DC area. Ex-journalist, writer, editor, book blogger, podcaster, author of OFF TO JOIN THE CIRCUS and other books.
Cartoonist, Printmaker + Educator 🔥🔥🔥
PVD, she/they.
FOX RIVER COMICS CAMP! Out 10/6/26!
Pre-order my new children's graphic novel today! foxrivercomicscamp.com
Links: bio.site/cathygjohn
Illustrator, Designer, and tiny visual storyteller 💫 drawing a lot of tiny critters 🌷 also making little paper goods 🐌
https://www.valerie-nelson.com/
https://snailerie.co/
Philly Illustrator | Avid Sketcher | Soft Tofu Stew Lover
Mungo On His Own (2026)
WEBSITE: https://www.juliebenbassat.com/
CONTACT: mail@juliebenbassat.com
Children’s book author + illustrator | 🖋️🎨BILLY AND THE HOLE (Flamingo Books 2026) | 🎨 IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM (Holiday House 2026)
Rep: Christie Megill at The CAT Agency
https://linktr.ee/jessicagoecke
Author-Illustrator:SARI-SARI SUMMERS Illustrator: MILES AHEAD('26), LOOKING FOR GIFTS & TALENTS('27),AT THE END OF THE DAY,KAILANI'S GIFT,SEASHELL KEY Series, THE WORLD'S BEST CLASS PLANT,YOU ARE REVOLUTIONARY,JACK & AGYU https://linktr.ee/lynnorbontigao
Children’s Author | Professor | Rep’d by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at @Bradfordagents.bsky.social | MUSHROOM RAIN | TANGLED TALES OF AN UNDERGROUND MARKET coming Fall 2027 | #SCBWI | she/her
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.
Illustrator and mentor working in kids books, packaging and character design. Let’s work together.
Repped by Lara Perkins at ABLA and Scott Hull Associates.
http://www.linktr.ee/meghuntillo
http://www.meghunt.com
Author/illustrator I AM STUCK Clarion, '23
ROBINSON'S NEW THING Clarion, '25
Public school art educator
Knitter
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
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
🇲🇽 #Kidlit author illustrator
📚OUR DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION - Penguin/Paulsen
Represented by Adriana Dominguez/Aevitas
www.anaranda.com
Illustrator, author, comics maker
Children's book author & illustrator.
Repped by Stephen Barr @ Writers House.
www.TLMcBeth.com
www.linktr.ee/tlmcbeth
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
K-5 Music Educator. Children's Literature Fanatic and Enthusiast. PhD in Education: Reading Assessment & Intervention. Husband. Uncle. Rotarian. Kiwanian. Organist. Local Dolly Parton Imagination Library Director. Adjunct Children's Literature Prof.
Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
💚HAROLD THE ICEBERG IS NOT A SUPER FOOD💚 is now available wherever your favorite books are sold.
Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Also: Whyyyyy
Illustrator | Brooklyn
editorial • books • fashion
Pulitzer Prize nominated artist
faculty at FIT
📚A Cat in Central Park
🎨 https://www.lily-qian.com/
Wannabe film producer currently in book publishing | Once misquoted by The Guardian
Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.transitbooks.org
🎨 Illustrator, art director
📚 Seeking Children's Book Rep
🛠️ Fixing up an old house in the Catskills
👩🏻 She/Her
Portfolio: jenkeenan.com
Studio: charmingstudiony.com
Executive Editor of award-winning and bestselling children’s books at FSG Books for Young Readers (Macmillan). Books, food, fine art, cocktails/mocktails, and Manhattan née Brooklyn. Opinions mine alone.
✿ Art Director @ Macmillan Children's Books
✿ she/her
✿ icon by Veronica Mang
Art Director, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 📚🎨✨
https://www.hollyhooverdesign.com
Children's and YA Book Lovers' Awards. Honoring diverse voices and inclusive stories for kids and teens since 2006.
https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
lover of books, runner of races, publisher at Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books
Writer. Illustrator. I make picture books.
