Junior Library Guild @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social A collection development service providing libraries with the best new-release books for children and young adults.
Keika Yamaguchi 🌼 やまぐちけいか @keikashouse.com Author-Illustrator | Animation professional | Concept Artist
作家とイラストレーター | アメリカのアニメーションスタジオのアーティスト/アートディレクター | コンセプトアーティスト
🏠keikashouse.com
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
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca.
Elizabeth Everett | Educator & Kidlit Author 📚 @elizabetheverett.bsky.social ➡️ Boosting books for #Teachers, #Educators, #Librarians, #Parents, #Authors, #Writers, and #Readers
💙 Former #Teacher turned #Homeschool mama
✏️ #Kidlit #Writer and #SCBWI member
📚 #PB #Author rep'd by Michelle Witte
🖱️ elizabetheverettbooks.com
G E McQueen 莫琨 @gemcq.bsky.social Open Access Librarian | Artist and co-founder of liminalart org | 香港人 | #citylis alumnus | ASD | Interests: #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, Information theories & Contemporary art. 
Elizabeth Rose Stanton @erstanton.bsky.social Artist.Author.Illustrator.Ancestral Canadian
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
KayCat 🔜 AC D05 @kaycatsart.com Kayla! | She/Her
Comic Colorist
Art Director @ ScytheStudios
Sometimes in Scotland 🏴,
Sometimes in New Jersey 🥯
https://kaycat.carrd.co/
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com
👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social I draw pictures, I bake bread, I go for walks.
Columbia county, NY
Valerie Bolling @valeriebolling.bsky.social Author of books for children and teachers | Longtime educator | DEIAB advocate | Born in NY | Raised and resides in CT
https://valeriebolling.com
Authors Guild; SCBWI; 12x12; Boyds Mills, #kidlit #PB #earlyreaders #booksforteachers
Michael Adam Lengyel @malengyel.bsky.social 2023 Eisner nominated Best Webcomic - The Mannamong
- Author/Illustrator
https://michaellengyel.com
https://stories.michaellengyel.com
https://mannamong.com
Meg Auchenbach @megauchenbach.bsky.social 🎨 Author & Illustrator
📖If You Are an Artist (Peter Pauper 2024)
📖When Night Sleeps (Post Wave 2027)
📖Blabby Crabby (Scholastic 2027)
#kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
🎨 Custom Pet Portraits
📧 megauchenbach@gmail.com
💻 www.megauchenbach.com
Kirsten Pendreigh @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social Picture Book Author & Poet. https://www.kirstenpendreigh.com/
WHEN A TREE FALLS, PW ⭐️; WHAT FISH ARE SAYING, SLJ ⭐️; MAYBE A WHALE, Horn Book⭐️ Fanfare Book; JLG, CCBC⭐️; LUNA'S GREEN PET (Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Next: CAMPING IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
Emily Feinberg @ecfeinberg.bsky.social Children’s book editor. Loves dogs. Likes ducks.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Grace Kendall @gracekendallbooks.bsky.social Executive Editor of award-winning and bestselling children’s books at FSG Books for Young Readers (Macmillan). Books, food, fine art, cocktails/mocktails, and Manhattan née Brooklyn. Opinions mine alone.
Rebecca Sherman @rebeccagent.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent at Writers House. Good for children’s book and theater recommendations. Let’s share some joy and whimsy here, okay?
Pat Cummings @betnoire.bsky.social Olympic medalist, Grammy winner, ballerina emeritus, storyteller.
Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social Eisner Award winning EiC ComicsBeat.com and KComicsBeat.com. NYC. https://linktr.ee/Comixace
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)
Comic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com Comics news, interviews, and reviews focused on the indie space and home of the Cryptid Creator Corner podcast. Promoting inclusion and diversity in the medium. We cover board games too.
