Charlesbridge Publishing @charlesbridge.bsky.social We make high-quality children's books that inspire lifelong reading & learning. Discover new voices, visions, & directions in children's books with us
P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields) @pjpurtee.bsky.social SCBWI
PBs
Poet: The Toy, Little Thoughts Press
Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
Honors: Madness! Poetry (Elite 8), #50PreciousWords, Valentiny, Halloweensie, Holiday, Spring Fling
School volunteer
Hx: pediatrics
http://pjpurtee.com
Kate Arnold @illustratebykate.bsky.social Illustrator | Cat Enthusiast | SCBWI Member
Represented by Emelie Burl at Susan Schulman Literary Agency
www.katearnold.net
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A quiet storyworld for children and grown-ups. Gentle woodland tales, old railway memories and his journals.
( Brackenlowe Halt is a fictional storyworld rooted in the railway and social history of Hull and East Yorkshire)
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Karyn Curtis @karyncurtiswrites.bsky.social Middle Grade, Picture Book writer, former editor, horse girl, #MGWaves
The CAT Agency @thecatagency.bsky.social Boutique art & literary agency, representing creators from all over the world. 
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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Yangsook Choi @yangsookchoi.bsky.social Children's Book Author & Artist
THE NAME JAR, A LETTER TO MY BEST FRIEND, PEACH HEAVEN, SLIPPERY SPICY TINGLY & more
Repp'd by Miranda Paul @mirandapaul.bsky.social
Lydia Gil @lydiagil.bsky.social 🇵🇷🇨🇺writer, profe
#scbwi #kidlit #culturaltravel
Lydiagil.com
Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social Children's books author-illustrator
🌶️Spicy Spicy Hot! (LBYR)
👻Wolfgang in the Meadow (Clarion)
🐭Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days (Clarion)
✏️Sister Scribbles (Viking)
Represented by Christy Ewers @thecatagency.bsky.social
www.lennywen.com/links
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
https://a.co/d/4lRdJee
Katja Rammer @katjarammer.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Neurospicy Jacky-of-all-trades.
Shortlisted w/ Senex Born (Iaminprint 2025), Raven Short Story Contest longlistee. Stories: Hyphenpunk, Black Cat Weekly, Gavagai & more
Reg. Adv. SCBWI 🇩🇪 + 🇦🇹. (she/her/hers)
https://linktr.ee/katjarammer
Susan Metallo @metallowrites.bsky.social YA Author, librarian, neurodivergent nerd girl.
HEARTS ON THE TABLE - Coming Sept 22, 2026 from Candlewick
REASONS TO HATE ME - a PW "Best YA Books of 2025"! susanmetallo.com/books
♾️ 🏳️🌈 she/her/hers
susanmetallo.com/links
Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com Viet-Canadian writer, multidisciplinary artist, general goblin on Treaty 1 territory. Queer, neurodivergent, she/they. SCBWI. https://tiffbartel.com
Rep: Katie Blagden @ The Ampersand Agency
Breanna Carzoo @breannacarzoo.bsky.social 🖍Author-illustrator 🚒 LOU🚦GREENLIGHT 🏰🌊THE SQUISH Rep:Jen Rofé-ABLA
www.breannacarzoo.com
Amanda Lenz @lenzillustration.bsky.social Illustration + Design for children’s, portraiture, nature and beyond.
❉ lenzillustration.com ❉
let’s chat: amanda@lenzillustration.com
Alina Manolache @alpacasbookshelf.bsky.social I'm Alina and I like alpacas🦙
romanian children's book illustrator
available for new projects
🚫 No AI
Portfolio: alpacasbookshelf.com
maei @maeiart.bsky.social fine artist | graphic novel writer and illustrator | like to find beauty in the uncanny | en/lv/ru | no AI, duh
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ORDER WORK HERE
https://kidsofhecate.com/
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STREAMS
https://www.twitch.tv/maei_art
Leah Schanke | Award-winning Author of FREEDOM AT DAWN @leahschanke.bsky.social Award-winning multicultural children’s book author | LeahSchanke.com | 2025 Debut #picturebook illustrated by @Obohdraws.bksy.social. Member of Authors Guild, PAL member of #SCBWI, and LongIslandAuthorsGroup.org. (She/her)
Lee Wind @leewind.bsky.social Author, Blogger, Make the World a Better Placer (he/him). Out to empower Queer Youth and their allies. Out Now: A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENEMY -- Book 2 in my Gay teen action-adventure romance series where Queer Teens Save the World!
