Katherine Thorne @sparklemarkers.bsky.social She/her. Picture book writer/illustrator.
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
I do not use AI for anything.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
Marcia Misawa | Author-Illustrator @marciamisawa.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator & Author 🎨
🌿 Born in Brazil, based in Florida. 🇯🇵🇧🇷🇺🇸
✨ Seeking representation
🔗 marciamisawa.com
Cheryl M. | PB Writer @oncealittledreamer.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇭🇰🇺🇸
PB Rising Stars runner up 🌟
Mediocre HK-style mahjong player.
Profile pic by @momisdrawing
@messypress.bsky.social @messypress.bsky.social 
Charlesworth Literary @charlesworthlit.bsky.social North Yorkshire based agency representing writers of fiction, music related nonfiction, poetry and children's fiction https://charlesworthliterary.com
Sheree Boyd @shereeboyd.bsky.social Illustrator | textile designer | dog aficionado (ask me about my dogs) | Texan trapped in New York
http://shereeboyd.com/
www.instagram.com/doodlesndogs/
https://www.redbubble.com/people/ShereeBoyd/explore?asc=u&page=1&sortOrder=recent
Stephanie Owens @stephanieowens.bsky.social 🇨🇦Canadian kidlit author/Photographer/Healthcare professional
Represented by Sharon Belcastro
https://stephaniemcowens.wordpress.com/
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 91/100
📚 Feeding the Monster
📺
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Metamorphosis Literary Agency @metamorphlitag.bsky.social Metamorphosis Literary Agency
Facebook: metamorphosislitagent
Instagram: metamorphosis_literary_agency
LinkedIn: metamorphosis-literary-agency
Tyler Cook @tylercookbooks.bsky.social M.Ed., Ed.S. Moonshine Press publisher & author. Education professional. 🏳️🌈 Check out my website at www.tylermcook.com.
Katie Quinn @quinndiesel.bsky.social Hi there! :) 🎨🌷🌻
hawkheartstudios.com
Luisa Uribe @lupencita.bsky.social Colombian illustrator, eater of sweets. She/her.
PATCHWORK MEMORIES -written by Monica Rojas- out Sept. 1!
www.luisauribe.com
@nerdpsyche.bsky.social @nerdpsyche.bsky.social “Any decent society has to be built on trust and love, and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things...to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.” ― Myles Horton
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Emily Hamilton-Sanders @hamiltonsanders.bsky.social Reading, writing, and sharing #KidLit. Aspiring author. Artist. Milspouse. Cat mom.
LGBTQ+ & disability ally. Celebrating kindness, curiosity, and inclusion 🌈
June Leonard @junebroeck.bsky.social Writer
Layla Hawke - author @laylahawke2.bsky.social Human Writer who cares abt the environment, fairness, equality, animals...
Navigations series-dystopian, fantasy, romance, also sweet romance, fantasy. Reader
NO DMs-It can said on a post-I mute or 🚫
INKLING ILLUSTRATION AGENCY @inklingagency.bsky.social A small but mighty illustration agency, representing an outstanding team of hand-picked creatives worldwide. If you'd like to collaborate with any of our illustrators, please email hello@inklingillustration.com to discuss your project needs.
Jeff Harter @jeffharter.bsky.social Children's book Illustrator, aspiring author, Assistant Professor of illustration, and explorer of humor, whimsy and timelessness! Illustrator of The Lion on the Bus, Trusty Bus, 10 little Vehicles and the My Life is Weird series.
Jenn @jennwow.bsky.social (writer/artist/librarian) co-creator of The Sunflower Club, an aspiring indie animation studio🌻 Little Wolf short film (she/they, white, Bi, 26) #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter https://jennrustportfolio.square.site/
#art
#dragonage
#dccomics
Norene Paulson @nrpaulson.bsky.social I love words! Picture book author. Animal lover. NILA'S PERFECT COAT (Beaming Books, '23)📚WHAT'S SILLY HAIR DAY WITH NO HAIR? (Albert Whitman, '21) 📚 BENNY'S TRUE COLORS, (Imprint/Macmillan, '20) Rep: Naomi Davis, BookEnds. She/her
www.norenepaulson.com
Anne Armstrong @childbookart.bsky.social wonder hunter | art agent #kidlitart | tree + neighborhood advocate
tinyurl.com/t4vzkrne
Picture Book Pause @picturebookpause.bsky.social Inserting moments of joy in your doomscroll via the mighty artform of the picture book, using examples on our bookshelf in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Profile pic is a Brian Wildsmith owl.) Always check the alt-text.