🚫AI
Find us: https://www.comicbookyeti.com/links
Becky & Frank @beckyandfrank.com We make comics and cartoons and paintings! Becky was lead character designer on Steven Universe & Adventure Time! Frank wrote on Bee & Puppycat! Together we made Tiny Kitten Teeth, Tigerbuttah & Capture Creatures!
https://beckyandfrank.com
Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social Maker of fine queer comics (and some pretty trashy ones too). Author of MIDSUMMER SISTERS, SEA LEGS (with Jules Bakes), THE GOLDEN HOUR, THE DEEP & DARK BLUE, and more. She/her. ENG/GER
http://niki-smith.com
Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social Writer, artist, comic book creator. The October Girl (Book Three coming October from Mad Cave/Maverick), Amelia Shadows (Book Two out now from Papercutz), DC's Misfits of Magic, and others. He/him.
Literary agent: Moe Ferrara at TriadaUS.
Jimmy Gaspero @jimmygaspero.bsky.social Dad, Lawyer, Writer, and Interviewer. One of the hosts of Comic Book Yeti’s Cryptid Creator Corner podcast. 
Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social Maker of children’s books and tv shows: RED PANDA & MOON BEAR (Top Shelf/IDW), SUPER MAGIC BOY (Random House Graphic)
College professor | PhD | Literacy and childhood studies researcher
www.jarodrosello.com
🇨🇺🇺🇸 | Tampa, FL
Mike Marts @mikemarts.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief & EVP at Mad Cave Studios | formerly of the Big Two
Jenniea Carter (二ア) @coilsandbooks.bsky.social Nerd | Creativity Advocate| Literary Associate| Harlem Born and Raised| All opinions are my own |(She, Her)
Erinn Pascal Potters (she/her/hers) @erinnpascal.bsky.social NYT #1 bestseller & Eisner-nominated book editor
Children’s, graphic novels, comics & pop culture
Author Stewardship Manager @ PJ Library (@pjlibrary.org)
WFH/freelance. Sometimes Cala Spinner. #ArtByHumans #WritingbyHumans
www.erinnpascaleditorial.com
Oak Tree Comics @oaktreecomics.bsky.social An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
Chris Mautner @cmautner.bsky.social Editor at @pennlive.bsky.social. Co-editor at @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Putters around here and there. 
Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨ @debbiefong.com Eisner & Ignatz nominated cartoonist ✨ I make fun stuff at www.pommopress.com and work on books! Rep’d by Janna Morishima ✌️🇹🇼🇺🇸
🚌 NEXT STOP
📮 THE FARAWAY FOREST: Wally’s Route
🌲 THE FARAWAY FOREST: Hester’s Big Dream
🔗 debbiefong.com
📍 brooklyn
she / her
Gina Gagliano @ginagagliano.bsky.social comics, books, ice cream
contact at: gina.gagliano@gmail.com
Emily Jane Foster @emilyjaneart.bsky.social Freelance artist from Surrey, UK. MSc Biology, QTS. Science, nature & folklore/myth.
www.emilyjaneart.co.uk
https://emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com
Commissions: emilyjaneartstudio@gmail.com
Married to @drrelling.dev
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Katie Kennedy @katiewritesbks.bsky.social History instructor, writer. Rep by Kate McKean. The Declaration Decoded (5/2026), Did You Hear What Happened at the Alamo (9/2026); The Presidents Decoded; The Constitution Decoded; Hearts on Thin Ice; Learning to Swear in America #lgrw
Meredith Walker @meredeetch.bsky.social Co-Founder Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. Author “Be Yourself and Other Bad Advice”. Former SNL. Former Nick News with Linda Ellerbee.
Susan Van Metre @skeetervm.bsky.social Hopelessly devoted to books. Editorial Director Walker Books US/Candlewick Press
Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social Literary agent at Root Literary. Builder of bookmakers. Collector & connector of words + art + people + stories. Shameless sharer of cat pics. mollyoneillbooks.com
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Tiff Liao @tiffliao.bsky.social Executive Editor @ Random House Books for Young Readers. 408 in the land of 212. It's pronounced meow with an L. Opinions are my own. She/her. Banner art by Diobelle Cerna. 
Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
Laura J. Nelson @laurajnelson.bsky.social Reporter at the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles. Former @latimes.com reporter, native Kansan and green thumb. 🌱 Securely message me on Signal (ljn.11).
