@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
This Is Done By Humans @thisisdonebyhumans.bsky.social Welcome to Done By Humans, a certification entity where businesses, organizations and individuals can self-certify and get a badge of recognition that their product/service/art is human-made without generative AI.
https://www.thisisdonebyhumans.org/
Susan Schulman Literary Agency @susanschulman.bsky.social Literary Agency
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Helen Mask 🔜SDCC🔜GenCon 🔜oddities expo RI @hemask.bsky.social Art Nouveau Illustrator/ they/them / PDX
Available for freelance work
Email: thehemask@gmail.com
www.helenmask.com
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MaskIllustration
https://www.instagram.com/hemask/
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KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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Cinema Therapy @cinema-therapy.bsky.social A licensed therapist, obsessed with movies. And filmmaker who needs therapy. What could go wrong?
Scoper Monstar @scopermonstar.bsky.social Let me bring your inner Mon⭐️ out! I specialize making fursuit partials in 2006 era emo/scene and 90s nostalgia inspired pieces!
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Bunny Haven Rescue @bunnyhavenrescue.bsky.social Bunny Haven Rescue strives to provide rabbits lasting homes. Through foster-based care, education, and thoughtful adoption, we rehabilitate and rehome rabbits around Long Beach, CA, giving bunnies a safe place to heal and a loving family to call their own.
Rachel @rachelbachman.bsky.social Artist. Librarian. Enthusiast.
Manifesting my dream of becoming a
✨children’s book author✨
#kidlit #kidlitart #librarian
Bradford Literary Agency @bradfordagents.bsky.social We are a boutique agency passionate about forming true partnerships & building long-term relationships with our clients. Visit us at: https://bradfordlit.com
Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com Author/illustrator of humorous stories for kids.
https://briankirbystudio.com
SCBWI Ohio: North | #pbparty Finalist ‘24 & ‘25 | #kidlit booster
Represented by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at
@Bradfordagents.bsky.social
the #BookSky account 💙📚 @booksky.club #BookSky (est. 2023) is bluesky's home for readers and writers with 20+ literary feeds for every genre. ✏️ a project by @clarabelle.xyz
click for ALL the feeds + the FAQ 📕👉🏻 links.booksky.ink
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Rachel Devlin @racheldevlinart.bsky.social Irish Illustrator, designer-maker & eternal optimist 🌞 Obsessed with flowers, colour, history, ghosts, nature + small things 🪲🐞🌿
📍 N. Ireland
Hales @halesholland.bsky.social MICA Alum | Illustrator | Photographer | Former Pastry Chef | Queer 🏳️🌈 | Mudlarker | Letterboxing
haleeholland.com
Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social 🇦🇺🇺🇸Author/illustrator/editor/science communication #OceanDevotion
Antarctica-obsessed, kayak-paddling bird nerd
Ocean Devotion on YouTube:
youtube.com/@HashtagOceanDevotion
LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/icebirdstudio
Love Buns @lovebuns.bsky.social Snowbelle ❄️🥀 rescued 06.20.20 |Jet 🖤 rescued 03.20.23 | Free roam
📍🌞 Central FL, USA | Rescue Advocates #adoptdontshop
"There's no love like bunny love" 🐰💖
🌳 https://linktr.ee/LoveBuns
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Alsares @alsares.bsky.social art + process + life
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/alsaresnolynx
VeganTierList.com @vegantierlist.bsky.social https://vegantierlist.com
🎉 The ultimate vegan tier list and product guide
🌱 Vegan since 2013
Help grow this content at patreon.com/vegantierlist
Pearl Low | 劉寶珠🧋 (they/them) @pearllow.bsky.social They/them/佢🌈 | Director, Creator, Story Artist | Founder: Orange Blossom Studios | Creator of Wheels & Roses | Clients: Sanrio, A24, Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Netflix | 🇨🇳🇯🇲 Pearllow.com | Fourth Wall Management
Gabby Zapata @gabbyzapata.bsky.social Art director . Character Designer 🇲🇽🇨🇴🇺🇸 Former: Disney, DWTV, Netflix, Nick hello@gabbyzapata.com
Gabbyzapata.com
Bex Glendining 🍃 @lgions.bsky.social she/they | award winning uk illustrator and comic artist/colourist
https://www.lgions.com/
Debut graphic novel 'On Starlit Shores' out now ✨
contact - becky.glendining@gmail.com | Rep'd by Paige Terlip.
