Priscilla Gilman

@priscillag.bsky.social

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Disabled writer 💪🏼 Artist 🖌️ Kidlit devotee 📚 Geek 📡 she/her Rep’d by: ✨Emily Keyes✨ @esckeyes.bsky.social 👉🏻 http://priscillagilman.net 👈🏻

Cover of the picture book A Forest Begins Anew. A small blue bird stands on a jagged tree stump with dark ground all around and fresh green plants growing up.
Oval framed watercolor of a bald monk kneeling at a table and painting the word for rain on paper with green hills around him. Cover of Little Monk Writes Rain.
Author Kirsten Larson holding up her new craft book, TELLING IT TRUE: HOW TO WRITE NONFICTION KIDS (AND TEENS) WANT TO READ. A simple, light blue cover with a stock image of a typewriter over the title.
Cover of _Salmon Run_ by Annie Chen. A watercolor illustration of the life cycle of salmon with green underwater plants swirling around a full grown salmon and it's earlier life stages as they circle a glowing orange egg.
Pink and gray cover of John the Skeleton by Triinu Laan, illustrated by Marja-Liisa Plats, translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen. A skeleton gently waves its hand while red snails crawl all over it.
"Do you want to change Maine election laws to eliminate two days of absentee voting, prohibit requests for absentee ballots by phone or family members, end ongoing absentee voter status for seniors and people with disabilities, ban prepaid postage on absentee ballot return envelopes, limit the number of drop boxes, require voters to show certain photo ID before voting, and make other changes to our elections?"
Cover of the picture book I'm Longer Than You: An Epic Contest of Measurement by Carolyn Fisher. A cartoon blue whale and supersaurus share a red speech bubble with the title in it.
Cover of the picture book Late Today by Jungyoon Huh, illustrated by Myungae Lee, translated by Aerin Park. A black kitten sits under a car in the rain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223924760-late-today?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zdqP0ZT9bw&rank=1
Cover of We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang. Three purple and blue aliens floating against a starry black sky with their flying saucer.
Color photograph of a wooden sign nailed to a tree in the middle of the woods with the word "library" and a right pointing arrow on it.
Cover of _Shipwreck_ created by Deirdre Laide and Carlos Velez Aguilera: a ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Cover of This Year, a Witch by Zoey Abbott. Profile of a determined looking kid in a white witch hat and purple and blue striped shirt. Standing in front of greenish yellow wallpaper with leaf drawings.
The cover of In the World of Whales words by Michelle Cusolito, illustrated by Jessica Lanan. Two adult sperm whales lift a baby to breathe at the surface while a free diver looks on from below.
Colorful cover of Papa's Magical Water Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo and Eliza Kinkz. A boy rides a purple skateboard with a red water jug down a suburban sidewalk, as his father was a lawn in the background.
Yellow cover of Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan. A cartoon little girl dragging a chair past a window through which you can see the front of a big truck.
Cover of Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson shows a volcanic island in brilliant blue and red, with a Norse god figure under the water and lava pouring down the volcano. Two figures stand silhouetted on the shore, arms up, as if hailing someone.
Photograph of fern fiddleheads, with dry leaves around the base and woods in the background.
Orange cover of ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T. Variety of people from past ages chasing after a number zero which is running away.
Large yellow-spotted, gray salamander in open hands. (A spotted salamander)
Cover of GO, DOG. GO! By P.D. Eastman. A cartoon dog driving a yellow car at top speed.
Old paper back cover of THE TOMBS OF ATUAN with a girl in a small boat is a red sale approaching a white city with high turrets and penants flying.
Snowy porch floor with barefoot prints next to a firewood pile.
Tall, twisty stack of library picture books.
Mock ad for Tesla: "Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds/ Tesla/ The Swasticar". Shows image of Elon Musk sticking out of the roof of a Tesla and giving the Nazi salute.
Brightly colored cover of Sid Sharp's graphic novel Bog Myrtle. A girl in a red dress looking over complex wild land to where a magical being peers out from behind a hill.
Photograph of a small grey structure, like a shed, in snowy woods.
Pencil illustration of a sidewalk with a small bird wearing a tie and carrying a briefcase.
Open sketchbook with graphic painting of a tree on the left and a black rabbit and right.
Screenshot of thread of the shared post. Too much to retype, but can be accessed following link.
Graphic from Kidlit4Cease-fire Auction with photo of author William Alexander, offering a 20-page critique and one hour AMA.
Curious George finding the yellow hat.
Picture of author-illustrator Debbie Ohi by a brick wall. She has straight black hair, a big smile, and rainbow glasses.
Messy, hand-drawn diagram for THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN.
Open spread of Curious George. "After a good meal and a good bike George felt very tired." He relaxes in a green armchair smoking pipe said pipe.
Bookstore shelf of middle grade novels. Cover of THE SKELETON FLUTE by Damara Allen face out for picture.
Headshot of the author completely distraught, hands distorting face.
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Selfie of writer. Dark chin length hair, white woman, wearing white hooded fleece with a zipper down the front and dangly earrings.
Cover for ASH'S CABIN by Jen Wang. Young person with backpack, bow, and arrows standing on a wooded lookout over a lake with their dog. Line drawing and watercolor wash.
Cover of COG By Greg Van Eekhout. A brown-skinned, robot boy with a robot dog and another robot of indistinguishable type.
Photograph of white ice over dry leaves and grass with complex, curving lines throughout.
Cover of BETWEEN US AND ABUELA: A FAMILY STORY FROM THE BORDER by Mitali Perkins & Sara Palacios. A little girl knits on a gray couch while her brother draws on the floor. There's a Christmas tree on the right, a cactus and a picture of grandma on the left.
Cover of NATIVITY by Cynthia Rylant. Naïve style painting of three shepherds with crooks, long cloaks, and head coverings, walking over sand dunes followed by a poofy sheep.
Cover of THE BEAR AND THE MOON; Young black and white bear on its back playing with a red balloon.
Pencil drawing of a long-haired cat sitting peacefully in a garden. Vegetation is partly obstracted.
Smiling Brenna and Priscilla! (Two white women with dark hair; brother wears a red sweater, Priscilla a blue down jacket.)
Cover of the picture book BUTT OR FACE, Which shows a furry, striped rump and tail with googly eyes stuck to the top.
Color photograph of red vanity counter with a cracked bar of soap in a white ceramic dish and several large chunks of petrified wood.
Author looking up into blue sky striped with white clouds.
Cover of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Kazuno Kohara. Yellow, black, and blue woodcut-style illustration of a little girl and her three owl assistants in a whimsical library.
Close-up of a frame-filling fire in a woodstove.
Photograph of half-empty produce shelves with beets, broccoli, and fennel haphazardly strewn about and hanging over the edge.
Head and arms of writer looking up into soft light as if casting a spell.
Two white, blonde-haired children in slickers and water-proof gloves cutting apart cod fish heads with large knives.
Picture of a Norwegian man who works in fishing industry next to text:“Mature men eat mature fish A hammer. Strictly speaking, that's all you need to get your hands on some dried fish. 80% dried and rock-hard proteins are easily crushed with a hammer. After that, all you need is a pretty strong set of jaw muscles to enjoy the delicacy. If that sounds too brutal, you need Halvors' men.”
Grim-faced statue of Henrik Ibsen seen it through a bus window.
Stem and leaves of goldenrod with a thorn-shaped brown bug on the stem. Don't mind me hee hee hee, just a thorn hee hee hee, nothing to eat here hee hee hee.
Close-up of author with disheveled, straggly hair and contorted face.
Swinging sideways pose in blue and black striped pants, out of my deck with the canopy of trees above me.