Dave Roman @yaytime.bsky.social Human waffle and author of Astronaut Academy and Unicorn Boy from First Second Books. Yaytime.com
Chicago Public Library @chipublib.bsky.social Read, learn, discover.
Opened in 1873, Chicago Public Library has locations in every Chicago neighborhood.
Alina Chau @alinachau.bsky.social Children’s book author & illustrator 🌈
Celebrating friendship, culture & creativity through stories ✨
📚 Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven (First Second, Fall 2026)
🌐 alinachau.com
💌 alinachau.substack.com/about
tohdraws @daryltoh.bsky.social Comic artist, illustrator and a collector of ocean liner models. May post +18 nsfw works so no minors please. 💀🔞
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
Paola Santos @pgsantosb.bsky.social Venezuelan children's book author. A HOUSE IN MY BARRIO (Henry Holt. Fall 2026), HOW TO EAT A MANGO (2024). Rep’d by Jen Rofé.
https://linktr.ee/paolagsantos
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Mike Ciccotello @ciccotello.bsky.social Author-illustrator of books for kids.
Leonard Builds a Haunted House, Beach Toys vs. School Supplies, Twins
DrawWithMrMike.com
Represented by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
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@neonsquidbooks.bsky.social @neonsquidbooks.bsky.social 
Deborah @deborahbee.bsky.social Academic librarian. Public art & transportation, map, cat, & dog enthusiast. Philadelphian. She/her. 
Kate Scharff @katescharff.bsky.social 🛋️Psychotherapist 35+ yrs experience
📚4x Author
🏠Individual and Couple Therapy, Divorce Consultation, Collaborative Divorce, Family Mediation
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Mikayla Bridge @mikaylabridge.bsky.social Mik 👋 | OF FLAME AND FURY (Macmillan, July 2025)
📍 Naarm/Melbourne
Rep'd by Bell Lomax Moreton
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/mikayla_bridge
Aimee Lim @aimeelimwrites.bsky.social Author of THE SPINDLE OF FATE and THE THREAD OF DESTINY. Won Jeopardy!
John S. Mead @evoexplorer.bsky.social 35 year Biology Teacher and Evolution educator.
Passionate about science literacy, human origins, video microscopy, and nature photography
Aspiring science author
Texas OBTA, NABT Evo Ed Awardee.
https://www.youtube.com/@jsmead
Diggy @diggymungo.bsky.social Comics and illustration
Creator of Lily Crown😇 and SKATE!!! Fire 100🛹 on Webtoon
💍 @mallowboo.bsky.social
Rep’d by @loveleemonicaa
https://linktr.ee/diggymungo
steph🔜ANYC N20 @mallowboo.bsky.social author-illustrator
graphic novels: PRESIDENT OF THE ANIME CLUB (9/1/26) and SKATE FIRE (tba) both with First Second publishing ⭐️
co-creator/husband @diggymungo.bsky.social
Rep’d by @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social
linktr.ee/mallowboo
Kathleen S Allen @kathleea.bsky.social Cats, tea, K-Pop and British detective shows. YA gothic horror, THE RESURRECTIONIST out now!
Buy here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250341778/theresurrectionist/
Kathleensallen.wordpress.com
Rep: abrooks@abla.agency
K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com The (reluctantly) official BlueSky account of award-winning author (Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion), editor, teacher (@writingtheother.com), and freelance adventuress K. Tempest Bradford (she/her).
Jillian Heise @heisereads.bsky.social {Hi-Z} | 2026 Caldecott Committee | Elementary Librarian | MLIS | Former 7/8 ELA Teacher | NBCT | #ClassroomBookADay founder | she/her | *views are personal & do not represent my employer
https://campsite.bio/heisereads
heisereads.com
classroombookaday.com
Allen R. Wells @allenwriteswell.bsky.social 
Sarah Kapit @sarahkapit.bsky.social Author of GET A GRIP, VIVY COHEN! and other books for young readers. RACHEL FRIEDMAN chapter books currently available wherever you get books. Rep: Jennifer Laughran
www.sarahkapit.com
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
pwdunn.bsky.social @pwdunn.bsky.social Author of Jackalope, a YA psychological thriller coming in January 2026 from Feiwel & Friends
Josh Rosen @joshdraws.com Professional cartoonist and illustrator. Comic books and Kid Lit. Account managed by Tapioca the rat terrier
Co-creator of HISTORY COMICS: WORLD WAR II (First Second) and THE GOOD FIGHT (Scholastic)
https://www.joshdraws.com
Linda Liu @ SBCF 2025 @lindersliu.bsky.social 🐛 very hungry illustrator
🍏 author of HIDDEN GEM and SOUR APPLE
🖼️ visit: https://linktr.ee/lindersliu chat: lindersliu@gmail.com
Pat Zietlow Miller (she/her) @patzmiller.bsky.social Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 80+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Coming soon: KEEP THE GHOST LIGHT ON
www.katemessner.com
Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social Publisher of cutting-edge SFF short fiction.
