Brick Hut Press ~ Christian @bhchristian.bsky.social A sanctuary for all souls.
Enjoy the complete lives of the saints, sages and awakened ones, read or listen, no login required! brickhutpress.com/begin
thealternative.social @creatinganewworld.bsky.social I created a social network in which 50% of the profits will be given to homeless charities. The social network is www.thealternative.social Please join and invite people to it.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Author/illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, more: https://debbieohi.com/links/ Atmosphere updates: https://debbieohi.com/standard-reader
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY
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Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social Celebrating books for children and teens since 2006.
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Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
thePictureBookProject.com @thepicturebookproject.com Celebrating & Activating The Power of Culturally Sustaining Picture Books #CSPB #PictureBooks Are For Everyone: Other Accounts @linkedliteracies.bsky.social (academic) & Plunge Photography/General @sarahn.bsky.social
https://thepicturebookproject.com/
Yugntruf - Kinder-Loshn Publications @yugntruf.bsky.social Promotes Yiddish by creating opportunities for learning/immersion. Publishes classic works of Yiddish kids lit in bilingual editions. http://kinderloshn.org
https://www.yugntruf.org/
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Pintar-Pintar Editorial @pintarpintar.bsky.social Editorial independiente de literatura infantil y juvenil. Álbum ilustrado, poesía y mediación lectora. Asturias · desde 2005
www.pintar-pintar.com
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
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Erik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social German-Swedish translator since 1995. Occasional keynote speaker. Language nerd. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden back in 2018. That guy who founded Things Translators Never Say on FB. #xl8
Daisy May Johnson @chaletfan.bsky.social Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's literature.
didyoueverstoptothink.com
Sheri Bentley @sheribbooks.bsky.social Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoice-Winner #KidLitVibes-Winner #50PreciousWords-HM #KidlitChuckleChallenge-HM Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon
Jan Mitsuko Cash @jmitsu.bsky.social Japanese-to-English manga and novel translator, editor, etc.
Robin Brett Wechsler @robinbwechsler.bsky.social Children's author, freelance editor/writer. Avid reader, walker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder, ice cream eater, ‘80s music listener. Cat lady.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
Equinox Open Library Initiative @equinoxoli.org Equinox Open Library Initiative is a nonprofit that supports library automation by investing in open source software and providing technology services for libraries. You can learn more about us at https://www.equinoxoli.org/.
Jane Kurtz @writerjane.bsky.social I write essays and children’s books. I follow my curiosity and wonder. I volunteer to create bilingual books for and about Ethiopia. I’ve been a longtime faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Children’s and YA literature
Simone Nespolo @simonenespolo.bsky.social Friuli, Italy.
Award-Winning Writer with International Recognition
Astra inclinant non necessitant
Aurum nostrum non est Aurum vulgi
Laureate na nÓg @laureatenanog.bsky.social Laureate na nÓg is an initiative of the Arts Council. It is managed and delivered on Council’s behalf by Children’s Books Ireland. The eighth Laureate na nÓg is author and illustrator Chris Haughton
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
Just Teacher Things @justteacherthings.bsky.social Children's Literature | Reading & Writing | Teaching & Learning | SFSU & Goddard College grad | readteachwrite.com- J jenniferstoner.bsky.social @jenniferstoner.bsky.social
Joan Marie Galat @jmgalat.bsky.social Author and speaker. 30+ books. Topics include #activism, #astronomy, #darkskies, #nature, #ecology #pollution. #SCBWI Crystal Kite winner #STEM #STEAM www.joangalat.com & moondotmedia.com 
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)
Mike (Michaela) Whatnall @mwhatnall.bsky.social Literary agent at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Lover of tea and irrepressible book enthusiast. (they/them, sal: Mx.) Most active on insta! @michaelawhatnall michaelawhatnall.com
Robin Newman @robinnewmanbooks.bsky.social I write picture books, chapter books, and more! A Sesame Street Kid at heart. Rep'd by Liza Fleissig at Liza Royce Agency. 
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
Bunny person
#Scbwi
Nature
Foodie
EDH @hybridlib.bsky.social hybridlib.net
Digital/analog, paper/plastic librarian-type
Pacific NW Reader @reasearchthefacts.bsky.social I fact check before I post. K12 NBCT teacher-librarian in another life. Apparently not a great speller🙄
Riky Stock @rikystock.bsky.social 
Heather Ahmie @heatherahmie.bsky.social Advocate for intellectual freedom, inclusive & diverse bookshelves, and the power of children's literature to inspire empathy and curiosity. Additional all things cats, coffee, and crafts!
Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social My Son calls me the "Last Boy Scout",
Science based Critical Thinker, Amateur Historian, Love Books,
ACE of Heart (Altruism, Communication, Entertainment) is my philosophy, Managing Information Systems has been my Life,
I served in the USASA #estel
🌠🐻 Margaret Abberley🌻🧩 @berryfields.bsky.social The Bog at Frostbite Falls. Pointing north, measuring up, & changing the world day by day. Exploring patience, patterns, hiccups, & connections. MN, NZ, #BookSky, #bees 🐝, journalistic integrity. #GenX Quantum Realm #WWFRD 🚋 #Proginoskes #MGlit #Dragons
Jared S. Crossley, Ph.D. @crossleyjs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Children's Literature at The Ohio State University - Marion; (Former 4th/5th grade teacher); Proud member of USBBY
naho ogawa illustration @nahoogawa.bsky.social Naho Ogawa
www.naho.com
Tokyo based published illustrator
Work inquiries: hello<at>naho.com
IG: nahoogawa_illustration
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.
Olga Komashko @sirenasdream.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator | represented by the Plum Agency | mom of two | SCBWI member
My portfolio:
www.olgakomashko.com
Laura Alary @lauraalary.bsky.social Writer. Storyteller. Wonderer.
#Kidlit #PictureBooks New in 2026: THE CURIOUS LIFE OF CECILIA PAYNE (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers), AROUND THE CIRCLE (Beaming Books)
www.lauraalary.ca
Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
normacardenas.bsky.social @normacardenas.bsky.social assoc prof of practice | research food, identity, culture, and pedagogy #LasMusas #PBChat #WNDB #RUCCL Mentee #SCBWI #12x12 Ella/She
Essie White @essiewhite.bsky.social
Educator, writer, literary agent, artist and documentary enthusiast. Powered by children, and what matters most to them
Founder and owner- essiewhiteliterary.com
Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: Shihodo Stationery, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. he/him 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social Never genAI.
Kris Conover @krisconover.bsky.social Writes picture books and middle grade novels. Probably talking to dogs and making too many appetizers. She/Her.
KrisConover.com
Represented by Dan Cramer @pageturnerlit.bsky.social
#KidLit #SCBWI
kentausagi @kentausagi.bsky.social 
Ashli @ashli-inthestacks.bsky.social Reference assistant, currently in grad school for LIS. I do DVDs and Friday movies, Library of Things, and 3d printing.
Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social Reader, Recluse, Mother, and Citizen. History, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Maker of voluminous lists of books. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. No AI #SlavaUkraini
Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People @leafjournal.bsky.social Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People. Publishing scholarly articles by children's writers in the academy. View our past issues: https://ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/issue/archive
Find us online: https://linktr.ee/leafjournal
Meagan Smith, PhD @meagan1081.bsky.social Editor. Union leader. Cat lover.
Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social Studying how Jews meet modernity. Children’s lit—>democracy. Labzik, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
Lundy-creative @lundy-creative.bsky.social Link to my debut e-novel: A Brunch Tale payhip.com/NLundyM
Other Links (& FREE POEMS):
www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
www.instagram.com/lundy_nyc/
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Janet Frenck Sheets @janetfrencksheets.bsky.social Alaskan who's learned to thrive --well, survive--at 40 degrees below zero. I play hockey in winter, garden in summer, and read picture books year-round.
USA's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoyusa.bsky.social ✈️ Travel | 🎯 Business | 🎉 Events | 🎥 Movies | 📰 Press | 🏈 Sports
🔗 linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyUSA | x.com/HowToEnjoyUSA
✨ From hidden villages to major cities, discover 2026 joy across 50 states
🌎 For the rest of America/s: @howtoenjoyamerica.bsky.social
Mary Ann Cappiello @macappiello.bsky.social PORTRAITS OF ELEANOR (Holiday House, 2027), narrative YA bio of medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Rep’d by Eve Adler, Red Fox Literary Agency
Reading with Purpose (Teachers College Press, 2024),Text Sets in Action (2021), and more.
GigiMcAllister.bsky.social @gigimcallister.bsky.social K-5 School Librarian, educator of 33 years, occasional blogger at thelatebloomersbookblog.blogspot.com, chairperson Nerdcamp NNE, contributer to Choice Literacy, NBCT, Autism Mom #schoollibrarian #TLSky #EduSky #Futurereadylib
Robin Gibson @robingibson.bsky.social Librarian, reader, birdwatcher, traveller
Gabriel “Joy” Reid @gabrieljoyyy.bsky.social 🌻💛Lvl 26 | BU CFA ’25 | Trans✨💖
🎨Cartoonist | Animator | Educator
🍉 | 🏳️⚧️Trans Kids Belong | BLM ✊🏽
🕵🏼♀️rep’d by Charlotte Wenger
https://linktr.ee/gabrieljoyyy
Ellen Myrick @libraryellen.bsky.social Library advocate, and children’s book enthusiast, cat fancier, history geek, nature lover
AngeReads @angereads.bsky.social Librarian and Book Reviewer. Author of The Readers' Advisory Guide to Teen Literature (ALA Editions).
Deborah Heiligman (she/her) @dheiligman.bsky.social On a social media break to be in my writing head. Please email me if you need to be in touch. Www.DeborahHeiligman.com
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
RebL @reblalliance.bsky.social I lost my invitation.
