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I’m a TX teacher and author of books about engaging young people with reading. Co-founder #nerdybookclub. Founder #bookaday. Regular posts at donalynmiller.substack.com
Bank Street College prepares teachers and school leaders, provides education and support for children from infancy through high school, and conducts research to advance high-quality practice and policy across the field.
New York, NY | bankstreet.edu
Olympic medalist, Grammy winner, ballerina emeritus, storyteller.
Indie and NYT Bestselling Author & Illustrator of a stack of picture books.
https://www.jessiesima.com/
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!
lnk.bio/yesimhotinthis
Promoting & improving library services to children & young people, & supporting those who serve them in TxLA. Sponsors the Texas Bluebonnet Award, Texas 2x2 Reading List, and Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List. https://linktr.ee/CRTxLA
Children's book illustrator/author
NYT Bestselling/Geisel-winning GRATEFUL #kidlit author! (If YOU’RE a l’il weird too, we’re gonna be pals! 😄!) NEWEST 📚: 🦇🐈🐀BAT, CAT & RAT #4: 🍂A GREAT FALL🍂 and #3: ⛱️THE BEACH DAY⛱️; 🐥DUCKIE & SNAPS🐊 #1: WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS; etc.! And MORE 📚 soon! 😄!
PNW author+illustrator | THE DAY WE GOT LOST |
Repp’d: @mollyoneillbooks
faithpraybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/faithpray7
Open 11am-7pm, 7 days a week📚
NYC's largest independent children's bookstore 🌈
Children's book author & illustrator.
Repped by Stephen Barr @ Writers House.
www.TLMcBeth.com
www.linktr.ee/tlmcbeth
Award-winning author of Planting Stories (Pura Belpré Honor, 2020) Phenomenal AOC (Pura Belpré Honor for illustration, 2022), Gato Guapo, A Girl Named Rosita, La Bandera (2026), and more.
✏️ Illustrator | Exploring imagination + literacy + community through visual narratives
✏️ Asst. Professor, Queens College, CUNY
📍NYC | 🌱 Louisiana
📍kristycaldwell.com
Writer, film lover, Italian speaker, & children's news editor at Publishers Weekly (@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social). Words in NYT Mag, the Millions, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Hey Alma, & more. All quips my own. Brooklyn, NY. emmakantor.com
Author/illustrator & designer for screens large & small, and co-founder at Made Up Games.
DreamWorks | Netflix | Supercell | PRH | Walker | HarperCollins | Simon & Schuster and more.
For more, visit tom-booth.com
📕 New York Times Bestselling Author
📚 Author: NAT ENOUGH series
🖋 Syndicated Cartoonist: HALF FULL
🎤 Speaker: mariascrivan.com/author-visits
👀 http://www.mariascrivan.com
author & illustrator
🌈Gaysians, 🔥Flamer, 🐘Little Elliot
Author of kids' books, including numerous picture books + BUDDY AND BEA chapter book series; Balletomane; Socialist heart
rep: Andrea Cascardi, www.transatlanticagency.com
Author website: https://www.jancarr.net/
NY Times bestselling illustrator & author of picture books • HANNAH & SUGAR • MAE’S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL • JOHN’S TURN • WILLOW THE WHITE HOUSE CAT
Indiana stan. Barnard lover. Bones, dinosaurs, maps, witches: nonfiction children's book author. Now reading my first play.
www.gabriellebalkan.com
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
⭐️driven by gratitude⭐️Husband 👫 Dad 👦👧👧👦👦 Teacher 👔 Reader 📚 Runner 🏃 Writer ✏️ Nerd 🤓 VOTE! #NerdyBookClub | views expressed are mine
Author-Illustrator in Los Angeles.
What I love:
Comics | Arts | History | Culture | Competitive badminton
Website: MapleLam.com
Newsletter: maplelam.substack.com
Children’s books & editorial illustrator, professor
#Kidlit Rep’d by Jennifer Laughran at ABLA
Other: Rep’d by i2iart
🎥 Host of Gab ‘n’ Doodle every Thurs on Insta
📘 New book PIGGY BANK SAVES THE DAY
🚫 No AI Art
https://linktr.ee/studiohoffmann
[𝙲𝚛𝚘𝚠-𝚜𝚊𝚞𝚌𝚎-𝚔𝚊𝚑]
📘Graphic Novelist
🥈Natl Book Award finalist
🔴TED speaker
📙NYT Bestseller
🎓BFA RISD + 3x Honorary Doctorates
🙋🏻♂️he/him
𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗, 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝖋𝖔𝖔𝖑
🕸️ Spider in the Well 🐻 The Bear Out There
Children’s Author. Devout Californian.
Rep'd by @jenrofe of ABLA
www.devpetty.com
🇵🇭 🇺🇸 illustrator. GRIEF IS AN ELEPHANT Chronicle, 2023. SMALL THINGS MENDED Rocky Pond Books, 2024. environmentalist. rep: Rebecca Sherman
Editorial Director of Picturebooks at Knopf BFYR
Author. Artist. Avowed woozler of dogs & guinea pigs.
