Charlene Chua

It’s not free but I think Carrd is best value for (relatively little) money and you can get your own domain (domain is extra).

Otherwise… you can get by with a portfolio hosted on Cara or Behance. Still better than social media accounts, IMO.

What FREE online illustrator portfolio options are people using in 2026? Wix still a good option? #kidlit #illustration

Tomorrow!

To make it easier, copy and paste the correct hashtag to go with your post:

#KidLitArtPostcard

Illustration of a child in a pink shirt and bright pink shoes, running with a bright yellow mailbag, spilling colorful postcards. Text above reads KidLitArtPostcard. Text below reads March 5th. Art by Gina Perry

Tomorrow! #KidLitArtPostcard day! This June marks the 5th anniversary of the event. I'm cooking up some fun ideas to celebrate, starting with a logo refresh. I can't wait to see everyone's art! Be sure to triple check your hashtag!!!! #kidlit

Maybe share the link for Glaze & Nightshade?

@theglazeproject.bsky.social

Formatting for what purpose? For the event?

They will, but sometimes it's more expedient and other times it's more... leisurely. #kidlitchat

Get paid, hopefully *lolsob* #kidlitchat

I have become so mad that the most fictional part of this movie is when the public hear Oswald talking shit about them, they all desert him. Apparently in reality they just vote for him even more 🙄

TOPIC: Guess what? It's time for another quarterly check-in . . . already! Share what you've accomplished in the past three months: baby steps, or giant leaps, full landings or near misses . . . celebrate whatever has carried you FORWARD. #kidlitchat

Artists! I am looking for a Jewish illustrator for a middle-grade project focusing on Jewish history, practice, and culture. If your style feels fun, MG-appropriate, and both editorial & narrative, please drop a link or DM! (And editor & agent friends, if you have someone to rec, it's appreciated!)

Picture book style illustration of a group of girls wishing upon a lantern, with their faces lit by the warm glow of lanterns #KidLitArt #LanternFestival

Give. Children. Peace.

Literary fiction is probably the best existing category. But it's pretty broad so quite often I'm not interested... yet I guess the ones I do like would probably all fall under that category.

So maybe a sub-section of literary fiction? IDK what though 😅

Mostly it seems like ‘Japanese & European translations’ 😅

‘Nothing much’ as in, nothing dramatic. No giant swooning romance, no huge explosions & chases, no 300 pages of anxiety coz the murderer is in the house…

But actually a lot happens, it just happens quietly and indirectly.

There should be a category for novels like ‘stories where it seems nothing much happens’ coz I think maybe those are the kinds of novels I tend to like.

I don’t really like the trend but I’m also not sure I understand how this gives them a lot to work with? Did you mean like with a image generator? Everyone posting hasn’t been a kid for a long time so, in a sense, I can’t see them at direct risk otherwise.

Thanks!

In Singapore, the festival is known as Chap Goh Mei. I am told ‘chap goh’ means 15, as it is the 15th day of the new lunar year.

Interestingly it is also considered Chinese Valentines Day, and I spent 27 years in SG totally not knowing this 😅

I am also very wuthuring sometimes thanks to IBS 😅💨

It’s the less posh version 😅

Moby Dick was actually also just The Whale.

Although from what my husband told me of the plot (he just read it), perhaps it should have been ‘an assortment of New England whaling facts and statistics, also featuring a white whale and a dude with OCD’

Art from the back cover of Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival. Amy holds a lantern and she stands next to her dad. Behind them are a string of lanterns against the night sky.

Cover for Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival by Kat Zhang and illustrated by Charlene Chua.

Amy wishes everyone a happy Lantern Festival 🏮!

This festival marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations, and features (you guessed it) lanterns & eating sweet rice balls called tang yuan.

#lny #cny #kidlit #kidlitart

Yeah I kinda thought it was something close to withering, but oh well.

This is like when I learned what ‘corrugated’ meant and it was less cool than what I imagined it to be (I can’t recall what I previously thought it was though).

I guess Wuthering Heights does sound better than Windy Hill though.

Today I realized I never knew what ‘wuthering’ actually meant.

So I looked it up.

It… just means windy 🌬️

Canadian #kidlit pals 👇

The Lane Anderson Award honours the very best science writing in Canada today, both in the adult and young reader categories.

I have said that if I could afford to consistently see a therapist to get better, I probably wouldn’t have half the problems plaguing me in the first place 🙄💸

Some day librarians will be able to just look after books again.

But till then -

They go straight to my spam folder so I don’t see them anymore. But occasionally I do check the folder and see them there, so I guess it’s still going round, like a chain letter that won’t die.