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
aRT Bleu @art-1999.bsky.social Black New Yorker holding down the left coast--Books 📚Film 🎥TV 📺 Public Radio 📻 Politics 🗳️ News Junkie 📰 Jazz 🎺 Music 🎹 Fitness 🏋🏿♂️
Tammi Truax @mst-rex.bsky.social Teacher, Librarian, Writer, Mother, Citizen. #TLsky
Dragon @dragonsky96.bsky.social She/Her pronouns. Artist and lover of books, nature, fantasy/sci-fi, dragon ball, etc. I mostly lurk and reblog posts that make me happy or that I feel are important (like information on climate change and social justice). 🚫 No GenAI or NFT 🚫
Nakisa Nooraee, Ph.D. @nakisanooraee.bsky.social 🌎 Iranian-born, Dublin-shaped, Germany-based astrophysicist bringing science and mythology to young readers.
⭐B.Sc. & M.Sc. Physics | Ph.D. Astrophysics
Seeking representation
www.nakisanooraee.com
Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social KidLit Author:
RAISAH AND THE BOAT TRIP (2023),
HUMPHREY THE EGG_SPLORER (2023)
THE ANIMAL SOCIETIES SERIES (2023)
12x12 Challenge
Pragmatic Mom @pragmaticmom.bsky.social Hi! I'm Mia Wenjen. I blog at PragmaticMom.com, run nonprofit ReadYourWorld.org, and write children's books (MiaWenjen.com).
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MiaWenjen
Pennsylvania Center for the Book @pacftb.bsky.social Celebrating all things literary in Pennsylvania!
Jennie will one day meet Gritty. One day. @calledthemoon.bsky.social She/they
Librarian & Professor. '20 Alex, '22 Newbery,
'26 GNCRT Outstanding Comics Award - Children
Comics academic & cheerleader.
Co-host of The Newbery Tart http://newberytart.com/podcast/
Art by @lizmytinger
Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: @agenthawk.bsky.social
My PB debut: BINNA’S DALGONA (2025)
tinyurl.com/3m7bpcd3
instagram.com/creativesojung
sojungkimmccarthy.art
sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
C.D. Burr @cdburrwriter.bsky.social My nonfiction narratives resurrect voices from history, including antebellum Tennessee bad boys (profile photo) and their widows. My essays and quotes focus on social justice, compassion, integrity. Follow me on my path to publishing.
Rich in Color @richincolor.bsky.social Rich in Color is dedicated to reading, reviewing & promoting YA books starring or written by BIPOC. 📚
Site: www.richincolor.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richincolor_ya/
StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/richincolor
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 📚🏴
Westwood Creative Artists @westwoodcreative.bsky.social Westwood Creative Artists is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected literary agencies. 🍁
https://wcaltd.com/- H Helen Wang @helenwanglondon.bsky.social UK-based researcher, translator, editor (silk roads, textiles, money, collections, Chinese children’s books). Previously at the British Museum, currently at Zhejiang University, and University of Leeds
Kara LaReau @karalareau.bsky.social #kidlit writer, rara avis, survivor of dysfunction and malady
COMING OCTOBER 20: Licorice, a mg novel retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca with a feline twist. Preorder NOW wherever books are sold! 🙀
https://linktr.ee/karalareau
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers @ebyrbooks.bsky.social Creating conversation & opening children's minds to a larger world since 1995 🌎📖💡
📘 Picture books
📕 Fiction, nonfiction, & YA
📗 Award winners
linktr.ee/eerdmansyoungreaders
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.
Louise Rolland @lrollandmulti.bsky.social Linguist.e | multilingualism & emotion, identity, social justice (esp. mental health, education) | researching multilingually | academic writing | Own views | #wiasn
#OpenToWork
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9814-2685
Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social sociolinguist 🗣💬 (senior lecturer #English language; PhD applied linguistics): #multilingualism | transnational & multilingual identities | discourse | space & place | multilingual #picturebooks -> @multilinglibrary.bsky.social 💙📚
The Multilingual Library @multilinglibrary.bsky.social A library of multilingual #picturebooks! 💙📚
Promoting #languages, #cultures, & #multilingual #literacy in #London schools & beyond: @hmking-linguist.bsky.social & Dr Gonzalo Pérez Andrade
How to Create a Multilingual Library of Picture Books t.ly/V8MZO
Julie Esanu @bookbytes.bsky.social Independent lower school librarian, interdisciplinary curriculum coordinator, kidlit fan, pragmatist, watercolor dabbler
Lyn Miller-Lachmann @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social Author, translator & Lego builder. Winner 2023 LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature for TORCH. Author of MOONWALKING (co-authored with Zetta Elliott) & EYES OPEN, both historical novels in verse. 
International Literacy Association (ILA) @ilatoday.bsky.social ILA is a global advocacy and membership organization dedicated to transforming lives through literacy.