Kottie Christie-Blick @kottiecb.bsky.social Children's Book Author
Climate Change Education Consultant
University Instructor
Former Teacher
Helping children understand the world around them.
https://www.kottiecb.com
https://kidsagainstclimatechange.com
#kidsagainstclimatechange #toomuchquiet
Stephanie Maksymiw @storiesbystephm.bsky.social PB author | #SCBWI | #amquerying
➖2026 #PBRisingStars Runner-up
➖2025 #KidlitChuckleChallenge Winner, #50PreciousWords HM
➖2024 #PitchMe Finalist, #kidschoicekidlitwritingcontest Winner, #50PreciousWords HM
https://stephaniemstories.wixsite.com/home
Julie Bell @juliembell.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Teacher Ed and English Ed at UNO. Greyhounds = the best dogs. Opinions are my own. she/her/hers
Village Books and Paper Dreams @villagebookswa.bsky.social Two locations in Bellingham and Lynden with floors and floors of books and gifts.
Jenny Powers @powersofwords.bsky.social Owner and Author at Powers of Words, LLC✨Middle-grade writer✨KidLit book coach✨Co-author of “On the Origin of Being”✨Mom, athlete, nature lover✨Recovering academic
BLM. There is no Planet B. Protect Trans Kids
Kathryn 📚 @kathrynreads4fun.bsky.social Teacher, Reader, member of The Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, PhD, Brooklyn girl at heart so…occasionally snarky.
Dee @dee4ever.bsky.social Mother of 7, grandmother of 17, veteran educator of 40 years.
https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/dietra-blanding-august-2025-monckscorner/1BCVTXA0K5PGM
Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social The original online writing conference JUST for Picture Book Creators, established in 2015. Join us ONLINE on Oct. 3 2026 with Superstar Speakers Derrick Barnes, Deborah Underwood, and Brian Lies! picturebooksummit.com
LBYR School & Library @lbschool.bsky.social 📚 A place for educators & librarians to get the latest news and book information from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 📚
Visit https://www.littlebrownlibrary.com/
https://linktr.ee/lbyrschool
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
Daniele Arndt @danielearndt1.bsky.social PB author rep'd by Jen Newens, Debut PIG AND SKUNK with Disney Hyperion ‘27 (sequel’28). Friend of Jesus.
Melinda Beatty @melindabeatty.com Writer, bookseller and crafter. Author of the Heartseeker duology, (Putnum) TELL THE TRUTH, PANGOLIN,(Anne Schwartz Books) THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE DAY, (Dial) THE WITCH'S TABLE, (Little Bee) WHAT IS A PIRATE? (Little Bee, Fall 2026)- S West Coast Librarian @sylvianurse.bsky.social Interested in eBooks, film, humanities, linked data, machine learning, metadata, instruction, open access, oer and open innovation.
Toddling The Stacks @toddlingthestacks.com You should be reading #kidlit, and we'll help you see why.
A children's literature podcast by award-winning educator and Princeton-educated literature PhD @seangill.net
New episodes drop on Mondays!
http://www.ToddlingTheStacks.com
@FurrBooksFan.bsky.social @furrbooksfangirl.bsky.social "The world of the jungle is in fact both itself and our world as well"
— John Rowe Townsend
Celebrating good things -- from anthropomorphic animal books to great film, TV -- but most of all books. #amquerying X: @JuneSPenacook
Bonnie G. Lindauer @gerelyn.bsky.social Picture book author, amateur cellist and pianist, nature lover and volunteer at Muttville, a senior dog rescue organization.
#picturebook, #chapterbook, #amquerying, #kidlit, #childrensbooks
Patchree Jones is officially published 🎉 @patchreejones.bsky.social Thai-American Author of MG fantasy #SKYLIGHT & #HIMMAPAN CB w/ SORRA Books |#MGMiracles |#LitKidsMag Mentor | #MixedUpFiles Writer |#WriteHive24 |#AAPI| #2024debut | patchreejones.com
@amynelder.bsky.social @amynelder.bsky.social Author/Painter #kidlit #MGLit #Thriller #MGtyDucks #kidlitchat
Adam Stemple @adamstemple.bsky.social Writer, musician, asshole. Will die on any hill.
www.adamstemple.com
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
@coloradoauthors.bsky.social @coloradoauthors.bsky.social 
Rebecca G. Aguilar @rebeccagaguilar.com Writer | Reader | M.Ed. | Texas Master Naturalist | https://rebeccagaguilar.com/
Margaret Nevinski @margaretnevinski.bsky.social #kidlit writer, island dweller, walker, nature enthusiast. VCFA WCYA.
