Longtime book blogger, sometime librarian, and current book seller based in Washington State. Find me at www.shayshortt.com
illustrator & author | PET SHOP RACERS Disney Hyperion, WHOA, PANDA! ‘25, THE BIG BOOK OF TEXAS ‘26 | rep: Timothy Travaglini, Transatlantic Agency
Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Storyteller ✍️ | Golden Retriever dog mom 🐕🐾| nature & hiking enthusiast 🍃⛰️ | creative explorer 🎨 📷 | from the beautiful city of Cape Town 🇿🇦
The planet's largest independent source of informed graphic novel reviews.
Illustrator and educator in Brooklyn. Instructor at SVA’s BFA Illustration department.
https://www.oliverallison.com/
Ukrainian American 🇺🇦🇺🇸📚✍️🎨
Illustrator • Designer • Kidlit Author
🖥️ Illustration & Design https://www.abamber.com
📸 http://Instagram.com/instabamber
🛒 https://abamber.Etsy.com
📍🌁🌉
🗣️Children’s Books, Beach, #StandWithUkraine
Children’s book writer and illustrator. Artist. Teacher.
www.eviewoltilrichner.com
Author/Illustrator
Eliza Spies with Her Big Little Eye: In the Rock Garden 2022
Eliza Spies with Her Big Little Eye: In the Woods 2025
Lover of nature and kindness.
Librarian for 16 years.
Member #SCBWI since 2010
Picture Book Author. Owner of Coyote Kids, a secondhand clothing and bookstore for kids in Albany, CA. It's all about the kids!
Kidlit author-illustrator wondering her way into stories • HOW TO PEE YOUR PANTS: THE RIGHT WAY (Macmillan) • TO CATCH A GHOST (July 1) • rep: Lindsay Auld at Writers House • http://rachelmichellewilson.substack.com • https://linktr.ee/rachelmichellewilso
Blue Peter Book of the Year author. Writes for children and adults, 60+ books translated into 30+ languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
#SCBWI Author - THE PAINTER'S BUTTERFLY and LOOPHOLE (Artemesia Publishing)/Beta reader/@litkidsmagazine.bsky.social founder/House flipper/Bostie & girl mom/#MGpies #YANation
"You are the one you've been waiting for all of your life!"
Kay | MFA | Author's Guild
🏆Award winning -
📖F/SF/Spec/Romance Author
✍️Webcomic & TV Writer
🎮Narrative Designer
📸Gamer, Streamer, Photographer
➡️ kaylynx.com
🚫AI 🚫Politics 🚫Soliciting DMs
🏳️🌈 Safe Space
Pro Oxford Comma
Writer, editor, ghostwriter. 📚Rep’d by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management. I also review books. Authors, feel free to reach out no matter your genre or pub date. I read widely and I don’t require an ARC. she/her.
Artist/Writer/Educator/Dad; Creator of Max Meow kids' graphic novel series from Random House (Book 5 hits Nov 2023!) Art Director of Ranger Rick magazine www.maxmeow.com
Author/Illustrator of THE BIGGEST, HIGHEST WAVE | #SCBWI RA Eastern New York | she/her
I’m @kerrymcquaide on Insta, Threads, Cara & @kerrymcquaide.bsky.social
https://www.kerrymcquaide.com/
✏️ picture book author/illustrator, based in France. scbwi, illoguild member. Rep'ed by Erzsi Deàk @ Hen&ink Literary
📂 Loddelina.com/links
🍋 loddelina.substack.com
artist, teacher & #kidlit illustrator 🎨 neurodivergent 📚grounded by books, fairy lights & tea 🏕 Colorado ☀️ https://www.sadeeschilling.com
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
author / illustrator repped by @casahasegawa.bsky.social. CATNIP MOUSE hits stores 10/7: https://bookshop.org/p/books/catnip-mouse-a-j-smith/22297249?ean=9781525313530&next=t
Weekly graphic novel updates at
www.robsketches.com
Children’s book illustrator | Represented by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Lit Agency | she/her
www.kriseasler.com
kriseaslerart@gmail.com
Illustrator from São Paulo - Brazil (he/him) - 🚫 AI
Seeking representation
Website: gustavorinaldi.net
Instagram: @gus.rinaldi
#illustration #art #kidlitart #fantasyart
Children's book illustrator and author in the UK. Urbansketcher. Creating colourful worlds & characters
🌐 https://nicolaschofield.com
✏️ https://nicolaschofield.com/newsletter/
💌 Hello@nicolaschofield.com
Represented by Sally Kim at ABLA
#kidLitArt
Illustrator/cartoonist/writer. Clients include, Random House, Highlights, Owlkids, KidCanPress, Scholastic, etc.
