Digital graphic. Features BOP logo, as well as logo for Tundra Books. Text reads "Congratulations! Bologna Prize for Best Children's Publisher of the Year. Winner, North America."
The Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year winners were announced on Monday. Tundra Books was named Best Children's Publisher of the Year in North America. Learn more at kidsbooknews.ca/blogs/news/tundra-books-...
Forgot most fun and favourite way: hanging out at my lovely local independent kids bookstore! #kidlitchat
Forgot Query Manager! Also my critique groups, workshops, social media #kidlitchat
Publishers Weekly emails, SCBWI, especially Deb Halverson's State of the Children's Publishing Market, awards, and best of lists in various media. I do find it helpful to have the big picture sense of the market. Helps me position myself both in my own mind and heart, and in my pitches #kidlitchat
Picture book titled 111 Trees, by Rina Singh, illustrated by Marianne Ferrer
Thanks @picturebookseh.bsky.social for sharing this inspiring and empowering story by Rina Singh @storiesbysingh.bsky.social. Just like Sundar Paliwal, each of us has the potential to grow through adversity, and to make our world better. Each act, each tree, each story, makes a difference.
Books for a wide audience (like kids at bedtime). I find many books focus on very specific experiences of place, or events, or culture. And many young children have no way of connecting with those stories. Have you noticed any gaps?
I'm interested in some sort of discussion of current themes, topics, tone etc in published kidlit. I definitely notice trends - and gaps #kidlitchat
#GIVEAWAY
To celebrate the launch of #PictureBooksEh 2026, we’re giving away 4 manuscript crits & many PBs! Details on website below. To enter:
1. Follow @picturebookseh.bsky.social
2. Like + repost this post (extra entry for tagging a friend)
3. Winners announced Mar. 27 at 9 am #kidlit #cankidlit
Middle Grade Hub Pitch Event Small Peer-to-Peer polishing groups.
Hey #KidLitChat!
If you're working on getting a submission package ready for pitching, @middlegradehub.bsky.social has a great series of critique events coming up you should definitely check out.
They're going to be doing workshops for pitches, queries, first pages, and more!
I have entered competitions because every submission got one or more evaluations, and I found that constructive, both for providing feedback, and for creating a deadline and motivation. #kidlitchat
#kidlitchat For those who haven't heard, there will be an official #MSWL day on Thursday this week. If you're currently in the query trenches or will be soon, it's a great resource and may put some wonderful agents on your radar based on what they're looking for.
A tree on a riverbank chewed by a beaver
If a tree doesn't fall in the forest, do you hear the beaver? (And what does a swearing beaver sound like anyway?)
Brilliant! #kidlitchat
"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." - Carl Sagan ✨ 🌙 🔭
What do you like to learn about?
#carlsagan #inspirationalquote #brainhealth #learningisfun
Submissions reopen 3/1/26 for the Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award for authors over 50 who have not been traditionally published in the children's lit field. SCBWI members are eligible for this grant of $500 for their work-in-progress and free tuition to SCBWI conference. bit.ly/3YS1KPO
Yes!! My stories always stew in my head for quite awhile. And while I can approach revisions methodically, I need to wait for that precious calm, inspired (cup of tea on my desk) moment to be ready to bang out that first draft #kidlitchat
Ohhh... as a "not yet published" picture book author, this question is therapist level piercing! I take revisions as seriously as writing. My style is to get a first draft done, then get out my red pen and read it aloud. And repeat. #kidlitchat
Maybe just a coincidence that NYT ran this story at the end of Family Literacy Week... "teach reading well", make it enjoyable", and "model reading". Working on it!
Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
The science of how and why it feels so good to be out on the trail:
"We should think of the human body not as a collection of separate systems, but like a forest itself - a complex ecosystem with interlinking reactions".
How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I never feel guilty about impulse shopping at my local independent children's bookstore! Stopped by today to pick up a book and of course ended up sitting down and reading... #kidlitchat
Gah. #kidlitchat
I absolutely love this line from Our Lake: "His smile is crooked, as if half of him is happy and the other half is not.
I absolutely love this line from Our Lake: "His smile is crooked, as if half of him is happy and the other half is not.
#kidlitchat happens every Tuesday at 9 pm Eastern, 6 Pacific and lasts an hour. It's an opportunity for anyone working with children's books to gather virtually via the hashtag (which is live all the time, of course). The easiest way to participate is with deck.blue (similar to Tweetdeck). Join us!
This question makes me laugh- there's so much of my heart and my passions in all my stories! I think that's why I enjoy writing. My PB themes are learning to read, SEL, and the wonderful wild world. I want to amuse & engage readers of all ages - hopefully publishers and agents too! 🤞 #kidlitchat
I started volunteering in a local park as a pandemic project and dug out this bramble patch. Crazy how fast the trees grew with the brambles gone. We planted native plants, and this winter I found a bird nest in one of the Nootka rose bushes - this project feels like an important accomplishment!
Love Dorothy's art - and artful approach to resolutions!
Absolutely... Stories help us understand, learn and grow into our potential, and to develop our capacity to imagine.
"Children who read, and are read to, do better at school. Actually, I don't care about them doing better at school, though others will. What I care about is the climate of the mind, the leap into suggestions of good and bad, of moral imperatives, of social possibilities, of other worlds."
