Your journey is valid, even if it looks different. Trust your rhythm. Creativity blooms where pressure fades. 💫
#GoAtYourOwnPace #CreativeJourney #KidlitCommunity #CanadianKidlit #KidlitWriters #KidlitIllustrators #MentalHealthMatters #EnergyMedicine #WritersOfBluesky #IllustratorsOfBluesky
So happy to see this review for Heather Beaumont's debut picture book #WhenWeGoHome. #kidlit #CanadianKidlit 📚👍🏻 It's release is May 5th.
Image shows Sadie, the human, and Pearl, the fairy, first meeting at each other at a beach. Illustrated by Lora Elezovic.
Image shows Sadie and Pearl eating ice cream together while sitting at the beach. Illustrated by Lora Elezovic.
Image shows the cover of "Sadie Rowe And The Missing Necklace" by Claris Lam. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AND EBOOK
Wondering what the ART of "Sadie Rowe And The Missing Necklace" looks like? Here are two of the illustrations (and the cover) that you'll see in this book!
"Sadie Rowe And The Missing Necklace" is available in both paperback and ebook: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GK27RB22
#booksky #kidlit #canadiankidlit
Thank you Books on Beechwood for including Sleepytime Tales – Mindful Bedtime Stories for Restful Nights. Thank you for supporting local authors! 😊
#bookstokids #Ottawa #kidlit #CanadianKidLit @FirstBookCanada @BooksOnBeechwood
Thank you DC Canada Education Publishing for including Sleepytime Tales – Mindful Bedtime Stories for Restful Nights.
In the company of so many wonderful children’s books 😊
and 50% royalties will support @FirstBookCanada
#bookstokids #Ottawa #CanadianKidLit @DCEducation
Happy World Book Day
Let's celebrate the joy of reading.
Is there really anything more joyful than reading an engaging bedtime story to grandkids? Well, maybe... when they begin to read storybooks to their siblings and cousins!
#bookstokids #Ottawa #CanadianKidLit
Proud to share that 50% of royalties from Sleepytime Tales hardcover and paperback will support @FirstBookCanada
Helping put books into the hands of kids who need them most.
See FocusSpede.ca for more info
#bookstokids #Readtoyourkids #CanadianKidLit
Thank you Singing Pebble Books for including Sleepytime Tales - Mindful Bedtime Stories for Restful Nights on your local author shelf!
@SingingPebble
Also available as ebook and audiobook.
More at FocusSpede.ca
#bookstokids #Ottawa #CanadianAuthor #kidlit #CanadianKidLit @FirstBookCanada
Book Launch Day!
Sleepytime Tales can be found on Amazon, Kobo, and these Ottawa bookstores:
Singing Pebbles
Books on Beechwood
DC Canada Education Publishing
50% royalties support @FirstBookCanada
See FocusSpede.ca
#bookstokids #CanadianAuthor #kidlit #CanKidLit #CanadianKidLit #Canadian
Exciting! First delivery of Sleepytime Tales from the printer. FocusSpede.ca for details on where it can be purchased. In select local Ottawa bookstores soon.
50% of paperback and hardcover royalties for First Book Canada.
#bookstokids #CanadianAuthor #kidlit #CanKidLit #CanadianKidLit #Canadian
A bundle of twelve bedtime stories.
Proofing the hardcover... Just weeks away.
#bedtimebooks #kidsbedtime #mindful #childrensliterature #kidlitcommunity #canadianauthor #canadianwriter #ottawaparents #readtokids #raisingreaders #CanKidLit #CanadianKidLit #CanadianBooks
an illustration of a brown girl with pigtails dressed in a pink with purple polkadot bathing suit floats on her back in blue water. The title The Last Last is multicoloured, black text identifies the book creators Wendy J. Whittingham, Brianna McCarthy.
The Last Last by @wendyjwhittingham.bsky.social and Brianna McCarthy turns the bittersweet of leaving one home to the sweetness of greeting another. I especially loved how the birds, although different in each location, provide connection. #kidlit #canadiankidlit 📚👍🏻
A photograph of the cover of The Love Song of Mr. Byrd by Philippa Dowding with illustrations by Caroline Clarke, shows a robin and bat together in a tree. To the right is a smaller version of the cover printed on a shortbread cookie.
The Love Song of Mr. Byrd by @phdowding.bsky.social with illustrations by Caroline Clarke is a balm for the soul. A reassuring story of friendship: poignant, lyrical, wise in an empthetic perspective for young readers. I loved this book. Much needed in our current world. #kidlit #canadiankidlit 📚👍🏻
The spines of a stack of picture books, featuring: MY STREET REMEMBERS, CATS AND US, WORDS MATTER, THE LAST LAST, A SINGLE DREADLOCK, and ONE CAN.