Marie-Laure Couët @marielaurecouet.bsky.social Illustrator & designer 🌈 she/elle
Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI Canada East
BUTTERFLY SEA, Tielmour Press Jan 2026
https://MarieLaureCouet.myportfolio.com
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #NoAI
Alexandra Thompson @alexandradraws.bsky.social Children's illustrator & author in Maine. Rep'd by Hannah Mann at Writers House. See more at alexandraco.com
JacobGrantBooks @jacobgrantbooks.bsky.social Author - Illustrator - Dad
🏆 2024 Bologna Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition Winner
https://jacobgrantbooks.com/
Elizabeth Sparg @elizabethsparg.bsky.social Illustrator - Children's books, pattern and product. Animals and wildlife.
Repped in the US by WendyLynn & Co.
Elizabethsparg.com
The Sartorial Librarians Podcast @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social Join @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social and @paulvinelli.bsky.social for celebrations of picture books & librarian fashion.
Apple: https://apple.co/4e4mM3h
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ANgYge
Instagram: https://bit.ly/4dCh09b
Brooke Boynton-Hughes @bboyntonhughes.bsky.social Children's book illustrator/author
Honee Jang | Children's Book Illustrator & Designer @honeej.bsky.social 장한이 (Pronounced "Han-ee")
Korean American children's book illustrator/designer based in London
🐈⬛ Rep'd by Christy T. Ewers at The CAT Agency
Stephanie Cooke @hellocookie.bsky.social Writer of comics. Raccoon and pun enthusiast. 📖 RACC PACK 🦝 PILLOW TALK 👑 OH MY GODS!⚡ PARANORTHERN 🔮 She/Her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/hellocookie • https://stephaniecooke.ca
Kristin Varner @kristinvarner.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator, author and graphic novelist based in the Seattle area. DOG TROUBLE (First Second) out now! Horse nerd. Cheese enthusiast. Rep’d by Teresa Kietlinski at https://bookmarkliterary.com/
https://www.kristinvarner.com/
Andrew Katz @andrewkatzauthor.bsky.social #Kidlit author 🇨🇦. #picturebooks Editor and story coach. Forest of Reading nominee. Co-founder Picture Books, Eh! Upcoming: JACKIE'S DRAWING (2025) LITTLE HEARTS IN THE SNOW (2025). Recent: A STARLIT TRIP TO THE LIBRARY (2022). andrewkatzbooks.ca. He/him
Justin (JP) Chanda @jpchanda.bsky.social Children's Trade & Salaam Reads Publisher at Simon & Schuster. Brooklyn based Sky Farmer, Bread Baker and Hater of some renown. (*posts not sanctioned by S&S)
Ruth Chan @ohtruth.bsky.social Illustrator, author, comics maker
Iris Quiroga @irisquiroga.bsky.social 🇨🇴🇺🇸 Children’s book author/illustrator based in San Diego, CA
irisquiroga.com
Bethanie Murguia @aquapup.com Seeker, explorer, creature adorer. I make graphic novels & picture books, including WAGNIFICENT (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan). www.aquapup.com
Chris Robertson @chrisrbooks.bsky.social Author/Illustrator of many delightful picture books and Storyboard Professor at Otis College of Art & Design www.chrisrobertsonbooks.com
Alex Lu @waxenwings.bsky.social Editor at Random House Graphic, Writer-in-progress
Rachel Diebel @diebelra.bsky.social Children’s book editor, bisexual, spreadsheet aficionado. She/her.
Samia Garcia-Fakih @samiagarciafakih.bsky.social Editor at First Second, painter and writer the rest of the time.
https://www.samiafakih.com/
Vera Brosgol @verabrosgol.bsky.social books, bread, 'blivion. https://linktr.ee/Verabee
Gene Luen Yang @geneluenyang.bsky.social Cartoonist and Comic Book Writer
🧧American Born Chinese
🏀Dragon Hoops
🐢Secret Coders
🗡Books of Clash
🦸🏻♂️Superman Smashes the Klan
👊🏼Shang-Chi
🐵Monkey Prince
☁️Avatar
Calista Brill @calistabrill.bsky.social Editorial Director, First Second. Pre-order my upcoming graphic novel CREAKY ACRES with Nilah Magruder!
