Amy Chini

@amychini.bsky.social

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#Kidlit writer and sometimes illustrator, making things since 1980. Send me all the vegan things. #FallWritingFrenzy 2024 Winner #KidLitVibes 2023 Winner #SprinFlingKidLit 2023 (HM) 12th annual #Halloweensie (HM) www.amychini.com

A blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: CALL. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661. Because the government has no business dictating what books our kids read. Authors Against Book Bans – Freedom to Read, Freedom to Write
Book cover: A gigantic black tombstone tips precariously forward while the figure of a woman, tiny in scale, presses a heart against it, trying to keep it from falling. On the tombstone is the book’s title: “The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards.” Author: Jessica Waite.
A forlorn pink rat sits in the corner on a yellow chair. A pointy blue cap sits atop his head.
3 rats in black robes and maroon and gold scarves press their hands over their earmuffs. A fourth rat is passed out between them on the ground. An older female rat in blue robes and a hat lifts a screaming mandrake from a pot.
A row of pastel cotton candy. The fourth bunch over is actually a peach colored fluffy ray, a wisp of cotton candy in hand and reaching over to grab a bit more. Behind is a sign “Fresh Cotton Candy.”
A lavender rad lazes dreamily on the top shelf of a bookshelf, arm and leg dangling. He listens to a woman in the next room reading a story to a child. The words “Once upon a time…” drift.
A Ratress emerges from an opening in the forest, bow across her back, hands on walking stick.
A small purple rat stairs, wide-eyed from beneath an overturned ice cream dish while a blue rat strains to lift the dish and free him. Behind them a man prepares ice cream at a counter. 
A dark stage. A beam of light cuts behind 3 rats- two lady rats in flapper attire flank a gentleman rat in a suit. The ladies each hold a rat trap behind their backs. Behind them in large red letters are the words Dazzle Rat.
A lavender rat howls at a cheddar cheese moon.
A jaunty oat with a wide smile doing “disco arms.”