Liveright @liveright.bsky.social Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.com. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years) @hhcp-ucl.bsky.social The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (HHCP) was established in 2017 to extend the long-established work of UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and the Helen Hamlyn Trust in primary and early years education. The HHCP is based at the IOE.
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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social She/Her/Sí/Í; children's author, podcaster (shows.acast.com/storyshaped), dormant medievalist. linktr.ee/sinead.ohart. Rep: Clare Wallace. Art: Úna Woods. Free Palestine.
Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social Est. 2012. The Little Rebels Children's Book Award celebrates UK radical fiction for readers aged 0-12. Run by Letterbox Library & Housmans Bookshop on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers #LittleRebelsAward #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidsBookAward
Dr. Mary Roche @marygtroche.bsky.social Author, bookworm, Ed Consultant. Creator of CT&BT dialogic pedagogy approach. Likes: chns lit, picbooks, action research. Co-founder of NEARI. Views all mine.
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TUS Library Midwest @tuslibrarymidwest.bsky.social Library of Technological University of the Shannon, Midwest. Find us at Moylish, Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), Thurles, Clonmel and Ennis.
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Chris Haughton @chrishaughton.bsky.social Author / illustrator
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
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Todd Finley @toddfinley.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Education at East Carolina University.
Val Brown, EdD @valeriabrownedu.bsky.social 
NubeOcho @nubeocho.bsky.social Editorial infantil comprometida con la igualdad y la diversidad. Libros divertidos para acercarse a emociones y primeras experiencias.
Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social Icelandic actor, children's book author and voice artist. / My new book, “Oops! I Just Ate You.” out in September ‘26 🧟♂️ / Ambassador to Unicef Iceland / He/him.
Will post both in Icelandic and English.
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Juliana Perdomo @julianaperdomo.bsky.social Kidlit Author and Illustrator
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Ezra Jack Keats Honor 2023
MacKids Books @mackidsbooks.bsky.social A lifelong love of reading starts here! 📚🎈
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Nancy Churnin @nchurnin.bsky.social National Jewish Book Award, Sydney Taylor Honor & Notables, South Asia Book Award, Junior Library Guild, starred reviews, Red Fox Literary "No act of kindness...is ever wasted."--Aesop
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Post Wave Publishing @postwavebooks.bsky.social Welcome to Post Wave Children's Books. Publishing with creativity, originality, and passion - for children all over the world.
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Gecko Press @geckopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of internationally award-winning curiously good children's books from around the world.
Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social The original online writing conference JUST for Picture Book Creators, established in 2015. Join us ONLINE on Oct. 3 2026 with Superstar Speakers Derrick Barnes, Deborah Underwood, and Brian Lies! picturebooksummit.com
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The Creative Company @thecreativecompany.bsky.social Since 1932, we have published children’s books of the highest quality. Across four generations of family participation, we remain committed to crafting internationally sought-after picture books & superb nonfiction for readers of all ages.
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Charlesbridge Publishing @charlesbridge.bsky.social We make high-quality children's books that inspire lifelong reading & learning. Discover new voices, visions, & directions in children's books with us
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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social Official book review journal of the American Library Association.
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A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Transgender Author
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We Are Teachers @weareteachers.bsky.social We Are Teachers is a proud community of educators— 3 million strong—who share ideas, resources, and stories of the amazing things happening in classrooms around the country.
Canette Books @canettebooks.bsky.social Children's books for parents who get it 📚
"You're Only Two Once" — celebrating toddler magic
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National Literacy Trust @literacytrust.org.uk We empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life.
Brian Lies @brianlies.bsky.social NYT bestselling children’s book author and illustrator. Caldecott honoree. Visiting author. Gardener, woodworker, fan of “how to” videos and making stuff like pickles, cheese and kimchi. 