www.paulajbecker.com
www.instagram.com/paulajbecker
Illustrator📍NYC
Represented by Sean McCarthy
cindysykang.com
Illustrator, author, maker, fairy enthusiast, cat botherer, and more from the PNW! (she/they)
✉️ rowank.illo@gmail.com
🌸 rowankingsbury.com 🌷
ORDER Avery and the Fairy Circle now!
Want just my art? Check my feeds or #art
🎨Children’s book illustrator
✨The Illustration Department & SCBWI member
🔔Available for PBs, board books, and editorial projects
🚀Rep'd by Tracy Marchini Literary
Portfolio: claryillustration.com
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🐌Snailing It! (Sourcebooks, Spring 2027)
Cartoonist, illustrator, designer.
National Cartoonists Society
SCBWI Midsouth.
#seekingrepresentation
BearEdwards.ink
Indie and NYT Bestselling Author & Illustrator of a stack of picture books.
https://www.jessiesima.com/
Kidlit author & illustrator, educator, printmaker. Rockville, MD. MOSSY & TWEED (Holiday House), KITTY & CAT (Candlewick), LITTLE SEASONS (Odd Dot) series. Teaching online and in person. Repped by Laurel Symonds. https://smart.bio/mirkahokkanen
Illustrator/author in the KidLit world.
Seeking rep.
All art © Laurie Brosius
https://lauriebrosius.myportfolio.com/portfolio
•📕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
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
Canadian illustrator with a focus in #kidlit. Earth advocate, tree-hugger, turtle protector, mother of cat, mother of little human.
Website/Portfolio: www.stephaniebuosi.com
🐌 Autistic Author. Artist. Opinion-haver.
🐌 THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS - a weird novel - May 2025, Dutton / Penguin
🐌 I also paint fountain pens
🐌 https://aavacharat.com/link-tree
Children's Book Writer and Illustrator repped by Andrea Morrison of Writers House. SCBWI Carolinas. Please check out my work at triciacandemeres.com and https://www.writershouseart.com/tricia-candemeres/. #12x12pb
We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Author of SPACEMANATEE! (Magination Press), PENNY LU PORCUPINE, and FINNEGAN FOX (Nancy Paulsen Books). 📚
Bestie to @attaboyartie.bsky.social 🐕
Friend to all creatures ❤️🐾
Writer & Visual Storyteller/Inspired by Asian Culture & Universal Truths/Rep’d by @KarlyDizon.bsky.social/ My work at www.maureentai.com
PNW Freelance Dark Fantasy Illustrator. MCDM / 78 Tarot
Portfolio —> brettbullionart.com
Shop —-> brettbullionart.com/shop
He/They. Parent. Doggos. Board games. TTRPGs. Video games. #art #darkart
Screw AI
Author and Illustrator of children’s books
📚🎨 https://www.shirleyngbenitez.com/
—Everyone’s a story.
Misanthropic Vegan Seattle Art Hermit
lordego1.bigcartel.com
Wildlife/geek culture artist.
Traditional media (ink and watercolor, mostly).
Studio at Graphite Arts Center in Edmonds, WA.
She/her
🏳️⚧️PROTECT TRANS KIDS🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/sarahs_crumbs
Teacher-Librarian, 😺📚🏒
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/book-trolley-book-love/9061761/?challengeid=393443
🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
✎ Author • Illustrator • Menace
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ www.menalkhan.com
* Debut PB coming 2027+2028 via Scholastic! *
Local little monster. Living in society. Comics and more fun stuff.