🚫 AI or NFT
Aiden Thomas 🇵🇸 @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social author of NYT bestsellers “Cemetery Boys”, “Lost in the Never Woods”, “The Sunbearer Trials” and “Celestial Monsters”.
currently writing: “Cemetery Boys 2: Espíritu”
just Some Guy.
https://linktr.ee/aidenschmaiden
Taj McCoy (she/her) @tajmccoy.bsky.social Author, Literary Agent (open to queries), Higher Ed Consultant, Private Chef… tumbleweed.
Author website: https://tajmccoywrites.com
Agency website: https://ldlainc.com
Rep: https://bsky.app/profile/jemiscoe.bsky.social
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
Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social Storyboard Artist (MLP:FIM, Ada Twist, Camp Snoopy) & Children’s Book Illustrator. SPACE CASE: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs out now!
[he/him] Absolutely NO AI.
wardjenkins.com
I share things, too: #wardsmorguefile
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 70+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Latest book: THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES
www.katemessner.com
Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social Hello 👋… my name is Jacob Souva and I’m an illustrator and author of books for kids. I’m rep’d by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
✨ www.twofishillustration.com/links
✏️ https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobsouva
Josh Funk @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social I write picture books for adults to read to children so that children fall in love with reading.
New in 2026: A Celebration of You (3.17); The Dino Door (5.5).
linkin.bio/joshfunkbooks
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social I write NYT-bestselling things. Things that children read.🖖🏻 Books in 2026: THE NEW CAT. More coming. MN-raised, CA-aged. She/her Rep: Jenn Laughran/ABLA Profile art: @cpark.bsky.social Go Blue!
https://www.stephanielucianovic.com
jamison shea 🌛 @wickedjamison.bsky.social award-winning author of I FEED HER TO THE BEAST duology ✨ bio.link/wickedjamison
they/them
Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social Famous writer. Well, maybe not exactly famous. Famous with the right people. Was married to the great Jill. Has a really nice dog.
Kaly Quarles @kalyquarles.bsky.social Illustrator & lettering artist. Kidlit & licensing. Cat mama x 4. She/her.
Rep: Jennifer March Soloway at Starling
Clients: Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, PRH, eeBoo, American Greetings, etc.
📍SLC from Austin, y’all
https://www.kalyquarles.com/links
Kim Johnson @kimjohnson.bsky.social USA Today Bestseller
THIS IS MY AMERICA, INVISIBLE SON, THE COLOR OF A LIE
LA Times Book Award Finalist | NPR Best Book
| 💗💚
Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️⚧️ @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social #1 bestselling author, trans autistic monster boy • out now: YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN • up next: YOU’RE NO BETTER • he/him • andrewjosephwhite.com • mostly crossposting
Keala Kendall @kealakendall.bsky.social ʻŌiwi NYT & USA TODAY Bestselling Author. 📚: HOW FAR I'LL GO, NOBODY GETS LEFT BEHIND, + THAT WHICH FEEDS US (05/5). Cofounder of Pacific Islanders in Publishing. 日本語. Kay-ah-luh.
https://bio.site/kealakendall
Tori Kate @torikateillo.bsky.social canadian kidlit illustrator ✏️ & full time mama
i love joyful, silly and heartwarming characters ✨
rep’d by Analía Cabello @ ABLA @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
portfolio: www.torikateillustration.com
email: torikcole@gmail.com
Nadia Fisher @ariadelsole.bsky.social Author-illustrator•Illustrator•DC•No AI
Preorder AT THE COOKOUT ‘26 (✍🏽🎨)
Latest: I AM THE SPIRIT OF JUSTICE (🎨) ‘25 • LPBD: SIMONE BILES ‘24 (🎨)
Rep’d by @Jemiscoe.bsky.social @starlingliterary.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/Ariadelsole
Nicole Lesperance @niclesperance.bsky.social Author, editor, book monster 🌈
A Spell to Wake the Dead, The Depths, The Wide Starlight, The Nightmare Thief
She/her
nicolelesperance.com
Kate Wheeler @kagwheeler.bsky.social Cartoonist | Funny Gal
Team Trash: A Time Traveler's Guide to Sustainability, out now with Holiday House | Goat Magic: August 2025 with Oni Press
Joanna Ho @joannahowrites.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author • Intl speaker • Educator. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. We Who Produce Pearls. The Silence that Binds Us.
