -- gives so many of the feels of #Thanksgiving I had to share. erindealey.com/authors-and-... @ebyrbooks.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #KidlitMegaFeed #Skybrarians

Thanks for sharing @debbieohi.com 📚❤️

A #bookbirthday post from @erindealey.bsky.social about WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK by @hellonathanc.bsky.social & Pablo Pino @sourcebooks.bsky.social:

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Congrats @asiqueira.bsky.social Can’t wait to read this (and pair it with our upcoming Squirrel Draws #BigFeelings — @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social @lucianaillustra.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social

Love seeing our wintery SNOW GLOBE WISHES
(SleepingBearBks /Illus. ClaireShorrock) pop up via Pinterest/ Arin Solange at Home-- in such wonderful company!
@eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social
arinsolangeathome.com/best-childre... PS It's not just for Christmas! #Skybrarians

Thanks Erin, this was super fun!

Happy (belated-but-just-in-time-for-the-holidays) #BookBirthday to When Santa Wrote Back + 10 Qs with debut author Nathan Christopher - Erin Dealey, Children's Author We chat about rhyming, process, presents and a new holiday picture book: When Santa Wrote Back by debut author Nathan Christopher

Happy (belated-but-just-in-time-for-the-holidays) #BookBirthday WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK @hellonathanc.bsky.social , illus. Pablo Pino @sourcebooks.bsky.social
erindealey.com/book-birthda...
#Edusky #holidays #picturebooks #KidlitMegaFeed #Letters #BlogSky #Skybrarians

I am thrilled to be on @kidlit411.bsky.social's weekly big list of #kidlit links and #giveaways! @eastwestlit.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #beccastadtlander @unionsquarekids.bsky.social

📚❤️🇺🇦 Congrats @choldenko.bsky.social @kaaauthor.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

If you wonder what I’ve been doing lately… This has been such fun! And working with smart, talented high school kids gives you so much hope,friends. Opening Night tomorrow night. 🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟

Small plastic Sesame Street toys next to brightly colored Bert & Ernie in their house on Sesame Street under a rainbow next to a colorful modern city surrounded by flowers and a white cat in the garden.

Bert & Ernie's House
©2025 Cosgrove...
New Art Print in my Etsy shop!!
My homage to Bert & Ernie
#BertandErnie #sesameestreet #fanart #muppets #kidlit #80skid #illustration #artprint #kidlit #kidlitart
: link for my Etsy Shop in bio / Linktree

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Happy (belated) Book Birthday DARK SKIES = Five Qs with #debut picture book author Lindsey Hobson - Erin Dealey, Children's Author We chat with Lindsey Hobson about memory loss and light pollution in her new picture book Dark Skies

Let the Happy Book Birthday celebratrion continue! We chat with #debut author Lindsey B. Hobson about her new pb, DARK SKIES illus. Makenzie McCarthy (The Little Press) erindealey.com/book-birthda... #stargazing #memoryloss #BookBoost @pbpros.bsky.social

Since November is #kidlit #PictureBookMonth here are my first two books, which released 20 years ago (!) thanks to the amazing Caitlyn Dlouhy + Aladdin + Atheneum @simonkids.bsky.social Illus. Hanako Wakiyama #Skybrarians @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social

Congratulations! @senickel.bsky.social BEAR’S BIG IDEA @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social Illus. Il Sung Na

Pink haired me, middle aged white woman, in creepy fairy costume, black wings, black dress, striped cuffs silver star wand.

BOO!

#fairy #goth #halloween #artist #illustrator #kidlit #kidlitart #nytbestseller

And that’s a wrap on my book tour! Back home in beautiful Switzerland, where everything is now golden. 🍂🍁
#booktour #backhome #autumn #picturebookauthor #childtensbookaithor #kidlit #switzerland #lavaux

Reading Rainbow revival four episodes on KidZuko on YouTube. Mychal smiles and holds the four books in the stills for each clip. They each have an assortment of views.

Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁

Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨

Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌

“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈

@mychal3ts.bsky.social and @maggietokudahall.bsky.social so generously shared their book and library wisdom on a panel about book banning with @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social and I to launch our book just days before this visit cancellation.

Grateful for our bookish community!

Cover of the picture book Late Today by Jungyoon Huh, illustrated by Myungae Lee, translated by Aerin Park. A black kitten sits under a car in the rain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223924760-late-today?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zdqP0ZT9bw&rank=1

Marvelous drawings of a traffic jam
and that rain-heavy sky
and so many looking away,
as a kitten crosses traffic.
But someone...
_screeech!_

A meditation
a provocation
a call to be late...

just in time.

I kept thinking,
"We're all this kitten."

👍🏼📚

@ebyrbooks.bsky.social

Re-posting this review with 📚👍🏼 to make the Kidlit Boosters feed!

B/w pencil drawing of Sabrina the teenage witch and her black cat on a witches broom under the moon. Next to drawing us an orange glass jackolantern and two fun size reeses pb cups

🎃 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
©2025 Cosgrove
Halloween week drawing…decided to do a Sabrina sketch
#kidlit #blackcat #noai #witch #halloween #pencil #comics #archiecomics #childrensbooks #sabrinatheteenagewitchedit #kidlitart #mg #graphicnovel #ya

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Congrats @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social —to Illus. Jade vs. The Claw Machine by Margaret Chiu Greanias, @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
as announced in @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social #KidlitMegaFeed #Skybrarians

"I can’t say enough about this beautiful book, my friends.
Read it. Share it." —@erindealey.bsky.social

Happy Book Birthday to LATE TODAY + 9 Qs with author Jungyoon Huh - Erin Dealey, Children's Author 9 Questions with author Jungyoon Huh about the English publication of Late Today - translated by Aerin Park.

Happy Book Birthday to LATE TODAY + 9 Qs with author Jungyoon Huh erindealey.com/book-birthda...
@ebyrbooks.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #Skybrarians
translated by Aerin Park, illus. Myungae Lee -- a gorgeous #picturebook which asks: Are you ever too busy to be kind? #edusky #kidlit

Halloween illustration in dark gem colors. A jack-o’-lantern carved into a house for a squirrel, hands out candy to tiny animal trick or treaters… bat dressed as dino, mouse dressed as alligator, caterpillar dressed as fish. Under the moon and some twinkle lights of candy corn.

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet©2025 Cosgrove

What are you gonna be for Halloween this year? 🖤🧡🖤🧡🎃🎃🎃🎃

#humandrawing #kidlit #bunny #noai #dressup #trickortreat #childrensbooks #kidlitart #halloween #spooky #scary #costume #pumpkin #candycorn
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Huzzah!

Also, YES, and....

#Theater #Improv

Just had a fun Google Meet with DEAR EARTH...FROM YOUR FRIENDS IN ROOM 5 --illus @lupencita.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social
--and Mrs. Lopez' third grade Earth Heroes from Pinesprings Prep in Holly Springs, North Carolina. #Skybrarians
> #Writing is a Language #Art!<

Coming in March from @redcometpress and already with a #StarredReview BARBED WIRE BETWEEN US by @pragmaticmom.bsky.social is a “significant portrayal of ongoing US civil rights violations, exposed through the experiences of young children" www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...