A lower YA/upper MG #book that follows a trans teen navigating HS, changing friendships and relationships bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #kidlit #bookrecommendation #transrights #lgbtqbooks #librarian #librarians
Book cover✨The Girl Who Drank the Moon
I’ve made some adjustments to this book cover for my portfolio since I last shared it on here! I loved adding in all the little details that tie into the story💙
#art #kidlit #kidlitart #thegirlwhodrankthemoon #bookcover @littlebrownyr.bsky.social
Two fun books about food - “A Quick Trip to the Store” by Sam Wedelich and “How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans” written by David LaRochelle and illustrated by Mark Fearing. #kidlit
Thanks, @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social for this honest look at the industry.
#kidlit #writingcommunity #amquerying
open.substack.com/pub/vickyweb...
Day 4 of #Kidlithahaweek An Editor's Guide to Humor with Michele McAvoy @brittanypomales.bsky.social www.brittanypomales.com/2026/04/04/k... #kidlit #humor #books #writingcommunity
THE WICKED WRENCH IN THE WEST! #Oz #WizardOfOz
Read this Viking Bunnies story right now at https://www.vikingbunnies.com ! New site, games, and stories coming in July 2026!
#Reading #Books #Cute #KidLit #Rabbits #Vikings #BedtimeStories #SelfPublishing #AuthorsOfBluesky #NoAI
Day 3 of #Kidlithahaweek We Have A Right to Know with Neil Sharpson @brittanypomales.bsky.social www.brittanypomales.com/2026/04/02/k... #kidlit #humor #writingcommunity #books
On a shelf somewhere is a book about balloons. Except the book doesn't want to be about balloons. I am that book. #kidlit #childrensbooks #author #bookbuzz #readthis www.amazon.com/This-about-Bal...
Truly delightful. Yes, I’m biased - but if representation makes me this happy, imagine what it does for a child! #Disability #KidLit
as it is for mine. Books like this in the world make happy. My husband picked it out for me at the library. #Disability #BookSky #KidLit #PictureBook
Book 57 of 2026 - Mama Car by Lucy Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George. Delightful #PictureBook about (and by!) a mom in a wheelchair, and in bed, like me! The chair is normal life for this family, #Disability #BookSky #KidLit
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
ESCAPE FROM THE NINJA HAMSTERS! #ATeam #TheATeam
The Viking Bunnies are #ChildrensBooks with #Parody parents will love! Read this right now at https://www.vikingbunnies.com #free!
#IndieBooks #KidLit #BedtimeStories #SelfPublishing #PictureBooks #Reading #Books #NoAI
Nice that your School visit went really well as well as your other projects.
Friday #kidlit recap: My big win was Getting my taxes done and sent off! Whew! And I had fresh Postcard art for this month.
If you buy this book, in a few days your Alexa will beep and say, "You have one new notification from Amazon.com. A no-good worthless book has arrived." #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlit #inventingreality www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...
Day 4. Funny picture books. From my shelf.
DOODLE FLUTE by @danielpinkwater.bsky.social Spoon has pro running shoes and a VCR (amongst other things). Mintz has a plaid hat and doodle flute.
A must read for budding flautists or amateur hat makers.
#kidlithahaweek #kidlit #picturebooks
Six yellow sticky notes are stuck to the concrete surrounding a pool. Each note has a single word, writing THE SAVAGES HAVE ENTERED THE POOL. The slide also says “An Agent’s Guide, Middle Grade Contemporary, 44K words, by Megan Hirsch.”
The slide says “Pitch.” It shows a yellow sticky note stuck to the concrete surrounding a pool. There is water splashed near the note. The text reads: “Clara Brody is a lonely twelve-year-old until she meets a girl vacuuming her sidewalk. For a rich kid, Clara has a whole lot of nothing. She’s invisible to her narcissistic mom, terrified of saying the wrong thing, and overtly bullied by her best friend, Macy. But Clara’s too busy scrambling to find a ride from her grandmother’s house to Macy’s big annual pool party to notice how awful things are. If Clara hopes to have any friends in eighth grade, she needs to be at this party. Or else. But Clara just can’t get a break. Nobody will give her a ride, especially her icy-cold grandmother who communicates through sticky notes; her mom has run off to Fiji and left her with no credit card and no way to contact her; plus, Macy doesn’t even want her at the pool party. When Clara meets the nut jobs who live next door to her grandmother, along with her gardener’s son, Clara can’t see beyond the end of her nose. But if Clara doesn’t start thinking for herself and open her eyes to the escalating abuse from her so-called friends, then eighth grade at her fancy-pants private school is going to be one desolate year.”
The slide reads “Comps.” A striped beach towel has the book BUSTED by Gemeinhart and the THREE RANCHEROS series by DiCamillo placed on it. “Laugh-out-loud” dialogue similar to BUSTED, “authentic MG internal conflicts” similar to DiCamillo’s series, and “small details make characters feel human” similar to both comps.
