Bill Canterbury

📖Cover reveal for Farm Shark, upcoming in June 2026!

Words by me, illustrated by Maddie Frost, published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

YouTube video by ReadAloudwithBella 🦖 My Teacher Is a Dinosaur! | A Jurassic Read Aloud Adventure

A fun read-aloud of My Teacher is a Dinosaur! from "ReadAloudwithBella" on YouTube. Thanks Bella!
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If you're at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday 4/27, stop by the Mysterious Galaxy booth #368 and say hello! I'll be signing books from the "My Life is Weird" series at 10:15. Your choice of Sharpie color -- wow! Act fast!
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If you're at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday 4/27, stop by the Mysterious Galaxy booth #368 and say hello! I'll be signing books from the "My Life is Weird" series at 10:15. Your choice of Sharpie color -- wow! Act fast!
#kidlit

First time "My Mom is a Mermaid!" was spotted in the wild, at Children's Book World in Los Angeles. Written by me, illustrated by @jeffharter.bsky.social. Thanks so much to CBW, on insta @cbwchildrensbooks.

Button Collection - Keep Homestead Museum The Keep Homestead Museum has one of the largest rotating button collections of antique and vintage buttons on display in the U.S.

😄haha
Actual buttons museum:
keephomesteadmuseum.org/button-colle...

Had fun chatting with Betsy about 90s music, backup shoelaces, button museums, and the upcoming My Life is Weird series! 🧜‍♀️🦄🦖

Publishes 4/1/25, ✍️by me, 🎨by @jeffharter.bsky.social
@randomhousekids.bsky.social #kidlit

🎉 2 books #GIVEAWAY 🎉

MY DAD IS A UNICORN! 🦄
MY MOM IS A MERMAID! 🧜‍♀️

The My Life is Weird! series from Random House,
✍️by me, 🎨by Jeff Harter, debuting 4/1/25.
"Roaring good comedic inspiration!" - Kirkus Reviews

Like, follow and repost to enter!
Winner randomly picked Mon 3/24/25 6pm PDT 🎈
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A roaring good review from Kirkus for the My Life is Weird! series, debuting on April 1st. Written by me and illustrated by Jeff Harter (insta @jeffbharter).
@randomhousekids.bsky.social
#kidlit #picturebook

Hurray for the world's #1 mischief maker and a pretty darn good author too 🏅🎉

Huge congratulations to @amedyckman.bsky.social for receiving the Geisel award this morning for Bat, Cat & Rat, a very funny series 🤣 from a VERY funny author/mischief maker! 🤪
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What 10,000 picture books looks like. Los Angeles Central Library 1/19/25.
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Loved this poorly translated French comic book

Perfect!

I made have to light and photograph the final spread that has a little kid alone in a foreboding pagoda. Very spooky!

Nice! I just posted a little photoshoot of Gorey's 1982 pop-up version of The Dwindling Party 😱

Gorey made a creepy pop-up version in 1982 of The Dwindling Party. 😱 I just some pics from it.

I just posted some pics of Gorey's pop-up version of The Dwindling Party from 1982, lit up to make even spookier 😱

Found this weird Edward Gorey pop-up book version of The Dwindling Party from 1982. I dorked out and added some lighting. The book's ingenious tabs make a rowboat sink and winged monsters soar off clutching parents.

What other dark stories would make great pop-ups?

#kidlit #edwardgorey

He would have just kept sitting there forever 😂

When you buy your dog the wrong size coat 🤦‍♂️
#dogs #dogsofbluesky

Someone gave me a painting of my dog and I could not be happier
#dogsofbluesky

omg I will track that down!

Lol it was the only reason I saw the movie and they had Javier Bardem wear a bowler hat (sigh)

#kidlit #picturebooks

Most people don't know that SAM AND DAVE DIG A HOLE by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen almost ended up with a different title. I wrote down a transcript of the editorial call. #kidlit #picturebooks

I was always less fascinated by the character of Lyle the crocodile than I was by "Signor Hector P. Valenti, Star of stage and screen." What was with the odd hat? Why did he keep it in his fridge?

The House on 88th Street, by Bernard Waber, 1962

I'm going to post some pages from Enchanted Lion books that I have. They always amaze me!

Oyvind Torseter's THE HOLE (2013, Enchanted Lion) is a wonderfully odd picture book #kidlit #picturebooks

My agency is not yet on Bluesky, but I figured it’d be nice to put together a starter pack of the authors and/or illustrators of BookEnds Literary who’ve already made it here.

Say hi to my agency siblings!

#starterpack #booksky #kidlit

go.bsky.app/Uw5hJaE