Don Tate @dontate.bsky.social Don Tate is an award-winning author and the illustrator of numerous books for children
Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social They/them. Middle grade kidlit author of MELISSA, GREEN, and other books with LGBQTIAP+ characters and friendship themes. Living that pun lifestyle. ACAB. Free Palestine. Reparations. Housing, food, and medical care for all. Interdependence is life.
Lynnor Bontigao @lbontigao.bsky.social Author-Illustrator:SARI-SARI SUMMERS Illustrator: MILES AHEAD('26), LOOKING FOR GIFTS & TALENTS('27),AT THE END OF THE DAY,KAILANI'S GIFT,SEASHELL KEY Series, THE WORLD'S BEST CLASS PLANT,YOU ARE REVOLUTIONARY,JACK & AGYU https://linktr.ee/lynnorbontigao
Calef Brown @calefbrownart.bsky.social Art, poetry and books
https://linktr.ee/CalefBrown
Breanna Carzoo @breannacarzoo.bsky.social 🖍Author-illustrator 🚒 LOU🚦GREENLIGHT 🏰🌊THE SQUISH Rep:Jen Rofé-ABLA
www.breannacarzoo.com
Justin Colón @justincolonbooks.bsky.social Children's Author. Professional Voice & On-Camera Actor. Backyard Beekeeper. Classical Pianist in training.
Author Website: justincolonbooks.com
Critiques & Consultations: kidlithive.com
Mary Averling @maryaverling.bsky.social Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026)
Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
ann zhao @annzhao.bsky.social indie bestselling author of DEAR WENDY, library worker, and owner of two build-a-bear axolotls. (she/her)
linktr.ee/annzhao_
Cassandra Federman @cassfederman.bsky.social Creator of graphic novels and picture books for kids! ND mom to a PDA kid💪
Rep: @marchsoloway.bsky.social
🔗 https://cassandrafederman.com/links
📚GRAY SQUIRREL LOSES IT! (Random House, 2025)
📚AQUAMANATEE (DC, 2025)
📚STORY SPINNERS (S&S/Aladdin, 2025)
Jon Corby | KidLit Illustrator @joncorbyart.bsky.social Illustrator and Designer at HarperCollins Children’s Books 🍊Syracuse Alum / 🎨Rep’d by Jennifer March Soloway of Starling Literary Agency
🚀 Look out for I NEED SPACE in 2026!
James Burks @jamesburks.bsky.social Creator of Bird&Squirrel, Agent9, Boxtales (’25) and other children's books. Animation director, writer, illustrator, runner, and coffee lover. Rep’d by Kelly Sonnack | www.jamesburks.com
Nancy Castaldo Books @nancycastaldobooks.bsky.social Author and photographer of books for curious minds. 🇺🇸🇮🇹
Rep'd by Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social
Andrea Brown Literary @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/NancyCastaldo
Janee Trasler @janeetrasler.bsky.social Children’s book author/illustrator HarperCollins, Scholastic, S&S, FSG, Holiday House
2020 National Cartoonist Society Award Best in Book Illustration
Represented by Jamie Weiss Chilton
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Adria Karlsson @adriakarlsson.bsky.social They/them
Author/illustrator repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social
#nescbwi, #12x12pb
MY SISTER, DAISY (Capstone, 2021)
www.adriakarlsson.com
kris/KM Fajardo | Preorder LOCAL HEAVENS 💎 @kmfajardo.bsky.social author • LOCAL HEAVENS (Oct 14) • rep’d by @ljrennert.bsky.social • she/her
Pre Order my book! https://kmfajardo.com/local-heavens/
links: https://linktr.ee/kmfajardo
Jenny Alvarado @jennyabooks.bsky.social #kidlit Author-Illustrator & T1D Mom 💙 | PENCIL & ERASER (book 3) Jan 2026 | She/Her | Rep’d by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
www.JennyAbooks.com
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!