Macmillan Audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social Audiobook publisher in NYC.
Click. Listen. Enjoy! 🎧
https://linktr.ee/macmillanaudio
HarperStacks @harperstacks.bsky.social Home of the HarperCollins Children's Books School and Library team. Find us at HarperStacks.com
Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social I make comics
Elana K. Arnold @elanakarnold.bsky.social Writer, Human, Author, Friend.
Angela is reading @angelacervantes.bsky.social Published children's author. I get paid to make stuff up. Yay!
She/Her/Ella
#AdAstraPerAspera
Gennifer Choldenko @choldenko.bsky.social Co-author of the Dogtown series with Katherine Applegate. (Am I lucky or what?) Author of The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman.
Mary Lundquist @mary-lundquist.bsky.social Artist - children’s book illustrator - person in New Jersey
Author and illustrator of Cat & Bunny and The Little Forest Keepers, Rep’d by Steven Malk at Writers House
www.marylundquist.com
Caroline Bonin @carolinebonin.bsky.social Fantasy author repped by Emelie Burl
A BARISTA'S GUIDE TO LOVE & LARCENY coming 2026 from F&F/Macmillan
https://linktr.ee/carolinebonin
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.
Helaine Becker @helainebecker.bsky.social Writer of words and artist of art. Kids books and pretty pictures are my thing. And coffee. Lots of coffee. Helainebecker.com and Helainebeckerart.com.
Melissa Stewart @mstewartscience.bsky.social Writes science books for kids. Cares deeply about literacy and science education. Nonfiction advocate. She/her https://melissa-stewart.com
Maris Wicks @mariswicks.bsky.social I’m actually just three penguins in a trench coat.
mariswicks.com
Boss_Librarian @kcboyd.bsky.social 🎉2022 SLJ “School Librarian of the Year”
✊🏾ALA Executive Board
#KC_SaidIt
Angela Dominguez @angeladominguez.bsky.social NYTimes Bestseller, 2X Pura Belpré Honoree, Sid Fleischman Award, SCBWI Middle Grade Fiction Honor
Illustrator & KidLit author
www.angeladominguezbooks.com
Author Padma Venkatraman @padmatv.bsky.social THE BRIDGE HOME, BORN BEHIND BARS, SAFE HARBOR, A TIME TO DANCE. WNDB Walter Award winning writer, reader, poet, oceanographer, yoga teacher. K-12 Education. Science, nature, music, art. DEI. “Stories are ships on which we sail oceans of hope.”
Becca Coffindaffer @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social ✨Queer dystopian, scifi and fantasy author
🙅♂️Professional gen AI hater
🚫Anti book bans, anti TERFs
🔪The Bloody and the Damned
🚀Crownchasers
Diane Zahler @dianezahler.bsky.social writer of middle-grade fiction about princesses, magic, and bubonic plague
http://www.dianezahler.com/
Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social Middle school #librarian who has read EVERY fiction book in my #SchoolLibrary. Posts a new #MGLit book review EVERY DAY at http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com, where I've been since 2006. 👍📚
Teaching for Change @teachingchange.bsky.social We provide teachers and parents with tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world.
D.C. Area: @dcaesj.bsky.social and Zinn Ed Project (with Rethinking Schools) @zinnedproject.bsky.social.
Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social She/her. Senior agent @ Aevitas Creative Management. Founded real/brilliant, inc. Writer/surface pattern designer. Reign/Sounders/Seahawks fan. I'm always reading. 
Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social Official account of the Trans Rights Readathon! 🏳️⚧️ March 17-31, 2026. 🏳️⚧️
https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Rachel Michelle Wilson @rachmakesbooks.bsky.social Kidlit author-illustrator wondering her way into stories • HOW TO PEE YOUR PANTS: THE RIGHT WAY (Macmillan) • TO CATCH A GHOST (July 1) • rep: Lindsay Auld at Writers House • http://rachelmichellewilson.substack.com • https://linktr.ee/rachelmichellewilso
Supriya Kelkar @supriyakelkar.bsky.social Screenwriter/Author/Illustrator. New in 2024 - KAMALA RAISED HER HAND and AND YET YOU SHINE: THE KOHINOOR DIAMOND, COLONIZATION, AND RESISTANCE. 2025- THANK YOU, TEACHER!
Sara Hudson @saraphudson.bsky.social Passionate about family, children, books, equity. Views expressed are my own, no surprise to anyone who knows me! (She/Her)
Bookseller and creator of supplemental materials for picture books and middle grade.
