MariaK.

I have nine trad-pubbed picture books under my belt (soon to be 10).

If I'd waited until I was ready...

...if I'd waited until I knew what I was doing...

I'D.
HAVE.
NONE.

Mini character design ✌️don’t forget to smile today 🙃

#kidlitartist #kidlitart #kidlitauthor #characterdesign #scbwi

DOUBLE FEATURE! It's Season's Readings with Della Ross Ferreri! Hello readers, writers, and fellow buffet enthusiasts like us! Today we’re serving up a delicious double feature with another fabulous Sleeping Bear Press author, and this book is almost too sweet to ...

So many fun holiday books to read 😍

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It's Season's Readings with Sonja Anderson! Hello readers, writers, and Dala Horse lovers of every kind! We have an especially heartwarming treat for you today. The lovely Sonja Anderson is here sharing her new book, A Christmas Wish for Little...

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promo poster for Monument Colorado's Small Town Christmas Market featuring children's author, Roxanne Troup at the Covered Treasures Bookstore. Roxanne will be signing her award-winning picture books from noon to 2pm on December 6 at 105 Second Street in Monument Colorado.

#SupportLocal this Saturday by joining me at the Covered Treasures Bookstore in #Colorado. I'll be signing #books and celebrating the #holidays by supporting #indiebookstores. #kidlit #picturebooks

It's Season's Readings with Kate Allen Fox & Editor Naomi Krueger! Hi readers, writers, and lovers of all things winter! December 1st has arrived, and with it comes the start of our Season’s Readings celebration - a cozy week dedicated to winter holidays, crisp weath...

The newest Seasons of KidLit is up! Check it out for some great tips on writing holiday books and a fun giveaway.
☺️❄️

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Sea turtle
Gecko
Coyote
Black bear
Moose

It's Thanksgiving in the USA today. Here are 18 books about Thanksgiving from a Native American/Indigenous viewpoint.

#thanksgiving #unitedstates #nativeamerican #nativeindian #indigenous #firstthanksgiving #thanksgivingbooks #picturebooks #kidlit #nonfiction #bookpost #bookrecs #booksky💙📚#nov2025

Mychal smiles in Indigenous purple shirt, holding the book CHOOCH HELPED by Andrea L. Rogers and illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz

We raise our library voices to celebrate our Indigenous neighbors 💜

How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨

Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡

Giving Thanks with Halmoni by Kathleen Choi & Sook Nyul Choi,  illustrated by Il Sung Na Giving Thanks with Halmoni: Celebrating Chuseok, the Korean Harvest Festival by Kathleen Choi & Sook Nyul Choi,  illustrated by Il Sung Na. Red Comet Press, 2025. 9781636551616 Rating: 1-5…

GIVING THANKS WITH HALMONI from @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social “is an informative and warm story about celebrating this Korean harvest festival, with some lovely intermingling of traditions and openness to new experiences” ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/g...

Lol thank you April!

This was such a fun read! If you're into bilingual picture books it's definitely worth checking out🔥

#kidlit

A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏

If you give yourself a deadline...
the toddler will instantly get sick,
the baby will start teething,
and the check engine light will appear

always 😅
okay, maybe 90%

#writingcommunity #kidlit #querying

Congratulations, Katie! 🥳

The Best YA Books of 2025: Stellar Picks in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Comics Here are the best YA books of 2025, including Book Riot's picks, trade journal picks, and more.

Dive into the Best YA Books of 2025, including the titles we've picked at Book Riot, titles selected by review journals, and titles from other bookish outlets.

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Here are the winners of the National Book Awards, including Rabih Alameddine and Omar El Akkad. The winners of this year’s National Book Awards have just been announced at a ritzy gala in downtown Manhattan. Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) won the …

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💫📦😍 Oh my stars… this is what happens when you get your author copies and do one video take in a rush before school pickup—you say “it’s *so* beautiful” over and over because… it’s *so* beautiful!!! Hope you enjoy this sneak peek of SPARKLES FOR SUNNY! ✨💖✨

@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

Why Editor Andrew Karre Can’t Imagine YA Literature Without Sexual Content 'If it became impossible to publish YA novels with sex in them, I think it would effectively become impossible to publish YA novels.'

Why Editor Andrew Karre Can’t Imagine YA Literature Without Sexual Content | PEN America

Our 3rd Annual "From Trash to Treasure" Kidlit Poetry Contest! Little Thoughts Press and the Revision Raccoon are excited to announce the return of our “From Trash to Treasure” Kidlit Poetry Contest!

Our 3rd annual From Trash to Treasure #kidlit poetry contest opens on Thursday, November 13th!

This year's special guest judge is last year's winner @tracierenee.bsky.social!

Check out all the contest details and polish up those discarded darlings!

www.littlethoughtspress.com/post/our-3rd...

I loved "Forget Me Not" and "Louder Than Hunger". I'm revising my first mg in verse right now too!

How Nonfiction (and a Calkins Creek Book!) Helped Me Nail a Final Jeopardy! Question - Astra Publishing House In my house, we’re loyal Jeopardy! watchers. Every evening at 7 p.m., you’ll find my family glued to the TV, testing our trivia skills. I have to admit—I usually do pretty well. […]

Let's celebrate! It's #NonfictionNovember!!!
Did you know that reading nonfiction #picturebooks can help you win #jeopardy? Don't miss this incredible post by Astra Books for Young Readers Marketing Director Kerry McManus: astrapublishinghouse.com/2025/11/06/c...

Quote from Judy Blume reads "Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." An illustration shows a young girl reading a book on a green bean bag. The cover of the book says "I love to read." Art is by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, based on a character from The Pain and The Great One.

"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume

#CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooks #LibrarySky

Do you write for children? 📚
Do you write spooky stories? 👻
Listen to @kdzpodcast.bsky.social podcast or watch the most recent episode on YouTube for tips on how to write a spooktacular kid's book:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-n...
#KidLit #booksforkids #gilbertandtheghost @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social

Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone.

bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

The 15th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest aahhhrrrooooOOO!!! Adder’s fork and wool of bat! It’s time for. . . The 15th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest!!! ~ for children’s writers ~

The Halloweensie Writing Contest is open! Come read all the fun, spooky entries if you dare🎃

#kidlit #writingcommunity

The 15th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest aahhhrrrooooOOO!!! – Susanna Leonard Hill share.google/bUnTElz5RNMJ...

Don’t Let the Publishing Industry Get You Down (It Happens to the Best of Us) Over the course of the last couple of weeks I’ve talked to college students, masters program students, and professionals at Comic Con in my roles as author and freelance writer and former editor. I…

After four rejections in two days, this was heartening to remember. Keep your chin up #querying #writingcommunity #kidlit 🫶

Literary Hub » Don’t Let the Publishing Industry Get You Down (It Happens to the Best of Us) share.google/wHDQ8MRKUSI1...

digital illustration of a cricket boy going to school and waving to his mom watching him from a tree stump house

digital illustration of a magpie inkcap humanoid character riding a magpie, flying above orange fields

digital illustration of a postman panda blowing a post horn and summoning various animal postmen to help them deliver letters

digital illustration of a cozy tree stump house in the middle of a dark forest

Hiii, it’s my birthday and, as they say, the best gift you could give me is sharing my art!! Thank u 💛

The second trade review is in for LEYENDAS/LEGENDS: 60 LATINE PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD! Thank you so much to @sljournal for this lovely review!

@chroniclebooks.bsky.social @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social @imzeferino.bsky.social

#booksky #kidlit #middlegradebooks

Whoops, have definitely done all of these things🤣 Happy Scorpio Season!
♏

#writingcommunity #kidlit #scorpio