Text is overlaid over swimming pool water. It is titled “Chapter 1 Snippet.” It reads: “The spinner rack where the shoelaces dangled squeaked as Clara turned it. She kept her head down but lifted her eyes to see if anyone was watching her. Binder’s Drugstore was small but had a little bit of everything. Old people said that when you mentioned Binder’s to them—that it had a little bit of everything. Clara didn’t know about that, but she knew they had the shoelaces she wanted. The rack was shoved into the back corner of the store, crowded on either side by junk nobody wanted to buy. Her elbow bumped against a box holding fuzzy rabbit socks and plastic eggs, marked down on clearance. Clara nudged the box to give herself more room. She forced the wobbly metal rack to turn. She was searching for the sparkly blue laces Macy had worn to school on Friday. Even though there was only one week left of seventh grade, Macy was still wearing new things to school. The metal squeaked as she turned the rack. She spied the ones she was looking for and slid the package off the hook. Clara glanced around again. She ran her thumb up and down the small, glossy plastic package in her hand. It fit snugly in her palm. She went back to slowly spinning the rack, pretending to look at all the different laces, but all she could think about were the blue ones tucked in her hand. The door made its bing-bong sound as Clara left the store. In her pocket were the blue shoelaces.
An #agentguide to THE SAVAGES HAVE ENTERED THE POOL
Contemporary Realistic #MG | 44K Words | querying agents
📍Smart Humor
📍Authentic MG Internal Conflict
📍Social Media FOMO Garbage
📍Finding Your People
#amquerying #agentsguide #middlegrade #booksky #mglit #kidlit
🎶🎶🎶Great to have Mista Cookie Jar in the store this morning for a kids concert!
#books #kidsmusic #kidsrock #kidsconcert #bookstore #indiebookstore #KidsBooks #KidLit #independentbookstore #LAbookstore #picturebooks #picturebook #childrensbooks #kidsbookstore #Newpicturebooks #booklovers
Happy Belated KidLitArt Postcard Day!
#kidlitartpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday #debutpicturebook #kidlit
An illustration by Sahar Abdallah from A Little Halwa and a Big Family. An Afghan woman cooking. She is wearing a white head scarf with gold leaves, and a green tunic, and has a rye smile on her face. She is standing behind a stove holding a frying pan and a wooden spoon
A loving family doesn't mind a bit of mischief! Mama's figured out that the kids have played a little trick on her and Papa. Soon they'll all be enjoying a delicious treat together in A LITTLE HALWA AND A BIG FAMILY.
www.runningthegoat.com
#KidLit
#WIP on this character design of June and Bloo, new design on the left, old one on the right #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
A Robot. A Penguin. And a Multiversal Threat That Only Friendship Can Stop. #comics #graphicnovel #kidlit
THE WICKED WRENCH IN THE WEST! #Oz #WizardOfOz
Read this Viking Bunnies story right now at https://www.vikingbunnies.com ! New site, games, and stories coming in July 2026!
#Reading #Books #Cute #KidLit #Rabbits #Vikings #BedtimeStories #SelfPublishing #AuthorsOfBluesky #NoAI
Need a zombie story for kids?
Little Horrors is a monstrously sweet tale of kindness, chaos, and finding your people—fangs and all. An introduction to undead etiquette for your little horrors!
Out now!
#zombie #vampire #kidlit #halloween
https://www.ziggyzoubooks.co.uk/home/littlehorrors
🧐 Wait, Sara. You live in Illinois and belong to SCBWI-IL. How do you get to go to Arizona events? Easy. You check the box on your SCBWI membership page. I also belong to SCBWI-Japan. You can attend events all over the world.
#scbwi #kidlit #writerscommunity #yabooks #authors
Kyuubi and I enjoyed learning how to find international publishing markets this morning. Thanks, co-RA Tanja Bauerle & the awesome SCBWI-AZ team for putting on this thought-provoking webinar. It won't be easy, but at least I know how to start now.
#scbwi #kidlit #writerscommunity #yabooks #authors
12x12 celebrates National Humor Month! 😂
📚 EMBARRASSED FERRET by Lisa Riddiough
📚 WHIRBY by @mollyharris.bsky.social
📚 DON'T SPLASH GRANDPA! by Julie Gonzalez
Here’s to stories that make us laugh! 🤣
Find more humorous picture books here:
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#kidlit #12x12PB
THE TREASURE OF BUTTERSTUFF ISLAND!
The Viking Bunnies are #ChildrensBooks with #Parody parents will love! Read this right now at https://www.vikingbunnies.com #free!
#Reading #Books #Cute #KidLit #Rabbits #Vikings #BedtimeStories #SelfPublishing #AuthorsOfBluesky #NoAI
There's a striking convergence between the trend away from teaching whole books, described by the teachers in the @haveyouheard.bsky.social piece below, and @hunderdown.bsky.social's observations that a downturn in #KidLit publishing is being driven by declining school and library sales. Yikes.