Hanna R. Neier @hannaneier.bsky.social Author of WHEN YOU WRITE BACK (Feiwel & Friends, 3/9/27) | Freelance Writer and Editor | Words in Lilith Magazine, POPSUGAR, Kveller etc | Rep'd by @lecrockett.bsky.social at @triadaus.bsky.social
www.hannaneier.com
Alyssa Bermudez @bermudezbahama.bsky.social Illustrator, Author & Artistic Direction | NYC to Tasmania | 🇵🇷🇺🇸🇦🇺 Big Apple Diaries & Run Home are my graphic novel memoirs! Live events artist, craft lover, toddler mom.
www.alyssabermudezart.com/social
Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social Locus, BSFA, Ignyte Finalist. Award winner. Chef. Librarian. Author of 7+ books. Next: Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, 2/3/2026. Bostonian in Germany.
Stacy McAnulty @stacymcanulty.bsky.social Author of over 40 books for children. Loves brunch, Taylor Swift, and the Green Bay Packers.
Mike Cavallaro @mikecavallaro.bsky.social Cartoonist. Creator of NICO BRAVO, EOWULF, & more. Represented by Caryn Wiseman at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Books: https://bookshop.org/shop/Mike_Cavallaro
Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social Author of THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY (Feiwel & Friends/Titan Books, February 2026). Mellow Dramatic. Franco-canadienne. The world’s top Cats (2019) enthusiast. || She/they
Rep: Alexandra Levick, Writers House
linktr.ee/ellegrenier
Faith Pray @faithpray7.bsky.social PNW author+illustrator | THE DAY WE GOT LOST |
Repp’d: @mollyoneillbooks
faithpraybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/faithpray7
Annette Bay Pimentel @annettepimentel.bsky.social Writing books for kids about the people and ideas that shape our world.
HOW A BEAR BECAME A BOOK (Macmillan). I'm repped by Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown, and I represent the people of Latah County, Idaho on the library board.
Maria Gianferrari (she/her) @gianferrari-m.bsky.social Creature & nature lover
Bird nerd 🐦
Wordsmith
#Kidlit Fiction & #STEM PBs:
Latest: Just One Oak 🐿 & Puffins!
Horn Book honoree for Fungi Grow 🍄
Obsessed with auroras
Website: https://mariagianferrari.com/
Van Hoang @iamvanhoang.bsky.social Author of books for grownups (MONSTROUS MISSES MAI, SILVER & SMOKE)
And tweens (AUNTIE Q's GOLDEN CLAWS NAIL SALON (2025), GIRL GIANT AND THE MONKEY KING series)
Rep: @marycmoore
Librarian✌️
Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Fantasy author of bells, bones, and buried gods
🌿Up next: THE GODS WE BURIED (Summer '27) @getunderlined
🌿Rep: Stuti Telidevara + Pete Knapp
Josh Galarza @joshgalarza.bsky.social YA author, printmaker, book artist, sculptor. MFA at VCU English. Check out my debut, THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY, July 23, 2024 from Henry Holt and Co. (BYR). 
Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social "Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?"
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
Tomi Adeyemi @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social TIME 100, hugo & nebula-awardwinning writer of the instant #1 new york times bestselling #childrenofbloodandbone trilogy
Lily Williams @lwbean.bsky.social • Author • Artist • IF ANIMALS DISAPPEARED (series) • GO WITH THE FLOW Eisner nominated/LA Times Book Prize finalist • She/Her •
https://linktr.ee/lwbean 
Ari Tison @aritison.bsky.social Poet | Award-Winning Author of Saints of the Household (FSG) | Bribri 🌺 Forthcoming: Together We See (FSG) & When I Was A Little Girl (HarperCollins)
Jennifer March Soloway @marchsoloway.bsky.social Founder + Agent @StarlingLiterary | she/her | @MillsMFALit alum | horror fan (bring on the blood) | In love with all things story | ✨Revision is magical!✨
Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Eric Smith/Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary
Kym (she/her) @librarykym.bsky.social Youth librarian | Crochet lover | Plant mom | Hiker | MLIS | 2023 LJ Mover and Shaker | Hear Our Voices team member | Cozy Gamer | My thoughts are mine alone |
🖤🤍💜
Ezra Jack Keats Foundation @ejkf.bsky.social ejkf.org
mx. butlertron @butlertron.bsky.social dc native transplanted to toronto. librarian : BFYA, Alex, Walter, Stonewall, Printz. transmasculine genderqueer f@ggot. father, foodie, Jew. they/he
The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social The Author Village is a collective of forward-thinking and award-winning children’s book creators, educators, and librarians available for in-person and virtual school and library visits, conferences, workshops, and professional development experiences.
