Charlene Chua

A graphic with picture books from The Malaika Series reads, "Celebrating 10 Years of Malaika." The book covers feature collage-style illustrations of a little black girl in different costumes.

🎊 MALAIKA'S COSTUME, the first book in The Malaika Series, published 10 YEARS AGO today! 🎈

This series is a heartwarming collection of books that follow a girl's journey from living in the Caribbean to Canada, celebrating family, childhood, and culture.

🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/4mQI50YmZkU

Fun fact! If you share this starter pack around, the really cool artists in it will get more followers, and I think that’s really neat 🥰

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These houses look totally liveable btw, not like abandoned farmhouses you have to fix up.

They seem relatively urban, like you can walk 20min to a train station.

I just saw an IG post for some lovely and insanely cheap (well… by what I’m used to) houses in Japan.

I have no idea how easy it is to actually live in said house if you don’t already have some sort of Japanese visa though, *sob sob*

Second Story Press: New logo (sort of) Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

I just noticed that @secondstory.bsky.social Second Story Press has a new logo—which I never noticed when it was announced last year—so I’m giving a little love to this amazing #Canadian publisher. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2026/02/seco...

Does it have gamut warning for CMYK?

📚 Ending off #FreedomToRead Week with this bizarre story! In 2023, READ ME A STORY, STELLA was mistakenly flagged by a public library system as containing sexually explicit material due to the author's last name being Gay.

🔗 Explore the Stella and Sam series here: https://ow.ly/VuyE50YljBG

It is manuscript wishlist today, if you posted for that I'm guessing the new follows are from there.

Thanks again for the lovely banner!

Shameless plug for #diversifymyart. Maybe it will inspire you! #kidlitart bsky.app/profile/lari...

I'm glad you pull over to note it down and not while you're driving 😅 #kidlitart

Thanks for another lovely #KidLitArt chat!

Thanks again to @autumnseybert.bsky.social for Feb's lovely banner, and to @victoriamaderna.com for March's banner!

Please join us again in March for the next chat!

Illustration of mice charpening a pencil with a hand crank pencil sharpener. Words read Shop Talk, #Kidlitart. Illustration by @victoriamaderna.com

That's a wrap!!! Thanks everyone for joining @weyakindesigns.bsky.social & Charlene Chua !

March's topic will be Shop Talk, featuring a new banner by Victoria Maderna

Join us on March 26, 9pm EST/6pm PST for the next chat!

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Er... if the museum isn't in town, then no? lol

Did they rename it? We did go to a museum but that wasn't the name #kidlitart

He's also a very sweet guy. We got to hang out a bit the last time I went back to Singapore. I think he bought breakfast lol. #kidlitart

I still wanna learn to crochet! One... day... #kidlitart

Boredom is really good for inspiration #kidlitart

Congrats! #kidlitart

Cool! Love the graphic! #kidlitart

My big kidlit win is that we launched season 2 of the KidLit Deconstruction Zone Podcast & I redid graphics! (Making new episode thumbnails has been a learning experience.)

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#KidLitArt #writingpodcast

Oh cool! I hope you like it! I have the 2nd one on hold and I hope to pick it up tomorrow! #kidlitart

Wait, it's a real place? 😮 #kidlitart

I really want to go back to Newfoundland in late Spring/early Summer. But what I really want is a driver to take me around. The landscape we saw last time around St. John's is very cool, but I hear it's even better in the more rural areas. #kidlitart

Bonus round: You have free tickets to go on a trip to somewhere that you find very inspiring. Where are you going?

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That sounds so nice. Practically a PB story already! #kidlitart

I loved his work on D before I even knew who he was (or D, for the matter).

I saw a jigsaw puzzle in a store long ago, didn't know who painted it or what it was, just loved it and still do. #kidlitart

Ooo desert... do you go out to see the stars at night? I think it's quite pretty there? #kidlitart

Ah. Insects, the bane of all that lovely outside inspiration goodness 😅 #kidlitart

A4: I think traveling to places I want to see is good for inspiration. Particularly if they involve the sea, or a historical cemetery, for some reason!

alt: I used to have a space to stick postcards from other illustrators. I don't have it in my new studio though, need another solution #kidlitart

Q4: Are there places or settings that you find inspiring? Tell us about them.

alt: Is there a way you set up your own space to make it feel more inspiring?


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