Julia Hubery @julia-hubery.bsky.social Children's Book Author:
Picture Books & Fiction for 5-11 years
Love writing children’s books, reading them, talking about them
- and hearing kids talk about them!
My LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-hubery
Jess Jardim-Wedepohl 🇿🇦 @jessjardimwedepohl.bsky.social Illustrator and designer for people and the planet 🎨 Kidlit artist ☀️ Climatebase & Terra.do Fellow, Clean Creative 🌍 Book Dasher 📚 JQC alto and committee person 🎶🏳️🌈 she/her
www.behance.net/jesswedepohl
www.linkedin.com/in/jesswedepohl
@slybookrep.bsky.social @slybookrep.bsky.social 
Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social He/him
Children’s author, dad, former teacher of 13 years 🏳️🌈
Contact: ian@thereadingrealm.co.uk
Agent: Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary
Manel Ollé @manelolle.bsky.social Literatura i sinologia. UPF Humanitats. https://www.escolabloom.com/
https://linktr.ee/manelolle?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8666ca40-9ea1-4794-9bfe-354b2b153b7c
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Awards @buckeyekidsread.bsky.social Ohio's reader's choice book awards, nominated by and voted on by students of Ohio. Website: bcbookaward.info
marty lapointe-malchik @mlapointemalchik.bsky.social Collage artist, author, PBParty '23 HM, 50PreciousWords Prize Winner '21 SCBWI, 12x12, Writers’ Loft, Good Ship Illustration Crew, Walden walker, recipe ranker, library lover. She/her
Kate ✨🐱 @magickitten.bsky.social ⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
🐈⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator
🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death
✨💛🤍💜🖤✨🩷💜💙✨
Christina Moorehead @allthebooks.bsky.social Program Dir.@ CTCB. Gen. Secretary USBBY. Publisher Liaison @ PublisherSpotlight. Teacher. Book festooned writer. Random Artist. Rescue animal softie. Kidney Donor. Nerdfighter. Mythical Beast. Banana Slug. Kwaj Kid. And yes, this Trekkie has her towel.
barley & birch @barleyandbirch.com Creative art and play explorations for kids and their families. Visit us at https://barleyandbirch.com
#KidsActivities | #KidsArt | #ArtEd | #EduSky | #KidsCrafts | #NatureSky | #OutdoorLearning | #CreativePlay | #KidLit | #DIYKids | #ECE | #EarlyYears
Roswell Stanley @roswellstanley.bsky.social Author | Illustrator | Musician
www.roswellstanley.com
https://linktr.ee/roswellstanley
Laura Watson @laura-jane-watson.bsky.social Canadian #illustrator and surface designer, dog mom and person mom 🐕👧🏻Repped for commissions by Lisa Pomerantz at IllustrationOnline and art licensing by Pink Light Design 💖
Portfolio at http://www.w-illo.com
Looking for new picture book adventures🗺
Gabriella Aldeman @writebetween.bsky.social Spanish translator and PB author. PAULA'S PATCHES (FreeSpiritBooks), SQUAWK OF SPANISH (Charlesbridge), SOMETIMES A DREAM (Versify, 2027). Rep’d by Jennifer Unter
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
Bunny person
#Scbwi
Nature
Foodie
@joycefrankwrite.bsky.social @joycefrankwrite.bsky.social Stories in @SoutheastReview and Microfiction Monday Magazine; SCBWI; 12x12; picture books!!
Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social TRICKY CHOPSTICKS {‘24 @SimonKIDS} 🌟 SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story {‘25 @PenguinKids} 🌟 #SCBWI #12x12PB #PBParty #PBRisingStars #PBStudyBuddy Rep: @AgentHenkin 💜 food +☕+ writing STEAM PBs
@mplswaytogrow.bsky.social @mplswaytogrow.bsky.social 
Sue Lowell Gallion @suegallion.bsky.social Children's author, nf series OUR WORLD with Phaidon Press chosen for Oprah's Favorites 2024! OUR GALAXY 10/24, UNDERWATER WORLD 2023 (SLJ ⭐️), repped by Liza Voges Eden St. Lit 
Yana Popova @yanapopova.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator | Children’s books
🎨www.yanapopova.art
Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social I write books, films and make podcasts.
Happily mediocre
Kellyanne @ellarebee.bsky.social I'm a very good finder, better known as a librarian.
Opinions posted here are mine and mine alone.
Mark @mdm65.bsky.social 
Crista Kathleen McGinley - Illustration @cristam.bsky.social ✏️ Children's Illustrator • WHEN THE SEA LEFT, Tielmour Press • SCBWI Member • Ringling College of Art + Design Alumni • Etsy Shop, CLOVE emporium
✨ cristakathleen.weebly.com
✨ https://www.scbwi.org/members/crista.kathleen.mcginley
Terri Rain @akidead.bsky.social illustrating #kidlit, #editorial, and silly little guys.
https://linktr.ee/akidead
@ravenhowell.bsky.social @ravenhowell.bsky.social 
秋オリズ @ivychow.bsky.social 要不还是试试一些新赛道？
Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social 📚 SHIPWRECK out July'25, Tilbury House Publishers.
✔️ Teacher
✍️ PB & MG writer #kidlit #F #NF
🖍Doodler
🍃 Woodland walker
⛰️ Mountain hiker
🌊 Summer swimmer
🕴Trampoline jumper
🏠 Living in Ireland 🇮🇪
📕 Rep'd by Tracy Marchini
@hollyswain.bsky.social @hollyswain.bsky.social 
Jun Zhang @jun14-zh.bsky.social Was: Journalist | Editor | Content Strategist
Becoming: Art Historian | Researcher | Avant-garde
Always: Music Lover
britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/5553
Imogen Taylor @imogentaylormade.com children’s book author/illustrator • #PBParty finalist • SCBWI member
✨seeking representation✨
imogentaylormade.com/illustration-portfolio/
Mandy @mldavisreads.bsky.social Multilingual children's librarian. Focus on collection development. Hobbies include gardening, backyard chickens and ducks, Orioles baseball, and genealogy. Reviews at https://www.goodreads.com/mldavisreads and storygraph. 
@clueless9.bsky.social @clueless9.bsky.social 
Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social Past Carnegie Medals Judge for NI (2016,2017,2022,2023)& Kids’ Lit Quiz NI heat Co-ord (2006-2019) & Creative Book Blogger at https://goodnighttoread.wordpress.com/ Book Reviewer,Interviewer & Sch Librarian.YLG Nat Comm.Love writing book & nature haikus.
Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. No AI in my art or writing, ever.
Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social
The Stitchwort Curse published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
Steve James @stejdesigns.bsky.social Leeds based freelance illustrator
https://stejdesigns.wixsite.com/mysite
https://www.advocate-art.com/steve-james
Sarah Hammond @sarahhammond.bsky.social Children's author | Creative writing teacher | A Brit abroad | SCBWI-IL network rep |
www.sarahhammond.org
Alia Papageorgiou @eurocentrique.bsky.social Artistic Director writefest.be / Cyber MSc, newspapers , EU diplomacy / Board journalismfund.eu, displaced Melburnian ☕️ #amwriting first book ‘Ducks on the roof’ (c) out in 2025 🦆
https://t.mbjms.com/331727/4080/0?po=6456&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Adriana Janaína Poeta @adrianajanainapoet.bsky.social Adriana Janaína Poeta, CPF.:01233034782/ Adriana Janaína Alves de Oliveira. Escritora, editora, casada com Marcelo Bernardo de Oliveira. Criadora/ fundadora e proprietária do Clube de Leitura dos Poetas.
