Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!

@caitdarfler.com

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picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️‍🌈 PBParty2025 Finalist! www.caitdarfler.com Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social

Cover for A Tree Is A Community. Showing a large tree filled with birds and a raccoon, two children swinging from a branch beneath a bright sun.

Cait smiling, with short gray hair and purple glasses, holding the children's book "Enough to Share" outside.

Cover for "The Peddler of Puddles" showing a turtle in a straw hat and red boots pushing a whimsical rain-making cart that pours water from a cloud, with small birds and puddles along the ground.

Cover for "Speck: An Itty‑Bitty Epic" showing a small glowing speck above a dense school of colorful fish on a dark blue background.

Cover for Just Flowers. Showing a brown-skinned child resting on a treehouse balcony surrounded by colorful flowers and fluttering red butterflies.

Pink sticky note with "tell Pamela this doesn't suck" handwritten on it.

Cover for The Honeybee Highway. Showing a white girl running through tall grass, bees buzzing nearby, with scattered around. Also shows a pickup truck on a country road and blossom-covered branches framing the title.

Cover for Swashby and the Sea. Showing a small rowboat on a sandy shore with a grizzled old white man in a knit cap and a smiling black girl with large glasses beside him.

Cover for Walk the Walk. Showing a Black man and boy walking on a sidewalk past a green-and-yellow 'Cleveland Ave' bus.

Cover for Monster Mender. Shows a stylized dragon curling into a large letter M while a small grey haired person touches the dragon's nose.

Cover for Gitty and Kvetch. Shows excited girl and grumpy bird.

Cover for I'm a Great Friend. Shows a cartoon capybara in goggles racing foward surrounded by birds quickly flying out of the way.

Cover for A Day with No Words. Shows a black boy in glasses looking at flowers at a playground.

Cover for A Door Is to Open. Shows a small kid peering out through a wide gaping door

Cover for You can sit with Me. Shows a bunch of kids sitting at a lunch table.

Toy dump truck strapped down to a long empty tractor trailor

Cover for Bob the Vampire Snail. Shows a large gray-ish snail with small white fangs and small red wings.

Cover for Manolo and the Unicorn. Shows small black hair boys with face burried in a good, behind him is a unicorn shape made of leaves and flowers.