NY Times bestselling illustrator & author of picture books • HANNAH & SUGAR • MAE’S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL • JOHN’S TURN • WILLOW THE WHITE HOUSE CAT
Raised on Kopitiam. I like writing and drawing.
🐕 🎵 🍵 🌈 🇲🇾 🇺🇸
Executive Editor at Random House Studio 📚
Editor at Disney-Hyperion▫️ House Stark; more of an Arya than a Tony ▫️ Opinions my own; pic @JarrettWilliams's ▫️ they/them
https://rachelstark7.wixsite.com/home/books-i-ve-edited
executive editor of ya, mg and picture books at knopf bfyr, writer of songs and picture books (POWER TOOL ALPHABET & BUT I’M A PUMPKIN!), appreciator of odd curiosities
Children's/YA books editrix, Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Opinions my own. she/her
Senior editor at Little, Brown
Not a girl, not yet a dad
Instagram: vleebooks
vivianwmlee.com
Hi I’m Danielle and I get overly invested in fictional things for fun and for a living //Associate Editor @ S&S Children’s // (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Senior Editor at S&S Atheneum by day, purveyor of dad jokes by night, eternal sea hag. My tweets are my own. she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Avatar by the wonderful Tanya J. Scott
http://bit.ly/juliambooks
Senior Editor at Bloomsbury | My dog’s biggest fan | 🇨🇺🇺🇸 | she/her
www.editoralexborbolla.com
Editor-in-chief of Labyrinth Road imprint at Random House Children’s Books. Publishing books that help kids escape where they are while feeling seen for who they are. Obsessed with Batman and gluten-free muffins.
About 📚, 📚+🎨, 🧣 & 🏀
book designer + art direction @ Scholastic Canada
Instagram @yvonnelamdesign
Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Lecturer at Pratt & CCNY (Typography & Criticism). Writer of Fiction (Agent:
@liznealon.bsky.social). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). 523rd Bluesky account. Born ATL. Live NYC. He/Him. www.brianlarossa.com. 💙❤️
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
Lucy Cheung (she/her) and Patrick Gildersleeves (he/him). Illustration/design duo based in Portslade, on the south coast of England. We just like making stuff.
www.yukfun.shop
Author-illustrator. Doodler. Scot.
www.linziehunter.co.uk
Writer of Underwear Dragon kid's books (Random House), the football movie DRAFT DAY and other stuff. My newest books are KITTYBUNKPORT (Viking) and WARM AND FUZZY (Tundra).
www.scottrothmanwriter.com
Author of Wherever I Go and Yoshi’s Big Swim. Coming soon: Sometimes We Pray. Represented by by Charlotte Wenger of Prospect Agency
Award-winning author of books for kids. Educator. Science Communicator. Ocean Evangelist. Preorder JELLYFISH SCIENTIST and IN THE WORLD OF WHALES. Adjunct @SimmonsUniversity MFA. Rep: @jmcgowanbks #SciComm she/her
https://linktr.ee/mcusolito
Librarian, book lover, vintage enthusiast and children's book reviewer for Quill & Quire and Booklist
Books to take your children's eyes on a journey of wonder. Publisher of award winning fiction and non-fiction for children. 📚
#kidlit writer, rara avis, survivor of dysfunction and malady • WITCHYCAKES chapter book series available NOW wherever books are sold! 🌙🧁🐚💙• repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette • she/her
https://linktr.ee/karalareau
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.
Children's book author. NE-SCBWI co-ARA. Director of Whispering Pines Writers’ Retreat. #kidlit #PB #MG #12x12 www.pamvaughanauthor.com
We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Author/Illustrator of Children’s Books. Most recent: THE CAMPING TRIP, MAPLE AND ROSEMARY, CLIMBING THE VOLCANO, THE RIDING LESSON. Coming soon:GOOD MORNING, MORNING!