Dad. Husband. Illustrator and author of books. 2018 Caldecott Medalist.
Artist/Author/lover of children’s books/Illustrator of #1 NYT bestseller All Are Welcome
Author ✍🏽NIGEL AND THE MOON | POEMHOOD (YA Anthology) | THE LAST STAND | THE GATHERING TABLE ‘25 | MICAH’S RISE |🐅🤙🏽 | Agent: Steven Malk |he/him
Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Five. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Maker of picture books, comics, early readers and screenprints. Preorder my new book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721979/earl-and-worm-1-the-b
School Librarian. Author of BLUE FLOATS AWAY, THE VERY LAST CASTLE, THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW, CABOOSE | Author/illustrator of JUST ONE FLAKE and JUST ONE WAVE (2025)
Author and illustrator of picture books.
Independent, opinionated, and stylish: essential multimedia publications for everyone who cares about children's and young adult literature. Visit us at hbook.com.
Librarian. NYT Bestselling Author. | LOUDER THAN HUNGER, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, THE GIFT OF STORY, THIS IS A SCHOOL, THIS IS A STORY | Agent: Molly O'Neill
New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Dasher, Red & Lulu, several other picture books, and the graphic novel Hoops.
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.
I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
“My daddy does a podcast. He tries to do it. He has a chair.” Squish, age 6 🥰
podcaster, teacher, librarian, and host of The Children’s Book Podcast
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Poet, Professor, & Children's Book Author. Brooklyn College. Forthcoming: Words With Wings & Magic Things, illust. Doug Salati (Tundra / Penguin Canada, 2025) & Fireworks, illust. Cátia Chien (Harper Collins, 2025). www.matthewjohnburgess.com
Have somehow made it into an HPB starter pack. Please keep expectations rock bottom low.
I’m a children’s book writer and illustrator. Agent Joanna Volpe, New Leaf Literary
Comics friend.
Linktr.ee/lucyknisley
Writer. Illustrator. I make picture books.
children's book author + illustrator
SWEET BABE! A Jewish Grandma Kvells, Coming 2/18/25
TWO DOGS ON A TRIKE, BIG IDEAS FOR LITTLE PHILOSOPHERS, and BIG IDEAS FOR LITTLE ENVIRONMENTALISTS
robinrosenthal.com
https://linktr.ee/robinrosenthal
Senior Literary Agent at Writers House. Good for children’s book and theater recommendations. Let’s share some joy and whimsy here, okay?
Creature & nature lover
Bird nerd 🐦
Wordsmith
#Kidlit Fiction & #STEM PBs:
Latest: Rain & the Reading Horse 🐎
Coming in April: Just One Oak & Puffins!
Horn Book honoree for Fungi Grow 🍄
Obsessed with auroras
Website: https://mariagianferrari.com/
Keeper of sketchbooks. Loser of pens. Creator of Poetry Comics, Incidental Comics, and picture books.
Award-winning Author-Illustrator & Disney Animator on #Zootopia2 #Encanto, WE ARE LION DANCERS, ANZU THE GREAT KAIJU. Rep: Teresa Kietlinski, Bookmark Literary
🎨 www.bensonshum.com
📑 www.bensonshum.com/activities/
🌟 https://linktr.ee/BensonShum
Slow makings and musings of the illustration, sculpture, and storytelling variety.
Children’s Author. Fan of all dogs. Big-time laugher.
Author of I Live In A Tree Trunk✨I Was Born A Baby✨Wondering Around✨Rock That Vote✨ Coming to Bookstores 8.26.25 THE EVERYTHING TRAIL🌲
Represented by Emily van Beek @foliojr
product manager
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
elderly shut-in | IG: @annabankart
Illustrator, educator, curious New Yorker. Rep’d by Wernick & Pratt. Books include:
🥳 PARTY ANIMALS, Disney-Hyperion
🚀 THE DAY THE UNIVERSE EXPLODED MY HEAD, Candlewick
🦘 IF I WERE A KANGAROO, Viking
https://linktr.ee/annaraff
Children's/YA books editrix, Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Opinions my own. she/her
cat lady, lentil fan, kids' bookstore person (she/her)
Makes Funny Books for kids and their grown-ups
Award winning author / illustrator
🇨🇦Whimsical art for kids (& kids at 🧡)
📚Picture books, comics, & joyful storytelling
🎨Studio life + behind the scenes
✏️Agent @mccarthylit
🖤🩶🤍💜
www.clairelordon.com/links
Animator and children's book author-illustrator
🇲🇽 #Kidlit author illustrator
📚OUR DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION - Penguin/Paulsen
Represented by Adriana Dominguez/Aevitas
www.anaranda.com
official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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