Andrew Hacket @andrewchacket.bsky.social Picture book author & elementary educator
Up next:
IN THIS CLASSROOM (Spring 2026)
SQUIRREL & TURTLE: THIS BOOK HAS BIG WORDS (Fall 2027)
https://t.co/YSBfW8Jq3
YoungJu Kim @illuhaus.bsky.social Kidlit Author-Illustrator based in Vienna, VA. #SCBWI, #12x12PB, #PBRisingStars
https://kimyoungju.com/
https://www.instagram.com/youngjukim_illuhaus/
#kidlitart #kidlt #kidlitillustrator #illustration #artist #midatlant
Eric Rosswood (He/Him) @ericrosswood.bsky.social Author of the Stonewall Honor picture book, STRONG, featuring the world's first openly gay strongman competitor. Website: linktr.ee/EricRosswood
Katy Manck, MLS SLMSC @booksyalove.bsky.social Reader, gardener, indep book reviewer- https://BooksYALove.com. All kids need school libraries & librarians! IASL Past-President.
Irina Chasov @irina-chasov.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator | Character Designer
https://www.behance.net/irinachasov
irinachasov.art
Druscilla Santiago @adventurefunclub.bsky.social An Illustrator! In Honolulu! Probably drinking coffee.
Rep'd by @ksonnack.bsky.social
www.adventurefun.club
📗: Anything? Anything! (Summer 2027)
Arpita Choudhury @fernspikeart.bsky.social She/ Her
Lapsed marine biologist turned illustrator.
Looking for representation.
SCBWI Member Western PA.
Interested in PB, CB, ER, MG, BC, NF, puzzles, and kids games.
https://www.fernspikeart.com/moreinfo
Adriana Hernández Bergstrom @adriprints.bsky.social Author + Illustrator | 🇨🇺 | she/her | Rep: Wernick&Pratt | Abuelita & I Make Flan 🍮 / TUMBLE 🏜️ / Countdown for Nochebuena 🎄
Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social Husband to 💪🏼 Dr., Dad to 7, professional educator, business creator, public school board member, author (Operation Tree Roper) I've been called a bad Catholic. It could be true. (He, him) Member SCBWI
Reading > banning Loving > deporting
Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
Melanie Cordova @melaniecordova.bsky.social Freelance children’s book editor. Literary translator. Writer. Mama.
✨Rep’d by Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Lit Agency
www.melaniecordova.com
Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com Author/Artist * Asian Pacific American Librarians Association PB winner * #Kidlit * 🇭🇰🇨🇦🇺🇸 * she/her * SO: @indianaclimate * sign up for my newsletter at teresarobeson.com to get free art+story * 🚫 DMs or MAGA
Repped by: @casahasegawa.bsky.social
Tina Hoggatt @thoggatt.bsky.social Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie.
Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
Anna Lena Feunekes @annalenavaniersel.bsky.social Author & illustrator of nonfiction for kids 📚
Tasty Tales + Big Book of Birthdays (DK)
hey@annalena.nl | illustrated newsletter 👇🏻
www.annalena.nl/links
Brianne Drouhard @briannedrouhard.bsky.social https://www.briannedrouhard.com/links
Comic http://harpygee.com
Character design, storyboarding, directing for animation. Co-EP on Starfire! 💫
Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social I really like drawing silly animals and flowers!
Digital artist from Sweden.