adrianajanainapoeta01233034782@gmail.com
Olga Komashko @sirenasdream.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator | represented by the Plum Agency | mom of two | SCBWI member
My portfolio:
www.olgakomashko.com
Marjorie McGuire @marjoriemcguire.bsky.social Here for the writing and the books. Physician writer from the Midwest; I write fiction with a biology-sci-fi bent.
https://marjoriemcguire.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/hello-world/
Moz Perkins ⚓️ 🇬🇧 🏴 @mozperkins.bsky.social Cold War Warrior ⚓️ 🏴
Published Author of 8 books.
I share lots of humour.
Family is number one, now and forever.
I volunteer in Stockport with Ex-🇬🇧 HM Armed Forces groups
Jessie Romigh @jessieromigh.bsky.social Children's book writer & illustrator seeking representation. Finding whimsy & humor with a dash of puns. Illustrations are hand-drawn, inked, & painted with watercolor. SCBWI-Austin Chapter. She/Her
www.jessieromigh.com
#kidlit #picturebook #kidlitart
Lo & Co. @loslo.bsky.social Mom, Advocate, Co-Author ✍🏽
Debut children's picture book coming soon!
Manuscript ✅
Representation - Let's connect!
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
🏳️🌈🇸🇪💋✈️⛵️🌊
I do not read DMs here.
Ana Steiner @anasteiner.bsky.social ⭐ Illustrator & Concept Artist
⭐ Commissions open!
⭐ NO AI
⭐ www.anasteiner.com
⭐ Newsletter: anasteiner.substack.com
⭐ Contact - anasteinerart@gmail.com- T Tender Buttons Press @tenderbuttonspress.bsky.social Poetry Press
Claire Hubbard @emseeitch.bsky.social Scottish illustrator, designer and comics creator based in Leeds
She/Her
https://www.emseeitch.com/
Catherine Friess @ Story Snug @storysnug.com Bookblogger: https://storysnug.com
🇮🇪 #scbwi #writementor #writemagic
3rd place: Writing Mag PB Prize '25
Top 100: #CNPKids CB '25
Shortlisted: Searchlight PB Award & #WM Idea Idol '24 / #WMCNA PB '23
https://www.instagram.com/cjfriess_storysnug
Estee Hall @esteehillustrates.bsky.social 🖍️ Illustrator, designer, storyteller.
🎓HarperCollins Author Academy - Alumni 2025
💂🏾♀️London, UK
*Seeking representation*
✐ Portfolio: www.esteehall.com
📧Email: xesteex@ymail.com
🎨Shop: www.thisismi.co.uk
Kelsey Gomez @kelseymgomez.bsky.social 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
𓇼 Writer for ✨🌊 Upper MG-YA ✨🧞♀️
𓇼♡ Disney & my pug
𓇼Neurodivergent
𓇼♡ Languages
⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚Currently querying my Modern Fantasy Ocean book
➜ Dark Tides🌊
⋆.˚ 𓆉 Dylan’s🐳 & Zelda’s🐙 story
𓇼 Instagram: @Kelseymgomez
⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚
𓇼Ticktock: @KelseyMGomez
Ellen Hawkins Studio @ellenhawkins.bsky.social Former VFX artist turned illustrator 👩💻✏️
Based in Colorado 🐻🌲🏔
I am always cold ☃️
🚫 No AI
🚫 No NFT
Portfolio: www.ellenhawkins.com
Insta: www.instagram.com/ellenhawkinsstudio
Marjorie Crosby-Fairall @crosby-fairall.bsky.social Australian/American picture book illustrator and author. SCBWI Australia East Regional Illustrator Coordinator
📚Debut author/illustrator PB ‘Emmie Builds Something New’ (Fall 2025 Red Comet Press)
https://www.crosby-fairall.com
Projjwal @mprojjwal162.bsky.social 🎬Turning children’s books to 3D,2d animated story
📚Helping authors grow beyond the page
✨Short trailer sparks curiosity for your book
See the recent story - https://projjwal.odoo.com/
Jen Lee @jenleewriter.bsky.social Kid Lit Writer
Lisa Jahn-Clough @jahnclough.bsky.social Author, Artist, Academic, Atheist. Loves dogs. Lives by the sea. Part of the #Resistance.