Jen Linnan @jenlinnan.bsky.social 
Liz Nealon @liznealon.bsky.social Literary agent and founder@greatdoglit. News geek. Science freak. Working to become a better photographer. Opinions are my own.
Colby Sharp @colbysharp.bsky.social ⭐️driven by gratitude⭐️Husband 👫 Dad 👦👧👧👦👦 Teacher 👔 Reader 📚 Runner 🏃 Writer ✏️ Nerd 🤓 VOTE! #NerdyBookClub | views expressed are mine
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
Joann Hill @joannhnyc.bsky.social Creative Director @disneyhyperiondesign , potter, Wife, Mom, Sister, Feminist, Friend, Ally, List maker, Headstrong Club.
Renee Kurilla @reneekurilla.bsky.social Boston area mom, illustrator & author | Books for preK-elementary | #1 NYT Bestselling Illustrator of JUST BECAUSE ☀️
The CAT Agency @thecatagency.bsky.social Boutique art & literary agency, representing creators from all over the world. 
Aliza Werner @alizawerner.bsky.social Educator. Literacy Consultant. Reader. Writer. NCTE. Traveler. Knitter. Wife. Dog Mom x2. Jewish. she/her
Stephanie Graegin @steph-graegin.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. I make picture books.
Rotem Moscovich @spanishbroom.bsky.social Editorial Director of Picturebooks at Knopf BFYR
@dorothiar.bsky.social @dorothiar.bsky.social 
@lorinicholsbook.bsky.social @lorinicholsbook.bsky.social I’m a children’s book writer and illustrator. Agent Joanna Volpe, New Leaf Literary
Greg Pizzoli @gregpizzoli.bsky.social Maker of picture books, comics, early readers and screenprints. Preorder my new book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721979/earl-and-worm-1-the-b
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
Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social Children’s books & editorial illustrator, professor
🎥 Host of Gab ‘n’ Doodle every Thurs on Insta
📘 BOOGY & TEE and TWINKLE & HEW: 9.1.26
🚫 No AI Art
https://linktr.ee/studiohoffmann
Lisa Anchin @lisaanchin.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, artist mother, Smithie, tea-drinker, dessert-MacGyver, midnight adventurer.
Rep’d by Andrea Morrison @writershouseagency
Matthew Cordell @cordellmatthew.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Illustrator and author of books. 2018 Caldecott Medalist.
Michelle Thies @michellethies.bsky.social Illustrator & BG painter & cat lady
www.michellethies.com
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
Yu Kito Lee “Yuey” @studio-yuey.bsky.social Hello! I’m Yuey, a Japanese #Kidlit illustrator and a mama of 3 based in Los Angeles.
Represented by Kait Lee Feldmann at KT Literary.
Member of #SCBWI.
https://www.studio-yuey.com
✉️ hello@studio-yuey.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
KidLit TV @kidlittv.bsky.social 📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
Founder: Julie Gribble @juliegribble.bsky.social #kidlit
Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social Comics friend.
Linktr.ee/lucyknisley
Gareth Hinds @garethhinds.bsky.social Creator of acclaimed graphic novel adaptations of classics like The Odyssey, The Iliad, Beowulf, and more. www.garethhinds.com
Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4 awesome young adults. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
Erin Murphy @agentemurph.bsky.social Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and Aevitas Kids & Illustration. Member AALA. Knitter. Gamer. Cats and dogs. She/Her. Views expressed here are my own. Header photo is my backyard in Maine.
Lisa Yee . . . is confused about social media @lisayee.bsky.social New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
Matthew Holm @mattholm.bsky.social Creator of kids' books like BABYMOUSE, SQUISH, SUNNY SIDE UP & MARVIN AND THE MOTHS! https://matthewholm.net Invite me to your school/event: https://theauthorvillage.com/presenters/matthew-holm/
Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social Children's book editor, knitter, baker, erstwhile ballerina. Wrangler of two no longer small children. (she/her)
박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com
Cover art: Nancy So Miller
Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)