Check out my art!! both #art and #sketchbook stuff! :)
Shop and other links: https://shop.byjessicaelena.com/pages/links
Natalia Zaitseva @nataliadraws.bsky.social She/Her / Freelance Illustrator from Karlsruhe, Germany / Introverted History Enthusiast & Toddler Mom / I draw architecture & cute characters 🌞 / 💬🇩🇪🇬🇧 / nataliazaitseva.carrd.co
Julia Shea @jsheaart.bsky.social 🌞 designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs
https://linktr.ee/jshea_art
Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Bestselling author and illustrator. Creator of the Deephaven Mystery series, the ESTRANGED duology, THE PALE QUEEN, THE LEGEND OF BRIGHTBLADE, and more.
Linktr.ee/ethanmaldridge
Kody @kodyisover.com Queer cartoonist. Punk's not dead, we're just trans now. he/they 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Creates the Eisner nominated gay bummer of a webcomic #KeepingTime @ keepingtimecomic.com (Updates Tuesdays)
patreon.com/kodyisover
kodyokamoto.com
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com Agent at kt literary. Legal Counsel for ANSI. Freelance Attorney with Matter Services LLC. Always a nerd. She/her.
www.rebeccamatte.com, www.kt-literary.com
Instagram: @rlmatte_litagent
Jess Hernandez (she/her) @jessjhernandez.bsky.social Writer of #kidlit. Former teacher and librarian. Current kid wrangler. Mutant diabetic and perpetually tired nd. Author of 1st Day of Unicorn School (Capstone) and I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS (Sleeping Bear, 2025) www.jesshernandezwrites.com
Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House).
LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press).
#KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.”
Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social
Www.Authorkellymangan.com
#NoAIArt
Avani Dwivedi @avanidwivedi.bsky.social 🎨 picture book artist
📍Mumbai / NYC
🌷Repped by Painted Words
Traci Huahn 📚 @tracihuahn.bsky.social Kidlit Author rep’d by Lara Perkins @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
✨MAMIE TAPE FIGHTS TO GO TO SCHOOL (Crown/PRH ‘24)✨
#PB #NF #kidlit #12x12 | she/her
https://www.tracihuahn.com
Judith Henderson @judithhenderson.bsky.social ✍️ author/illustrator, Composer🎹TV Producer. Wrote theme song for PBS show, Arthur.🏆
Julie Hauswirth @juliehauswirth.bsky.social I write PBs! | IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM (Holiday House ‘26) | Yeehoo Press Star Award '23 | SCBWI Most Promising Fiction MS 24' | Rep’d by CoCo Freeman
https://www.juliehauswirth.com
Ann Diament Koffsky @artbyann.bsky.social Author and/ or Illustrator of 40+ books including PING PONG SHABBAT (2024, Little Bee). 12x12. CBIGNYC. SCBWI.
Robin Brett Wechsler @robinbwechsler.bsky.social Children's author, freelance editor/writer. Avid reader, walker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder, ice cream eater, ‘80s music listener. Cat lady.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
Karen Krossing @karenkrossing.com #KidLit Author, Editor, Mentor.
Latest: ONE COSMIC ROCK. THE CLOUD THAT STUCK.
Upcoming: FOREVER FRIES.
Agency: @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social
VCFA Alum. Faculty at Whale Rock Workshops.
Settler heritage. She/her. Bi/pan. 🏳️🌈
https://karenkrossing.com
Bluesky Feed Creator @blueskyfeedcreator.com Create your own Bluesky Feeds using our third party app. Quickly design and customize your Bluesky feeds, no coding knowledge required.
https://blueskyfeedcreator.com/
Status: @status.blueskyfeedcreator.com
🌏 Proudly Aotearoa New Zealand owned
Pragmatic Mom @pragmaticmom.bsky.social Hi! I'm Mia Wenjen. I blog at PragmaticMom.com, run nonprofit ReadYourWorld.org, and write children's books (MiaWenjen.com).