Manuel Marsol @manuelmarsol.bsky.social Autor de álbum ilustrado / en Fulgencio Pimentel / otros libros en Sexto Piso, Nórdica o Alma / cubiertas en Anagrama, Babelia ElPaís, Libros del KO, Barrett / fui BlogerDeNiro 🤠⚽️
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instagram: @manuelmarsol
Gráinne O’Brien @grainneobrien.bsky.social Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
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Valinora Troy *Middle Grade Fantasy Author* @valinoratroy.bsky.social MG Fantasy writer; MA in Creative Writing; #WritingCommunity; #Cybil2021 panellist; #kidlit #indie #middlegrade #Fantasy #Trilogy #TheLuckyDiamond out now. Find my books: https://bit.ly/41dGRgs
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Isabella Kung @isabellakung.bsky.social 🖋Author + 🎨illustrator of
🌊 NUNU AND THE SEA
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BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org Championing world literature since 1997. Book Club ; reviews, interviews, podcasts by publishing insider Georgia DC & friends & special events. Instagram @bookblastofficial www.linktr.ee/bookblast Accept no imitations
Durham University Library @dulib.bsky.social 📚 Home to @durham-university.bsky.social Libraries and @ducollections.bsky.social
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Justyn Edwards @justynedwards.bsky.social Author of the GREAT FOX series. Capable of typing and making things up simultaneously.
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Walker Books @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social For the best children's books, look for the bear!
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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social learning, teaching, languaging, queering, parenting, unsettling
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
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Reading the World with Emeka @emekareads.bsky.social "Reading the World" began as a teacher's idea to inspire students (and other readers) to read more diverse texts. What better way to learn about other cultures and peoples than by immersing yourself into their world?
Deidra Purvis @fspacquisitions.bsky.social Acquiring editor for TCM imprints Free Spirit Publishing and Curiosity Unlocked Books. Seeking board books, picture books, SEL for kids and teens, and high interest fiction and nonfiction for ages birth through twelve. I do not respond to DMs. She/her
Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social 🇪🇺 📚 🎹 🏛️
Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social Authoress kazcooke.com.au
New book, Spooky Ladies out Oct 27! Also: Up The Duff; Girl Stuffs 8-12 & 13+; Ada; You’re Doing It Wrong: a History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; ‘It’s The Menopause’. Further palaver as it comes to hand.
Kathryn Rammell @kathrynrammell.bsky.social Author Illustrator of humorous w/ 💖 PBs!
RORY THE REMARKABLE DRAGON out now!
BANDAGE BUDDIES Spring ‘24
Rep’d Christie Megill at The CAT Agency 🐈⬛
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
Delphine Lee @delphineleeillo.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator 🖍️
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Rep’d by Aliza Hoover at The CAT Agency.
🎨: Delphinelee.com
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún @kolatubosun.bsky.social Writer and linguist. Co-editor "Best Literary Translations." Watch "Ebrohimie Road" at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ebrohimieroad
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
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Tia Fisher @tiafisher.bsky.social Writer for children, eater of chocolate, library worker. CROSSING THE LINE (Hot Key Books, 2023) Shadower's Choice Carnegie Medal 2024. Upcoming NOT GOING TO PLAN (2025) and OPERATION DOODLEBUG (2026) #MAWFYP She/her tiafisher.com, repped by Eve White.
Kate Hitchings @katehit.bsky.social Year 4 teacher, love reading, here mainly for the book chat!
Dr Janet Gunning @jangunning.bsky.social British-Kiwi. Full-time carer. Used to work with manuscripts and rare books. Learning to write fiction for children in my spare time. Love my garden. She/her.
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
HarperKids @harperkids.bsky.social We're here to help parents, teachers, and librarians discover great reads for kids, from picture books to middle grade!
Carrie @carrieprimary.bsky.social P5 teacher trying to do the best I can. Outdoors, nurture and reading for pleasure. Mum of 2 through adoption. Can also be found in the water, on a rock, up a hill or with a book.
JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social ✏️Graphic novels makers
📚Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares
Out now from Scholastic UK
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Rep’d by United Agents. Scottish + French. Glasgow
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Laura Fowler-Holden @ljfspinningbooks.bsky.social Writer, school librarian, governor, community volunteer, mum of 2.