Kamon Children's Book Author @kamonauthor.bsky.social Born Abenaki in 🍁 #mindfulness #wisdom 💚 of #native #legends 💚 #livres #History #DEI #KamonChildrenBooks speaks French, Eng.,Thai, Algonquin, Chinese #GluskabeByKamon #kidlit #BlueskyBooks 🚫DM🚫XXX🚫
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Kamon/e/B00B09K7XA
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | Best of Australian Poems 2024 | Guest poetry editor Cordite 112: TREAT (2024) | Latest book Autobiochemistry | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com
#KidlitZombieWeek @kidlitzombieweek.bsky.social Hosts of #KidlitZombieWeek 2026, @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @rebecca-ensign.bsky.social @monicafreewoman.bsky.social @janmilusich.bsky.social @drenderturmaud.bsky.social @kcstrocchia.bsky.social
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kidlit-zombie-week/
Michelle Schaub @schaubwrites.bsky.social Author, poet, teacher. A PLACE FOR RAIN (Norton Young Readers), LEAFY LANDMARKS (Sleeping Bear Press); poetry ideas for educators: http://poetryboost.com; repped by @ljamstutz.bsky.social @stormliterary.bsky.social www.michelleschaub.com
Matt Forrest Esenwine @mattforrestvw.bsky.social #Neurodivergent kidlit author, poetry writer, voice actor, Moxie drinker, dad, son, hubby, human. http://mattforrest.com https://www.instagram.com/mattforrestvw/
Canette Books @canettebooks.bsky.social Children's books for parents who get it 📚
"You're Only Two Once" — celebrating toddler magic
👇 Get the book
amazon.com/dp/1736839500
biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social 100% organic, biologically sourced woman
Deborah Halverson @deborahhalverson.bsky.social Award-winning author, editor, founder of DearEditor.com. Author of WRITING YOUNG ADULT FICTION FOR DUMMIES and WRITING NEW ADULT FICTION
National Council of Teachers of English @ncte.org NCTE is the professional organization for literacy educators spanning preK through college. ncte.org
Living Oceans Foundation @livingoceans.bsky.social Safeguarding the health of our living oceans 🌊 by protecting coral reefs 🪸, restoring mangrove forests 🌳, and promoting ocean literacy 📚 around the world. #ScienceWithoutBorders 🌍
RodneyRamjet @rodneyrajina.bsky.social Retired, and wondering if I could do it all over again, what would I do differently? Probably lots.
One more thing. I’m going to be connecting with everyone here. I will find something to laugh about anything that gets posted here.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Claudia Mills @claudiamills123.bsky.social Author of over 60 books for young readers, loves the community of writers and readers, always searching for creative joy wherever it can be found.
James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).
Stephanie Owens @stephanieowens.bsky.social 🇨🇦Canadian kidlit author/Photographer/Healthcare professional
Represented by Sharon Belcastro
https://stephaniemcowens.wordpress.com/
libbb @violabetonicifolia.bsky.social On Turrbal land.
I know a bit about dog and cat behaviour and welfare. I like learning about libraries, knitting and sewing, ecosystems, butterflies and moths, active transport too.
My blood is red out of fury - Lisa O’Neill
Palestine must be free.
Em4democracy @emmy4democracy.bsky.social M.Ed, painter/sculptor, foodie and progressive Jew.
Librarybarb @librarybarb.bsky.social The full gamut of humanity can be in found stories. If you think someone is less than you, you haven’t heard their story. Posting any instances of people standing up for others.
Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social Friend. Educator. Librarian. Employed. Artist. Patron. Advocate. Ally. Accomplice. Coconspirator. Activist. Listener. Caregiver. Human. And MUCH more. Need my creds? Ask! Personal account--thoughts are my own. she/they
Jess @heylibrarylady.bsky.social Geeky school librarian. I read books and know things.
https://linktr.ee/Heylibrarylady?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
San Francisco Public Library @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social San Francisco Public Library connects our diverse communities to learning, opportunities and each other.
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Suds 🫧 @thesudsymango.bsky.social Special Education School Counselor. PhD student. Special Needs Mom. Artist. ✌🏼💙🩵$MightyPinkMango
Help me clear my counseling list for my students 😊
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/WA5G2TNOMUQP?ref_=wl_share
Remarkable Young Women Project @megorra.bsky.social Hi! I'm Meg, founder of The Remarkable Young Women Project: remarkableyoungwomen.org || historian, writer, feminist, museum nerd, traveler #womenshistory #herstory
Jennifer W. Bull @violinwriter.bsky.social Author-Illustrator & Pro Violinist. 🎻 Creating hybrid MG worlds where misfits find their voice. Currently developing The Wild String trilogy.
Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social A Pole in Hong Kong. Posts about Museums, Pterosaurs and History of Palaeontology 🦴 Dinosaur Doodles 🦖
El-eye-el-why @el-eye-el-why.bsky.social She/her. Science die-hard. Voracious reader. Bitter Southerner. Academic Mama bear. I love owls and foxes. Full time feminism and humanism. Garden and run in the sun.
*Love where you live - we are our communities.*
“Rebellions are built on hope…”
Suzanne Goldsmith @suzgold.bsky.social Author of WASHASHORE, winner of the Green Earth Book Award, and A CITY YEAR. Writing like a maniac while getting an MFA in writing for kids at Hamline U. Watch this space!
http://www.suzanne-goldsmith.com/
Kaitlyn Wells | Buy Under the Clam Moon🌕 @kaitwells.bsky.social Author of
A FAMILY LOOKS LIKE LOVE🐶 – a Children’s Book Council pick
UNDER THE CLAM MOON🌕
NATGEO ENCYC of AAHC✊🏿
Senior Staff Writer at Wirecutter, covering home office tech
#author #equity #health #kidlit #journalism #SCBWI #pets #productivity #tech
@michita12.bsky.social @michita12.bsky.social 
@1sabrinaowen.bsky.social @1sabrinaowen.bsky.social Unicorn 🦄 per my awesome husband, proud momma of 4 amazing adults (2 biological, 2 bonus), neuroscience, psychedelic and trauma informed psychotherapist, Newfoundland and Maine Coon companion, TOOL fan, loves reading books, everything is sacred 🌲🌊 💐❤️
@inthewritetime.bsky.social @inthewritetime.bsky.social I love screenwriting, films, music, traveling, photography, nature, animals, and kind people
🐝☔️V LHarper📚☕️ @098merbx.bsky.social B.A. Sociology/Social Work@WKU. Retired Regional Complaint Coordinator/Health Care & Supervisor @ KY.OIG Division of Health Care.
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🚫DM's #GenX
🪩N1 Santa Clara 🫶🏻
🐉I had the time of my life w/TS 💞
#MadWoman 🤬
Kim Noreen @kimnoreen.bsky.social Democratic Socialist | Everybody does better when everybody does better
@cjaxon.bsky.social @cjaxon.bsky.social Inventor of artificial inteligence: my ideas *sound * better than they actually are! Music lover, piano student, reader and appreciate the visual arts.
Ain’t here for business..only for fun so no investments, crypto or scams! Thnx 🇨🇦
SarBear @sarascs.bsky.social Scientist-Naturalist-Gardener-
Reader-Dreamer
Judith Henderson @judithhenderson.bsky.social ✍️ author/illustrator, Composer🎹TV Producer. Wrote theme song for PBS show, Arthur.🏆
Sara F. Shacter @sarashacter.bsky.social Children's Book Author/Teacher
Most Recent Book: Georgia Watson and the 99 Percent Campaign
Writing for the world's best audience!