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MiaWenjen
Dow Phumiruk @dowphumiruk.bsky.social Mom, wife, clinically retired peds, now academic MD, author/illustrator, 🇹🇭Thai American, SCBWI Narr Art Award winner, E/W Lit Agency, posts #kidlitart & book marketing, on hiatus from new book projects. Ignores random DMs. She/her/hers, opinions my own.
Kim Rogers @kimrogerswriter.bsky.social Award-winning children’s author, 3rd child is a Chihuahua, takes frequent social media breaks
kimrogerswriter.com
jen rofé @jenrofe.bsky.social Senior Agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
www.jenrofe.com
www.andreabrownlit.com
Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social Independent, POC-owned children's book publisher specializing in diversity since 1991. © 2026 Lee & Low Books.
Polina Gortman 🎨 | Illustrator @polinagortman.bsky.social Picture book maker • Reader & star gazer
✨ SEEKING REPRESENTATION ✨
📚SPRING IS FOR STRAWBERRIES ’23
📚WIDE OPEN SPACES ‘26
📍PNW🌲
www.gortmanillustration.com
John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
Jason Piperberg Illustration (He/Him) 🍉 @jasonpiperberg.bsky.social Comic Artist/Illustrator/Digital Brush Maker. Grantie™ Award winner. Creator: Starset Delivery. Co-Creator: Binary Sea & My Neighbor Necromancer.
Artist of Raising Dion, & other comics.
Portfolio,digital brushes, etc.:
https://linktr.ee/JasonPiperberg
Yoss Sánchez @yosssanchez.bsky.social Children's Book Illustrator | Costa Rica
Represented by Astound Agency
www.yosssanchez.com 
Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com Illustration, RT 3D, designer and game developer.
Ancient History, Sci-Fi and Kubrick's 2001.
I have a yellow mechanical pencil.
All rights reserved.
🔻Spain
https://linktr.ee/Ailantd
Kyle T Webster | Artist & Author @kyletwebster.bsky.social Artist, educator, author, digital brush wizard (proudly working at Procreate). Founder (and seller) of KyleBrush. Creator of Lines of Zen, the first meditative drawing app. http://kyleTwebster.com
Fiona Creates @fionacreates.bsky.social Comics Artist and Illustrator. She/her. (More) Knights and floof incoming.
Author and artist of LADIES OF THE KNIGHT (onipress 2026). Based in Yorkshire UK
http://fionacreates.net
http://ladiesoftheknightcomic.com
marchbank.f@gmail.com
Jonathan Hill @oneofthejohns.bsky.social (He/Him) Award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. Serve on the board of directors for Literary Arts.
www.oneofthejohns.com
Alexandra Vivelo, Kidlit Author @alexandravivelo.bsky.social Writer, hiker, animal lover. "Doctor of Decay," a.k.a. Ph.D. in fungal biology. BEAT THE HEAT coming 2027 from Orca Books! Repped by Lauren Bieker of FinePrint Literary.
tcandyart @tcandyart.bsky.social Children's Book Writer and Illustrator repped by Andrea Morrison of Writers House. SCBWI Carolinas. Please check out my work at triciacandemeres.com and https://www.writershouseart.com/tricia-candemeres/. #12x12pb
Neha Rawat @neharawatart.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator | India | Rep’d by Lori Steel at SteelWorks Literary
MrsPowellsBooks @mrspowellsbooks.bsky.social K-2nd grade librarian & Author of THE LIBRARY KITTY book duo and HEROES NEED HELP (a chemo themed picture book written with my college kid).
AcademicPlayBooks.com
Meghan Wilson Duff 🦑 @mwduff.bsky.social Picture book author, psych professor, excels at typos, in a tide pool if possible, 🦑 IDIC 🖖 they/them www.meghanwilsonduff.com
They're concentration camps & it's genocide. No one should be okay w/ it.