Author and Illustrator of picture books.
https://direct.me/csneal
Makes Funny Books for kids and their grown-ups
Independent, opinionated, and stylish: essential multimedia publications for everyone who cares about children's and young adult literature. Visit us at hbook.com.
Official book review journal of the American Library Association.
New ALA Member Benefit! Read digital issues of BOOKLIST READER. Visit www.booklistonline.com/reader-issues to get started!
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.
Kidlit Author and Illustrator
Poet 🌞
Ezra Jack Keats Honor 2023
Hello, my name is Pintachan and I am a full-time illustrator living in the north of Spain. Website: pintachan.com
Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
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.
Illustrator . Designer . Author
📍L.A.
http://www.rillaalexander.com
Picture book artist and author. One part of the Fan Brothers. Repped by Kirsten Hall at Catbird Agency.
https://www.thefanbrothers.com
Picture book author and illustrator. One part of The Fan Brothers. Repped by Kirsten Hall, Catbird Agency.
www.thefanbrothers.com
The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children's and young adult books.
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗹𝘆𝗻, 𝗡𝗬 🦁📚✨ We publish wonder-saturated illustrated books from around the world!
https://enchantedlion.com
Children's book author, illustrator, birder, baker.
Recent books: 🪵 Log Life 🍃 City of Leafcutter Ants 🐜 Poo Pile on the Prairie 💩
Coming 2026: Bog Buddies www.amyhevron.art
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
Druscilla Santiago
Illustrator! From Honolulu!
Rep'd by @ksonnack.bsky.social
www.adventurefun.club
2022 Newbery Honor, APALA Award, & Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner. NYT Best Books 2021. PB & MG author. http://linktr.ee/AndreaYWang Rep: @agentemurph.bsky.social emliterary.com
A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
she/her. executive editor @ aladdin/s&s.
Editor @ Atheneum (S&S) | 🌈 bi/pan genderfluid (she/they); neurospicy; 최민지, Korean-Am; plant witch meets punky morbid grandma/cat daddy; opinions my own.
KristieChoi.com
Freelance Editor | Creative Consultant 💫
Formerly Senior Editor at Chronicle Books 📚
✨Helping children’s book writers and illustrators take their work to the next level—and get published!✨
www.naomikirsten.com
Webpage : www.MidnightAtelier.com
Instagram : @ midnight_atelier
Represented by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency.
My debut Picture Book, "My Someone" will be out in March 2026 (RISE x Penguin Workshop).
Puerto Rican Illustrator / Couch Potato / Expert Plant Murderer/
www.erickalugo.com
Repped by @ksonnack.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, designer. LAYLA & THE BOTS, INVENT-A-PET, FRIENDBOTS, BEST BUDDIES (Scholastic, '23), AVA LIN (Candlewick, '24), & more.
Author-Illustrator, Amigurumi Artist, A GIFT FOR NAI NAI (12/5/23) 👧🏻🎁👵🏼, http://instagram.com/AutumnLeaflet, Rep’d by Miranda Paul, https://linktr.ee/AutumnLeaflet
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
Children's book editor; loves books, nature, animals, poetry, walking, and so much more.
Rebecca Davis Editorial Services
🇵🇭 🇺🇸 illustrator. GRIEF IS AN ELEPHANT Chronicle, 2023. SMALL THINGS MENDED Rocky Pond Books, 2024. environmentalist. rep: Rebecca Sherman
Picture book author/illustrator. MORE THAN A TREE (March 2026), A LITTLE LIKE MAGIC, SNAKE'S BIG MISTAKE. ♿ She/her.
linktr.ee/sarahkurpiel
Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books
Opinions my own
She/Her
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/erika-dipasquale/
Author and illustrator of many goofy books.
I won an award and I won’t shut up about it.
I also run a newsletter about my silly life.
Author and illustrator of all the books you like. No, not that one. No, not that one either
NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
🌻 A petite illustrator & book designer & stress baker
🐈 always watched by studio manager mosami
https://linktr.ee/petitemayat/