Little, Brown and Company @littlebrown.bsky.social Behind the scenes at one of the nation's oldest publishing houses! We just really love books.
Home to: 📖 Algonquin Books; 🔎 Mulholland Books; 🧠 Little, Brown Spark; and 🍽️ Voracious!
Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Science writer on memory, Indigenous knowledges, archaeology, music, art, neurodiversity, education. PhD LaTrobe Uni. Books include 'The Memory Code', 'Memory Craft', 'Songlines', 'The Knowledge Gene'. Member Order of Aus.
https://www.lynnekelly.com.au
Boni Ashburn @boniashburn.bsky.social Children’s Book Author.
Librarian (Middle/High School & Public).
Mom. Dog mom. Human.
The U.P. of Michigan. boniashburn.com
Rebecca Chambers @metismamamb.bsky.social Columnist & project lead for the @WinnipegFreePress.com media literacy platform at www.winnipegfreepress.com/education, high school teacher, grad student @UManitoba.bsky.social, lifelong learner, Autism mom, love warrior.
Dr. Michelle @lipsticklitterati.bsky.social The People’s Professor | #FREADOM |#FreedomToRead |💗💚 | Using books & #BlackFeminist lit to make a better world | #BlueWave | #KidLit & #NonProfits | Proud #SCBWI member |Happily 💍! | Posts are mine, all mine.
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social Marine biology, ctenophores, bioluminescence, deep-sea, genomics, computing for biologists.
The Radiant Sea. Photo book.
Cello? Views my own.
bit.ly/arms-deep bit.ly/radsea
🇨🇦 🏴Wilma @wfergie.bsky.social Avid reader. Seawall walker. West Coast sailor. Retired Law Librarian. Proud Canadian. Elbows still up. Hoping for an Independent Scotland and the Reunification of Ireland in my lifetime.
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
Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social haiku, poetry, scifaiku, micropoetry,
kidlit in English, German, French, Plattdeutsch.
born: Wesermarsch, based: Berlin-Wedding.
Bob Leckridge @bobleckridge.bsky.social Retired doctor Photographer “L’émerveillement du quotidien” (the wonder of the every day) insatiably curious 
Yeti's Mama 🇨🇦 @yetismama.bsky.social Ocean Lover | Tree Hugger | Yoga Therapist | Student of Fungi & Herbalism | Caribbean-Dreaming | Unabashedly CDN | ... Cats | But, most of all, proud mama of 2 bright boys <into> SCIENCE.
@butterflylady6309.bsky.social @butterflylady6309.bsky.social Decent human. Gen X, Iowa farm girl. Mommy of a child with special needs. Teacher. Music lover. Reader. Writer of poetry. 💙
Pallavi Jesrani @paljes.bsky.social Mommy, #kidlit writer, poet with poems in The Dirigible Balloon, The Little Thoughts Press, Tyger Tyger, The School Magazine, #12x12pb, engineer, STEM, SCBWI, amateur painter.
Kathy Fork @babyfork.bsky.social Former teacher and school librarian 📚
Currently writing for kids 📝
Repped by @juliebookagent.bsky.social
at SteelWorks Literary 📖
Dolly Parton is my patron saint 🦋
Bill Murray is my spirit animal 👻
aka Babyfork 🧀🌈🦄 🌮🦉🌲
Karlin Gray @karlingray.bsky.social Author and Founder of True Story Bookshop — helping parents and educators 🍎 find #truestories to match kids’ interests.
True stories = true gifts.
https://truestorybookshop.com/
💙📚 #BookSky 💡📚 #Nonfiction #KidLit
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
Michigan Maple Man 🍁🇨🇦 🇬🇱🥄🌲🐓⛷️🚵🏼♀️🎻🏕️🔨💋🐝🪵🌻🌈❄️🛶💙📎🐸 @mimapleman.bsky.social #Antifa, runs with ✂️, I’m a problem for MAGAs, canoeist, kayaker, woodworker, reclamation, broadcast engineer, photographer, cordwood, gardener, beekeeper, butcher, baker, candlestick maker, cello, funhog, ANTIFA
UW-Platteville, IU, NMU
50501 8647
@omycorey @omycorey.bsky.social ELBOWS UP. Canada & Canadians will never allow a fascist regime to dictate to us.