AI "illustrations" = blocked
Ewelina Wolnowska @ewelinawolnowska.bsky.social Illustrator based in Germany in love with picture books and children’s illustration. Rep’d by Sophie Sheumaker, BookEnds Literary
#KidlitArt
www.ewelinawolnowska.com
https://bio.link/ewelinawolnowska
Todd R. Ackerman @artbytra.bsky.social illustrating experiences for little readers. My Christmas nativity themed books are available at picturedaypress.com #kidlitart
artbytra.com 🧀GoPackGo🧀
lily hoang-zhu 🍎 @ Singapore PTS & ANYC @liliuhms.com illustrator & designer! ✏️ i run an art shop for my original goods & happy knick knacks! i also dabble in picture books! / denver, co
linktr.ee/liliuhms
Joanna Cacao 🎄 @jocabako.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator for KidLit
www.joannacacao.com
The Secret of the Ravens (2023)
The Tryout (2022), The Squad (2024)
✨ she/her ✨ || Repped by Tara Gilbert
Carmine Pucci @carminepucci.bsky.social 🎥 Art Director/Visual Development Artist
Lead Background Painter @surfinggiant
Disney Lorcana Illustrator @ravensburgerglobal
🏳️🌈 Pan
www.artstation.com/carminepucci1
Andrea L. Mack @andreamack.bsky.social PB & MG writer. Kidlit book blogger (www.andrea-mack.blogspot.com). Grade 1 teacher. #12x12PB member. Mixed media collage artist. My writing projects often combine my love of baking, birds and board games with my passion for caring for our Earth. She/her.
Kayla Harren @kaylaharren.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator
Rep: Marietta Zacker galltzacker.com
Books: A BOY LIKE YOU, THURSDAY, CALVIN
Violeta Serratosa ✏️VIU @viu.bsky.social Picture book illustrator, comic zine maker, music enthusiast and mid century art lover 🪐🌞🚀
https://www.vforviu.com/links
José A Nieto @jas094.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator · Seeking Representation
www.joseanieto.com
Nicola Smith @nicolasmithdraws.bsky.social 🇿🇦South African Artist & children’s book illustrator ✏️
🎨 SCBWI Member
https://www.scbwi.org/members/nicola-smith
Julia Morris @juliamorris.bsky.social Sr Designer at Hallmark by day, freelance illustrator by night. 🎨 juliammorris.com/ • instagram.com/julia.m.morris
Emma Latham Illustration @emmalatham.com Author illustrator of kid's books
Rep'd by Lorna Hemingway @ The Darley Anderson Agency
National Geographic, Highlights Magellan, Franklin Watts, Collins Big Cat, Brilliant Monsters Books @scbwi
http://www.emmalatham.com
kidlitchat @kidlitchat.bsky.social #kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news.
Banner art by Brian Kirby: @boringstorybook.com
jenny fang @jennyfangart.bsky.social Storyteller. Artist. Creator. Author-illustrator. Capoerista.
📚 linktr.ee/jennyfang
Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Aliana @alianawong.bsky.social ･ﾟ✧ILLUSTRATOR ･ﾟ✧ Kidlit, Picture Books, MG, YA, Fantasy ･ﾟ✧
🌱Rep’d by Tasneem Motala @seraphecda
🌠Makes Cute Stationery // Sometimes recs Books
💌ALiXiNWONG@GMAIL.COM
🌱 https://www.alianawong.com/
See Feeds for Art feed✨️
Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: @agenthawk.bsky.social
My PB debut: BINNA’S DALGONA (2025)
tinyurl.com/3m7bpcd3
instagram.com/creativesojung
sojungkimmccarthy.art
sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com
Melissa Murray @melissamurray.bsky.social Author + Illustrator + Artist
SCBWI | CBIG | 12x12
PBParty 2024 Illustration Showcase HM
https://melissamurray.net
#kidlitart #kidlit
Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social Illustration, zines, fortunes, playing with metal sometimes
Seattle
Pamwishbow.com
Valéry Goulet - Illustration & Design @valerydesignwrks.bsky.social French Canadian Designer, Illustrator & Design Instructor located in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
https://www.valerydesignwrks.ca/links