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Kidlit411 @kidlit411.bsky.social Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways.
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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social Author illustrator on Vancouver Island. More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean (2023) and Together, a Forest (Henry Holt) coming this Spring!
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Adriana Gutierrez @felizreading.bsky.social Writer~Teacher~ Mama~❤️📚#50PreciousWords Win ‘23 #SpringFlingKidLit Win ‘23 #SunWriteFun Win ‘23 and ‘24 #FallWritingFrenzy Win ‘23 #12x12PB
Ruth Forman @ruthformanpoet.bsky.social Poet and children's book author. Friend of words. Repp'd by Kerry Sparks at LGR.
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Mahtab Rohan 🌙 @writerrohan.bsky.social Desi-Cad SFF Writer + Devourer of Jalebis
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Kristen M. Kareem 🍉 ☮️ @kristenmkareem.bsky.social ✍🏻 Writer 📚@HighlightsFound Scholarship Recipient (‘24) & Highlights Muslim Storyteller ('23) & We Need Kidlit Now Winner (‘24) 🧕🏻🍉 Muslim 👩🏫 Educator 🛶 MN girl 🏃♀️Runner 💗 Wife and Mama to three ✨ Writings here: https://linktr.ee/Sagasofsabr
Emerald Alexandrea @emeraldalexandrea.bsky.social Author of THE MUSIC OF US (HarperCollins Blink, Summer 2026). ♡ Music lover, cat butler, and a believer in happy endings.
Rep: Amy Thrall Flynn of Aevitas Creative Management.
NovelistEmerald on X + emeraldalexandrea on Insta.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social Writer, Humanities Prof, University of Birmingham
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WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLD: HANNAH ARENDT'S LESSONS (2024),
OLD WOMEN: A HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE (COMING 2027)
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Jeremy Fuscaldo @jeremyfuscaldo.bsky.social Comic Artist | Storyboard Artist | Character Design
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Ruqayyah Daud @borahaze91.bsky.social Senior Editor at LBYR & Requited 📚 please don’t pitch me your book here! ❤️
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Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻♀️🎃 @karenyin.bsky.social Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. #AABB
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VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum
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Shirley Ng-Benitez @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social Author and Illustrator of children’s books, and absolutely anti-AI.
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—Everyone’s a story.
Meridth McKean Gimbel @hellomeridth.bsky.social 🌟Award winning writer & artist
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📕GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS 2028 🏳️⚧️
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Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. Nat'l leadership team Authors Against Book Bans
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
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Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social OH FFS, do I have to
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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
Natasha Khan Kazi @natashakhankazi.bsky.social Author & Illustrator of Moon’s Ramadan, Lulu In The Spotlight, Bela and Lily, Sun's Eid ✨ Repd by Tanusri Prasanna
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Highlights Muslim Storyteller Fellow
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Sara O'Leary @saraoleary.bsky.social Writer & reader
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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com Author/Artist * Asian Pacific American Librarians Association PB winner * #Kidlit * 🇭🇰🇨🇦🇺🇸 * she/her * SO: @indianaclimate * sign up for my newsletter at teresarobeson.com to get free art+story * 🚫 DMs or MAGA
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Zainab Khan @zainabzk.bsky.social Children's Author
NOURA'S CRESCENT MOON; March 5, 2024
(Candlewick)
HANA'S HAJJ; 2026 (Candlewick)
Katy Manck, MLS SLMSC @booksyalove.bsky.social Reader, gardener, indep book reviewer- https://BooksYALove.com. All kids need school libraries & librarians! IASL Past-President.
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📕Excited for Eid (LBB, 2024)
📙Friday Fun (LLB, 2024)
📘Aarzu All Around (S&S, 2025)
📗The Camel Library (F&F, 2025)
📕Radiant Ramadan (LBB, 2025)
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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).
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social Senior Agent at Neighborhood Literary. Lambda Award-winning author, sometimes. HOMEGROWN MAGIC out now, WHAT IF…KITTY PRYDE out next
Jillian Heise @heisereads.bsky.social {Hi-Z} | 2026 Caldecott Committee | Elementary Librarian | MLIS | Former 7/8 ELA Teacher | NBCT | #ClassroomBookADay founder | she/her | *views are personal & do not represent my employer
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HarperKids @harperkids.bsky.social We're here to help parents, teachers, and librarians discover great reads for kids, from picture books to middle grade!
Huda F @yesimhotinthis.bsky.social Author/Illustrator of Yes, I'm Hot in This, That Can Be Arranged, Huda F Are You? and National Book Award Finalist for Huda F Cares? | Rep’d by Kathleen Ortiz
Huda F Wants to Know? Out Now!
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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social AASL empowers leaders to transform teaching & learning.
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M.O. (Mindy) Yuksel @moyuksel.bsky.social Author of picture books:
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📙One Wish
📘Ramadan Kareem
📗Sami’s Special Gift
📒The Prince of Stars
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Ali Marie Matthews @alimariematthews.bsky.social kidlit writer 📚 | let’s abolish the whole capitalist industrial form of food production together 👯♀️ | acab no exceptions | 🇵🇸
Moonymade @moonymade.bsky.social 2nd Gen Chinese designer and illustrator making cultural art for our collective liberation. (She/her) 📍Tongva Land
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Reem Faruqi @reemfaruqi.bsky.social Award-Winning Children's Book Author of LAILAH'S LUNCHBOX, UNSETTLED, & more. 
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Rep: Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary
Short stories in HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA (Interlink) & THYME TRAVELLERS (Fernwood)
https://www.sarasolara.com/
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Story Sunbirds @storysunbirds.bsky.social The Story Sunbirds Team: A Kidlit collective of authors and illustrators who stand up for children with all our hearts.
Elizabeth! @kikutowne.bsky.social A monotone cult classic. Creator of Welcome to My Life, City of Ghosts, & Mall Stories (she/her/dude). Worked on Adventure Time & a lot of other stuff. Open for work / ✌️🖤
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🔸Rep’d by @Pterlip
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👻Wolfgang in the Meadow (Clarion)
🐭Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days (Clarion)
✏️Sister Scribbles (Viking)
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Owlkids Books Oct 25 / Groundwood & Annick Press 2027
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