Latest chapterbook: “Kids Of Cattywampus Street”
#Resist #ProDemocracy #ProScience #ProChoice #ProEducation #LGBTQ+ #Art #Kidlit #Booksky #RighttoRead
Laird Fetzer Hamblin @lairdsstorysongs.bsky.social Teacher _ Writer/Songwriter/Poet/Artist _ Biologist
I write and illustrate songs and stories about nature in rhyme and alliteration.
lairdsstorysongs.us
lettersbylaird.bsky.social
#edusky
#nature #songs
#kidlitart #kidlit #kidsongs #childrens
Debbie Palen Illustration @debbiepalen.bsky.social Illustrator of picture books seeking representation. Feminist, animal lover, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Free Spirit Publishing, NWF. ✉dpalen@fmgirl.com portfolio: https://www.debbiepalen.com linktr.ee/dpalen
#KidLitArt #childrensbooks #kidlit
@blancmange-ee.bsky.social @blancmange-ee.bsky.social Publisher at Post Wave Publishing UK
Read, Dream, Discover
Christine Van Zandt @christinevanzandt.bsky.social craft and creativity
Roberto Hikimi Blefari @hellohikimi.bsky.social Freelance illustrator, creating playful, whimsical and poetic illustrations — mostly for editorial and children’s publishing.
www.hikimi.it
Sally M. Kim @sallymkim.bsky.social Literary Agent @AndreaBrownLit
https://querymanager.com/query/sallyabla
Children's Books North Network @cbnnetwork.bsky.social Children’s Books North Network connects and supports published children’s writers, illustrators and publishing professionals living in the North and Scotland.
Co-leads Emma Layfield, Beatrice Cross & Bethany Sparks
www.linktr.ee/childrensbooksnorth
Lele Saa @lelesaa.com (she/her)
Illustrator | Writer | Designer | H(ai)ter
📍Cambridge, UK.
Inspired by joy, curiosity & creativity.
Represented by Sophie Sheumaker at BookEnds Literary Agency.
© Lele Saa 2023-26
www.lelesaa.com
Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com | NH K-8 School Librarian | Reviewer for School Library Journal | YA Novelist @HarperCollins.bsky.social | Choosing books is how we choose and build our culture. | benjaminludwig.com | Against AI |
Elke @theremaybecats.bsky.social Illustrator & Storyteller.
Rep'd by: Caryn Wiseman @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Portfolio: www.theremaybecats.com/links
The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social Independent, opinionated, and stylish: essential multimedia publications for everyone who cares about children's and young adult literature. Visit us at hbook.com.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Jenny @primarylibrarian.bsky.social @primarylibrarian on Instagram
📚SLA Primary School Librarian of the Year & #InformationBookAward judge📚Chiswick Book Festival Children’s Co-Ordinator ➡️BOOK NOW!
📚YLG London & CILIP25
Niki Kiepek @nkiepek.bsky.social 
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Paula Henson @paulahenson.bsky.social Award-winning author of WHO NEEDS A FOREST FIRE #NautilusAward #SkippingStoneAward #IndieExcellenceAward #middlegrade #nonfictionkids #picturebooks #educator #kidlit #12x12 www.paulahenson.com www.terrabellabooks.com
CathyBreisacher @cathybreisacher.bsky.social Children's Book Author, Librarian, STEM Teacher, and Youth Leader. Picture books are my jam! Books with Charlesbridge, Sleeping Bear Press and Reycraft. Soon-to-be announced title! RUCCL mentee & member of SCBWI, 12x12, and Inked Voices.
Julie Scheina @juliescheina.com Children's & YA book editor at Julie Scheina Editorial Services | Former senior editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Coffee & book lover
Dani_B @danib.bsky.social Future of education. She/her. EdD student studying futures thinking in the youth educator workforce.
Yell at the machine, girl
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