Picture books, mostly —see maralsassouni.com for more. In sunny Socal.
🇦🇲 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Illustrator, educator and artist living in the mountain west. Agent - Lori Steel Steelworks Literary - thornockstudios.com Insta - thornockstudios
🖌Childrens Book Illustrator 🖌 Rep'd by The Bright Agency.
Loves bears, binturongs and all fuzzy animals.
https://www.natasharimmington.com/
Retired elementary teacher who became full time volunteer library teacher in order to get kids more excited about books!
✨- Cartoonist/illustrator based in Montréal
📜- The Witches of Brooklyn series - Taxi Ghost ⭐- Rep by Kelly Sonnack
Kidlit writer, knitter, beginning drummer. Come for the writing and books, stay for the cat, yarn, and travel pix. Opinions are my own. Unless you love them, in which case I'm happy to share. She/Her
www.beckylevine.com
Independent, opinionated, and stylish: essential multimedia publications for everyone who cares about children's and young adult literature. Visit us at hbook.com.
Auteur de BD
https://www.lesdessinateurs.com/article.php?id=1075
Children's book author-illustrator from NC.
Rep'd by Lane Clarke at Ultra Literary
🌐 www.jennbower.com
Kidlit Artist 🎨
amandamorrowart.com
Rep’d by the Bright Agency
Illustrator of over 50+ pb’s & young fiction / Scholastic, Hachette, Puffin, S&S, RH timbudgen36@gmail.com / represented by @plum_agency Instagram - mrtimdraws
Website - timbudgen.com
🇲🇽 |Illustrator / Children’s books | MG Book Covers| Magic,Nature,Fun,Spooky,critters💚
Repped by @fullcirclelit
|www.linktree.com/phonemova
Lorcana✨
Macmillan,Scholastic,HarperCollins,S&S,LBBYR,Disney Books,Penguin Random House🖍️etc
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
THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG (‘25 JLG Selection, Fall #2025debuts)
@SCBWIRockyMtn.bsky.social member
#kidlitartinstructor at cuddlefishacademy.com
#aapi #rosebudauthor
Rep: @annmrose.bsky.social at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social
stanyan.me
Children's book illustrator, author, college instructor, and giant fan of all things picturebook.
www.davidhohn.com
Represented by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table - Library Workers, Educators & Comics Advocates Unite!
https://www.ala.org/gncrt
#libcomix #educomix #comicslibrarianship #readmorecomics #ForOurLibraries
Educator~Librarian~Blogger~Speaker~Writer
Comics news site that exclusively focuses on the print and digital worlds found in comic books, graphic novels, manga and webcomics.
Visit us at http://smashpages.net
School Libraries https://www.tljamesa.com/ #KyLChat #stressdoodle #KyGoPlay School Libraries, also School Libraries.
https://comics-jobs.com is a free job board for comics creators.
Operated by two lovely humans 🇱🇧 🇵🇭 not bots or AI.
Children's book author & illustrator.
Repped by Stephen Barr @ Writers House.
www.TLMcBeth.com
www.linktr.ee/tlmcbeth
Author of nonfiction children's books for Scholastic, Penguin Random House, Candlewick and Macmillan. Margaret and the Moon, The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon, The Fastest Drummer, Two Friends, The Shape of Things, the You Are a Star series, and more.