Published in 206 Word Stories Horror Anthology by Bag of Bones
Poems published on The Dirigible Balloon, The Great Get Together Poetry Fest, Lavender Lime Literary, Heart Balm lit
Alexander O Smith @aokajiya.bsky.social Writer/Photographer/Translator in Kamakura, Japan
CILIP Scotland @cilipscotland.bsky.social The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland. 
@saltatchicago.bsky.social @saltatchicago.bsky.social 
CEATL @ceatl.bsky.social Conseil européen des associations de traducteurs littéraires / European Council of European Literary Translators' Associations
Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social 🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
EmpathyLabUK @empathylabuk.bsky.social Jump into someone else's story!
Social Enterprise. Read stories, build empathy, make a better world. Founders of #EmpathyDay.
Bali Rai @balirai.bsky.social Writer, author, founding member of King Flame Sound System, reggae fanatic, Liverpool FC fan, from Leicester, GB. Made in (Multicultural) England.
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social Māori, Mum, 'Decent writer'
🇳🇿
I write books and tv. Should get a proper job but I like working in my pj's.
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My YA novel 'Migration' is out now! It's a Storylines Notable book, NZ Booklovers winner, and NZCYA finalist🏆💕
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Writing West Midlands @writingwestmids.bsky.social We support creative writers in the West Midlands region. Follow us for the latest creative writing opportunities, events, courses & workshops for writers. https://linktr.ee/writingwestmids
Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
Jenny Lucander @jennylucander.bsky.social Picture book artist | Helsinki Finland
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist.
#SafeSpace 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
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Fran Moldaschl @franmoldaschl.bsky.social https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl
Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner
Former #archaeology student
Children's book reviewer
Neurodivergent
inquisitivenewt.com
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Judy Campbell-Smith @judycampbellsmith.bsky.social She/her. PB author & Admin at Made for PAX. Baseball for Breakfast, Ice Cream Everywhere & AJ's Neighborhood. #SCBWI #BackMatterBreakDown #amquerying Opinions my own.
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social @soila.bsky.social fangirling over African Science Fiction and Fantasy stories 🪘🧜🏾♀️🛸
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Ritwika Roy @fangirlrika.bsky.social PhDing in Children's Literature; Co-Founder at Assoc for Children's Lit in South Asia (aclisa.in); pretend grown-up; fangirl; likes rainy days with dry laundry; loves spoilers. #kidlitinsouthasia #postcoloniallit
@eastwestlit.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social We are a full-service,boutique literary agency representing children's book authors and illustrators from novelty & PB to YA. Here to share #kidlit GOOD NEWS. 📚eastwestliteraryagency.com
School Library Journal @slj.com School Library Journal is the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens. A source of quality, award-winning journalism and reviews for 70 years, SLJ publishes 5,000+ reviews annually.
Catalyst Press @catalystpress.bsky.social Catalyst Press: Indie publishers of books by African writers and illustrators. Hosts of #ReadingAfrica Week each December. Visit us at www.catalystpress.org
Groundwood Books @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social At Groundwood we believe all children deserve access to good books. Distributed by Jaguar in Canada and PGW in the U.S.
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Greystone Books @greystonebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of naturally great books about science, culture, and nature––for adults and kids.
Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social a non-profit press devoted to contemporary and classic international literature
Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social Mother, scholar, voter. Unsinkable. Expertise in World lit, Japanese lit, children’s lit, translation studies, and general saltiness. Contributor to @roganslist.bsky.social since 2017 🤯
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/
Pushkin Children's Books @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social Pushkin Children’s brings the world’s greatest stories to young readers - to be read and read again. Children's imprint of @PushkinPress
https://linktr.ee/pushkinchildrens- 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
@ogemora.bsky.social @ogemora.bsky.social 
Khushboo Patel @khushboopatel.bsky.social #PB #MG #kidlit
ALL THAT CHANDNI KNOWS (Putnam, 2026)
STOLEN COLORS (Levine Querido, 2026)
MY HOUSE IS A MUDDY RIVER (Putnam, 2027)
Rep: Joyce Sweeney @ Seymour Agency
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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