Amy Dillon @amyedillon.bsky.social Librarian. Always reading, usually seething.
@dingleberrynw.bsky.social @dingleberrynw.bsky.social Diversity is Power!! #BLM Gay and progressive since a zygote. Widower, lonely, writer, knowledge sponge, animal/nature lover, art, music, well traveled, sexual deviant. Seattle/Paris 10
Je suis Franco-américain EN/FR
He/Him🇫🇷🇺🇦🏳️🌈
FilmAlicia @filmalicia.bsky.social Lifelong film buff, especially of film noir and screwball comedies, liberal Democrat, fan of fantasy and horror, anti-Trump with every fiber of my being. If you would like a follow back, please create a profile and some posts.
BigJerry1121 @bigjerry1121.bsky.social Looking for interesting posts and building a community here. I never used that fascist hellscape, formerly known as twitter, owned by the Nazi scumbag.
Any trolls, bigots, rightoids, bots, AI, MAGAts, bootlickers, and fascists will be blocked immediately.
Alexa Dumas @alexadoom.bsky.social ADK. MLS. Middle School Librarian. Public Librarian. Upstate NY. Reader. Lifelong Learner. 3rd Gen NYS Educator. Proud NYSUT Member. SLJ Reviewer. Read Young Teen Lit. Matcha Lover. Cat Mom. Ignorance Fighter. PBS Kid. Statements Are My Own.
John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social Father, Husband, Teacher & Writer. Jedi Knight & friend to Captain Solo. Winter is coming. Mets, Orange, Isles, Bills fan. Novelist & writer NOT the artist with the same name! Opinions stated are mine alone.
Winter's Discord: https://a.co/d/03HllUfX
Lisa Cloherty @lisaclohertybooks.bsky.social Kidlit author |Terrance the Hothead (2022) Mabel’s Mitzvah (2026, Free Spirit) | SCBWI.
Find me on instagram: @lisaclohertybooks
Alex Finkeldey @scatterbee.bsky.social illustrator & picture book maker // Kingston 🇨🇦// cat enthusiast
portfolio: https://artbyscatterbee.com
books, socials, etc: https://bio.site/scatterbee
Just Teacher Things @justteacherthings.bsky.social Children's Literature | Reading & Writing | Teaching & Learning | SFSU & Goddard College grad | readteachwrite.com
Jime Wimmer @prettylines.bsky.social 🩷Represented by Hen & Ink Literary https://henandink.com
💚SCBWI Southern Breeze RIC
🩵Illustrator/Author: Prettylines.com
💚 Visiting Assistant Professor Hollins University
💛Oz Sign up! https://linktr.ee/prettylines
Jeanne Walker Harvey @jeannewharvey.bsky.social #kidlit author! I value the power of words, art, dancing & chocolate.
I love writing picture book bios about inspiring creative people!
Recent books: THE GLASS PYRAMID, ELSE B. IN THE SEA, ABLAZE WITH COLOR & DRESSING UP THE STARS. jeanneharvey.com
Kristine Ada Carter @kristineadacarter.bsky.social MG and YA writer and poet. Represented by literary agent, A.J. Van Belle at The Booker Albert Literary Agency. KristineAdaCarter.com
Leila Sales @leilasalesbooks.bsky.social Leila Sales suffers for her art. Well, it's not really art. But it's something. And she suffers.
Author, editor, eater of chocolate. My newest book, THE MUSEUM OF LOST AND FOUND, is out now!
https://linktr.ee/leilasalesbooks
Picture Book Gold @picturebookgold.bsky.social Picture book authors & illustrators • Follow us and join the fun! • #KidLit
#PBGold Banner & logo art by Molly Cranch
Sara Van Note @svannotes.bsky.social Science & nature writer for kids and adults. Also educator, naturalist, meanderer. 🌱 🦋 🦜
Member SCBWI, SEJ, NASW.
Represented by Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
New Mexico = home