Editorial Director Random House Graphic, Writer, Reader, Swiftie, Book Recommender, Mom. Opinions mine. Taylor Swift reader available now https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777341/taylor-swift-superstar-by-shana-corey-illustrated-by-chloe-quinn/
An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
Author-Illustrator
Shares: Writing, Illustrations, Comics —Birds, Pets, ART
Home: BC Canada From Ontario
E: nicole@westcoastfloraandfauna.ca
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicole.anne.walker?igsh=OWc0cHMwMDRqM2h4&utm_source=qr
Author to upcoming PB: THE SUBSTI-TOOTH (Lawley Publishing, 2026) #12x12PB #kidlit
I’m an illustrator based in NW Philly working on kid’s books, comics and more// Rep’d by Erica Rand Silverman at Stimola// https://www.steveteareillustration.com
KidLit illustrator from 🇨🇦
Represented by the Bright Agency
https://www.genevievekote.com/
✦ I'm Cat ✦ she/her ✦ 44 ✦ neurodivergent
✦ Portuguese-Canadian Kid Lit Illustrator
✦ Rep'd by The T2 Agency
✦ 📍 in Portugal
✦ Book a Portfolio Review ⤵️
catarinaoliveirastudio.com
✦ instagram.com/catarinaoliveirastudio/
#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlit
Illustrator, Author
#kidlit
No AI 🚫
I make books for kids and cool people
www.annadaviscourt.com
author/illustrator of
MAYBE JUST ASK ME! (Coming in 2025 from Beach Lane)
BEULAH HAS A HUNCH! (Beach Lane 2023)
ANNETTE FEELS FREE (Beach Lane 2022)
#ND #Disabled | She/Her, Rep’d by @fairbanklit |NE
https://linktr.ee/KatieMazeika
www.katiemazeika.com
Year 5/6 teacher and English lead. Children's books and reading mostly, Blake's 7 sometimes. Currently reading: The Lost Dragon of Roar by Jenny McLachlan.
Teacher-Librarian, Book Lover, Presenter. Secretary of Kansas Association of School Librarians. Blog at BiblioBrownlee.weebly.com. Learn more about my work at about.me/amybrownlee.
#KidLit Illustrator / Surface Designer
Obsessed with color & inspired by nature
Represented by James McGowan at BookEnds Literary Agency
bio.site/angelamatteson
Author Illustrator, SAFE CROSSING, Chronicle Books, 2025
Ezra Jack Keats Award for Writer, How to Say Hello to A Worm, Rise x Penguin Workshop
Repped by @bookmarklitereary
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
Mexican Illustrator • KidLit Art • Published by: Charlesbridge, Beaming Books, Richmond, Edelvives. | ✉️ mariadrawss@outlook.com |
Insta: mariadrawssart
✏️Children's author illustrator & jewellery maker
⭐ Rep'd by Emily Talbot at United Agents
🏆 Klaus Flugge Prize Longlist ‘25
📧hello@fawashah.co.uk
🩷 She/Her
www.fawashah.co.uk
🐔 Korean-Canadian Illustrator #KidLit
🐤 WHEN THE AIR SANG out 2025!
🐣 Open for work in publishing
🥚 Repped by @kellydhouse.bsky.social at TLA
Portfolio: https://sunhawhang.com/
PREORDERS: https://www.annickpress.com/Books/W/When-the-Air-Sang
Artist, author/illustrator, SCBWI, Courage to Create, Writers' Loft Hudson, MA, avid gardener, hiker, and fundraiser. Former teacher, librarian, and environmental specialist. Current dog mom! https://jodieapeseche.weebly.com
Newbery & Caldecott Honor & Legacy Award & NBA Finalist • contact Hachette Speakers Bureau for appearance requests • https://linktr.ee/authorgracelin
Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books
Opinions my own
She/Her
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/erika-dipasquale/
Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators is the oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of illustration in The USA.
Learn more! ⤵️
https://linktr.ee/societyofillustrators
Editorial Director of Picturebooks at Knopf BFYR
Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group working with Balzer + Bray, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt BYR, FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, Swoon & Squarefish. She/Her
Editor at Putnam / Penguin Young Readers
comics, books, ice cream
contact at: gina.gagliano@gmail.com
writer. editor at chronicle books. aspiring crossroads demon. that annoying kid who never left her emo phase. opinions are my own. she/her. 💖💜💙
https://www.emilydaluga.com
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum/Scarlett Press (Simon & Schuster) • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨
https://featherflores.com/
she/her • kitty art by Carrie Liao 🐾
🩷💜💙
Childrens-MG comic artist & illustrator. Rep'd by @astound_us
www.dolokecki.com
Ilustradora y comiquera. Autora de "El viaje de Luka".
Eng-Spa 🇦🇷
❌️🤖✨️💩