These six Groundwood books publish NEXT WEEK! 📚
Learn more about these titles here: houseofanansi.com/collections/... #booksky #kidlit #canadianbooks #canadiankidlit #cankidlit
🎉 Today is publication day for EMERSON THE ELEPHANT SEAL!
I'm so excited to share my boyfriend with you. He is over 500 lbs, so there is plenty of Emerson to go around!
Now available widely across Canadian bookshops!
www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781998...
#kidlit #kidlitart #canadiankidlit
a book cover of a purple background with two girls and a boy in different coloured clothing - the title Today I Am is written in yellow, subtitle: 10 stories of Belonging. Edited by Jael Richardson, author of Gutter Child.
A #Canadiankidlit collection #TodayIAm, 10 stories of belonging by @chadgalucas.bsky.social, @martychan.bsky.social, @lisellesambury.bsky.social, Michael Hutchinson, Rosena Fung, @dannyramadan.com, @jaelrichardson.bsky.social , @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social, Angela Misri & Brandon Wint #kidlit 📚👍🏻
This is a very personal essay on my journey through childhood trauma & #mentalillness to a place of peace and faith. I talk about Darwin the donkey & my struggles with trusting God.
🐴 #DonkeyWisdom 🕊️ #HealingThroughStory ☮️ #InnerPeace #KidLit 🇨🇦 #CanadianKidLit
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Going at my own pace these days. 💜
Not rushing the process--that doesn't work for me, anyway. Lol!
Creating, healing, writing—on my timeline.
We’re all on our own path. That’s the point! 💫
#GoAtYourOwnPace #CreativeProcess #Kidlit #CanadianKidlit #WritersOfBluesky #IllustratorsOfBluesky
#canscaip #WFCC2025 #kidlit
#picturebooks #middlegrade #canadiankidlit #writingcontest Submitted two already. Putting a neat bow on my third entry. The last time I entered was 2022. I received encouraging feedback from my 2021 works, one of which is now a WIP GN. W8 for feedback to edit in Nov.
To celebrate my new book, THE MOST MAGNIFICENT TEAM, I made friendship bracelets for a soon to be announced giveaway! Stay tuned… #kidlit #authorillustrator #canadiankidlit
Some highlights from Canadian Children's Book Week with the author of The Mango Monster, Derek Mascarenhas! So fun to finally meet Derek and meet some great people. #canadianchildrensbookweek #kidlit #canadiankidlit #kidlitartist
Amazing author copy haul today! I’m gonna have to go get a new bookshelf (or more friends with wee children.) #newbooks #author #illustrator #kidlit #canadiankidlit @kidscanpress.bsky.social
Boosting for #Canadiankidlit
Love this annual holiday catch-up with my Toronto kid lit peeps—these people have the biggest hearts. Big thanks to @claudiaosmond.bsky.social for hosting, and to @debbieohi.com for the photo! 💕. #torontokidlit #canadiankidlit #writingcommunity
Hey friends. If anyone is in North Vancouver next month, do come visit me and my buddy Grant! We are signing books at 32 Books & Gallery and we'd love to see you there!
Dec 7, 1:00 - 3:00pm! Bring me snacks!
#kidlit #kidlitart #canadiankidlit #northvancouver #vancouver
Tablet showing thumbnails for a picture book
So excited seeing this project come together! #kidlitart #canadiankidlit #picturebookart
Cover of picture book Lily and the Paper Man written by Rebecca Upjohn, illustrated by Renné Benoit shows a young dark haired girl in a pink hat & mittens, a blue striped scarf & red jacket holding tight to a grownup's arm as she looks fearfully over her shoulder at a man selling papers, wearing a coat with hiles, no hat or gloves. It is snowing. Pigeons, people and a cityscape are visible in the background.
As days shorten & grow colder I'm reminded of how fortunate I am to have a safe home. I don't often shout out my own books but #teachers #librarians & #parents have told me #LilyAndThePaperMan is a good conversation starter about about those experiencing #homelessness. #kidlit #canadiankidlit #pb
I haven’t written anything recently, thanks mostly to the persistent rejections of publishers, but this is my first YA novel released in 2013. I have 2 others since.
I hope this qualifies me for this list. #Canadiankidlit #yalit #canadianlit
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@phdowding.bsky.social So lovely to see you here, Philippa! #CanadianKidLit #Kidlit
@friedawishinsky.bsky.social , Welcome, Frieda!
#Kidlit #CanadianKidlit