Caroline Huntoon (they/them) @carolinehuntoon.bsky.social MG author, out now: SKATING ON MARS, LINUS AND ETTA COULD USE A WIN, and GOING OVERBOARD
Rep: Jess Mileo at Inkwell
Musical theater and Murder, She Wrote enthusiast
carolinehuntoon.com
A.L. Graziadei @algraziadei.bsky.social -5 on all charisma checks
Author of Printz Honoree ICEBREAKER, and IN REPAIR | they/them
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Nawal Qarooni / NQC Literacy @nqcliteracy.bsky.social Educator. Author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Exalting Home Experiences + Classroom Practices for Collective Care. Adjunct faculty at NYU. Board member of Library of Congress Literacy Advisory + NCTE Build Your Stack. Mama of 4. NQCLiteracy.org
Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Illustrator, author (The Pink Pajamas, S&S 2025) | Rep: Tracy Marchini | Co-host @kidlitart.bsky.social chat | 🚫AI/NFT
🎨 CharleneChua.com
🖼️ Links - charlenechua.com/links
✏️ Alt account @sygnin.com
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Katie Quinn @quinndiesel.bsky.social Hi there! :) 🎨🌷🌻
hawkheartstudios.com
EdTrust @edtrust.bsky.social Advancing policies & practices to dismantle the racial & economic barriers embedded in the American education system. www.edtrust.org
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Amanda Hunt @thenextgenlib.bsky.social TheNextGenLibrarian is a TX HS librarian who reads 1 📖 a day, loves #edtech, presenting & being a LIBRARIAN!
#TLsky #edusky #skybrarians #Skybrarian
www.thenextgenlibrarian.com
bit.ly/TheNextGenLibrarianBioLink
bit.ly/TheNextGenLitSociety
Diana Mayo @dianamayoillo.bsky.social Illustrator, represented by Andrea Morrison at Writers House.
Currently working on a picture book with Farrar Straus & Giroux
Rebecca Gardyn Levington @rebeccaglevington.bsky.social Rhyming PB Author & Poet. WHATEVER COMES TOMORROW; BRAINSTORM!; AFIKOMAN WHERE'D YOU GO?; LITTLE DREIDEL LEARNS TO SPIN, WRITE HERE WRITE NOW, I WILL ALWAYS BE…,FINDING FORGIVENESS (8/5/25), SOME DAYS I’M THE WIND (9/9/25) + more!
RebeccaGardynLevington.c
Maria van Lieshout @vanlieshoutstudio.bsky.social Dutch-born, California-based illustrator/graphic novelist. Printz Honor. Nat. Book Award longlist🐦⬛
songofablackbird.com
instagram.com/vanlieshoutstudio
linktr.ee/vanlieshoutstudio
Adina King @adinaking.bsky.social Author of THE HOUSE NO ONE SEES, haunter of small bookstores, herder of huskies, VCFA, gnome whisperer, teacher. opinions my own. (she/her) https://adinakingauthor.com/
A Better World Is Possible - The Book! @abetterworldbook.bsky.social Graphic novel by Danica Novgorodoff & @meerasub.bsky.social
Coming March 2026 from @01firstsecond.bsky.social
"Urgent, helpful, and hopeful portrait of what's possible" ~John Green
https://abetterworldthebook.org/
Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social Eisner Award winning writer & drawer of comics. Exhausted Canadian, here to talk about Star Trek, Dragon Age & other things that I love. My cat's name is Maple.
www.faitherinhicks.com
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Amanda MacGregor @amandamacgregor.bsky.social Writing, reading, reviewing, libraries, dogs, children’s lit, mental health, and Teen Librarian Toolbox. All opinions solely my own. She/her.
Adrianna Cuevas @adriannacuevas.bsky.social Award-winning middle grade author. What Fell From the Sky and Rancho Espanto paperback out now! she/her 🇨🇺 Runs on pastelitos and BTS.
https://linktr.ee/adriannacuevas
Gabe Cole Novoa @thegabecole.bsky.social Award-winning & New York Times Bestselling author of THE WICKED BARGAIN, MOST ARDENTLY, THE DIABLO’S CURSE & more. Trans masc. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (he/him)
🔗 lnk.bio/thegabecole
Lori Tecler @loritecler.bsky.social Elementary school library media specialist; 💙 literacy & freedom to read advocate 💙; 📚reader;📚; goldendoodle mom🐾; DC sports fan 🏒🏈🏀; University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate & Badger sports fan 🦡
https://www.donorschoose.org/ms-tecler
Amber McBride @ambsmcbride.bsky.social 🥀Award Winning Author/Folklorist/ Hoodoo/ Poet/Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner, National Book Award finalist.🏳️🌈
🥀Cozy (Virginia) Country Living