Wren @wrenriosart.bsky.social Wren • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 • she/her • afro 🇵🇷 • comic book artist • sappy indie darling • Rep'd by Saritza Hernández
Isabella Kung @isabellakung.bsky.social 🖋Author + 🎨illustrator of
🌊 NUNU AND THE SEA
🐈⬛NO FUZZBALL! & 🐈NO SNOWBALL!
🎨Illustrator of 123 CATS & ABC CATS
👩🏻🏫 Instructor @storyteller_academy
☎️ Rep: @literaticat.bsky.social
🔗 www.IsabellaKung.com
Ishaa Lobo @ishaalobo.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator based in London. 🌲Clients include Penguin, Macmillan, S&S and more. Hope you like my work! 🪻🌸🍃ishaalobo.com
Twitter: ishaaLobo
Instagram: ishaaloboillustration
Kristin Sorra @kristinsorra.bsky.social Illustrator based in NY.
www.kristinsorra.com
Rep by Caryn Wiseman at ABLA
Yusuke Watanabe @artofyusuke.bsky.social *Available for work*
Children’s Book Author/Illustrator
TURTLE ON THE TARMAC(Abrams '27)
Rep’d by @jemiscoe.bsky.social
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art_yusuke/
Portfolio: https://yusukewatanabe.com/
Christina Barragan Forshay @christinabforshay.bsky.social ✏️Mex-American artist from LA area.
📚 Rep’d by @kellysonnack
Raised on Monty Python, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, John Hughes, MTV and AMC.
Bio.site/christinabarraganforshay
Jessica Lynch-Jonely @jlynchjonelyillu.bsky.social Author and Illustrator, SCBWI member, located at the end of the Oregon Trail. Rep'd by Jen Rofé (@jenrofe.bsky.social) at ABLA
www.jlynchjonely.com
Mary Peterson @marypeterson.bsky.social Picture book author/illustrator. Letterpress, printmaking, reader. Rep'd by Jen Rofé, Andrea Brown Literary
marypeterson.com
Cynthia Cliff @cynthiacliff.bsky.social Published Kid-Lit Author & Illustrator
Self taught artist * Silly heart * Tree hugger
www.CynthiaCliff.com
Represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Author/Illustrator Books: Pie for Breakfast * The Wild Garden * A Weekend Trip * A Day at the Museum
Salina Yoon @salinayoon.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator of nearly 200 books. Repped by Andrea Brown Literary Agency (for books) and The Booking Biz (for events/visits). Salinayoon.com
Brittany Cicchese @cicchese-art.bsky.social Kidlit author + illustrator
Catmouse James @catmouse.bsky.social Dog mom 🐶🐶🐶🐶
🇲🇬 illustrator rep’d by Caryn Wiseman at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
https://artofcatmouse.wordpress.com
Joe Hart @joehart1.bsky.social Edgar Award-winning & Wall Street Journal bestselling author. 
Cornelia Li @cornelia-illo.bsky.social Illustrator/story artist/bird lady.
Clients include Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Microsoft, NBA and more.
See my work at linktr.ee/corneliali 
Maisha Oso @maishawrites.bsky.social Mom, Wife, Author | BUSTER THE BULLY (Welbeck ‘21) | BEFORE THE SHIPS (Scholastic ‘24) | MY HAIR IS A BOOK (Harper Collins ‘24) | she/her | rep'd by @Jemiscoe
Maishaoso.com
Alastair Heim @alastairheim.bsky.social #1 NYT Best Selling Author of Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Lost Christmas + many more books. Repped by Kelly Sonnack of The Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
www.alastairheim.com
Porsche Thomas @porschethomas.bsky.social 📕 Author / Writer 💻
📸 @bellaagencyla
🎞️ @cgemtalent
🌱 Imperfectly Plant-based
🙋🏿♀️ Twin-mom ➰August & Berlin➰
📍 Los Angeles
Emily Varga Books @emilyvargabooks.bsky.social ✨Bestselling author
🗡️FOR SHE IS WRATH out now
🌊 THE RIVER SHE BECAME - coming soon
James Serafino @jamesillustrated.bsky.social Children’s author/illustrator
Rep’d by Jem Chambers-Black @ Andrea Brown
A.Y. Chan @aychanwrites.bsky.social Author of The Legendary Mo Seto (Aladdin, Simon & Schuster)
Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social Children’s Author. Devout Californian.
Rep'd by @jenrofe of ABLA
www.devpetty.com
Sylvia Liu @sylvialiu.bsky.social MG author who loves oceans, kraken, cephalopods | new MG: ⚽️ STEALING THE SCORE (World Cup mystery)| next: 🐕 NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK| sci-fi: 🦀 HANA HSU AND THE GHOST CRAB NATION | co-run Kidlit411 | website: enjoyingplanetearth.com
Martha Brockenbrough @marthabee.bsky.social Out this year: FUTURE TENSE: How We Made Artificial Intelligence—and How It Will Change Everything and FRANK AND THE BIG MISTAKE. http://marthabrockenbrough.com
Raul the Third @raulthethird.bsky.social New York Times bestselling Illustrator and 4x Pura Belpre award winner. Creator of the World of Vamos books and the Snips. Published by Harper Alley and Little Brown Ink.
Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social 🌻• NYT Bestselling Illustrator
✨• SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN ✨ MAO MAO’S PERFECTLY IMPERFECT DAY ✨ ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS (link below 💕)
🌷• Rep’d by @jemiscoe.bsky.social
🌼• queries & books: laancham.carrd.co
🥀• NO AI art ❎ NO NFTs ❎ NO stealing
Kris Easler @kriseasler.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator | Represented by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Lit Agency | she/her
www.kriseasler.com
kriseaslerart@gmail.com
Gillian Eilidh O’Mara @lightonthesea.bsky.social Author/illustrator with Walker, Candlewick, Faber, HarperCollins, Penguin, Puffin, Rocky Pond. USA Today Bestseller. Rep Jennifer Laughran @ Andrea Brown Lit. Scottish & Irish and living in England.
Erica Sirotich @ericasirotich.bsky.social Illustrator & author of books for kids. Repped by Jenn Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social of ABLA. Creator of the MAIL DUCK books published by Abrams Appleseed. www.ericasirotich.com
Sophie Escabasse @esofii.bsky.social ✨- Cartoonist/illustrator based in Montréal
📜- The Witches of Brooklyn series - Taxi Ghost ⭐- Rep by Kelly Sonnack
Elke @theremaybecats.bsky.social Illustrator & Storyteller.
Rep'd by: Caryn Wiseman @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Portfolio: www.theremaybecats.com/links
Romina Garber @rominagarber.bsky.social Argentina 🇦🇷 ➡️ Miami ☀️🥵 Bestselling Author 📚 #Lobizona 🌟🌟 #Cazadora 🌟🌟 #ZodiacBooks ♍️⛎ #CastleoftheCursed 🇪🇸🩸#TheLastVampire 🦇 rominagarber.com
Forrest Burdett @hellomrforrest.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator & Aspiring Author
Rep’d by Jen Rofe at ABLA
Forrestburdett.com
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
KarenJameson15.bsky.social @karenjameson15.bsky.social Children’s author of lyrical/STEM picture books - WOODLAND DREAMS & more. WHO NESTS HERE? & THE SECRETS of the JELLIES. Repped by K. Rushall of ABLA.
Jessica Young @happybluejess.bsky.social Children's book writer/educator: picture books, early readers, chapter books, board books.
Kaz Windness she/her @kazwindness.bsky.social •📕Out now: WORM AND BUTTERFLY (S&S)
•📘Out soon!: TIME TRAVELING CHICKENS (S&S)
•📚Check out: “When You Love a Book” (PRH)
Award-Winning Children’s Book Author-Artist, Art Professor, Autistic-ADHD 🌈📚Books, Classes, Social Media: linktr.ee/KazWindness
Yaroslava Apollonova @odnatamyara.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator and mixed-media artist, nature lover | ADHD
Represented by the Bright Agency | odnatamyara.com
Sarah Albee @sarahalbee.bsky.social I write NF books for kids. Newest titles: BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER/THE PAINTER AND THE PRESIDENT/ZERO: THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T. Repped by Caryn Wiseman at ABLA.
Love visiting schools!
Sara Schonfeld @saraschon.bsky.social Editor at HarperCollins - Author with ABLA
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