I’m a primary school teacher, Year 3. I am Reading Lead which is perfect for me as I’m a huge fan of children’s books. I am also a children’s book blogger at https://bookcraic.blog.
Libraries, heritage, dogs, design, crumble, cats, books, art, architecture in reverse alphabetical order.
Children’s writer and poet. TURKEY HURLY-BURLY due August 2025. Reviewer of children's books from a feminist perspective. Lover of science, words, and the em dash.
Passionate about #EqualityForAll #HumanRights 🏴 Primary Teacher in #Orkney. She/her. Free Palestine! Antifa. All views my own
"A good teacher...so far"
PhD in CS at Te Herenga Waka, focusing on birds. Open source. Linguist and conlanger. eBird and iNat. SustainOSS and CURIOSS. He/him.
See https://burntfen.com for a list of things I did when I should have been doing other things.
Author of the Wishyouwas duology (Bloomsbury Kids) and picture books The Worry Tiger and The Fire Fox (Two Hoots). Mum, keen swimmer, letter writer and biscuit lover 🍪
I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
I am a children’s book art director, and that’s it. That is my entire vibe.
Oh, and pop culture stuff.
Right right right—I’m also drawn to politics like a mosquito to a bug zapper.
Ex KS2 teacher, children’s book blogger and lover of undunked biscuits and Lego. Currently reading all the books. Autistic. She/her.
Blog: https://worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/
Cornerstones is the #1 transatlantic literary consultancy. We are the writer’s friend, and we believe your story matters.
Reader, former Librarian, gardener, crap knitter.
Te Awa Kairangi ke tai. Aotearoa/NZ
She/her
@tutugd@mastodon.nz
@tutugd on Xitter
John Chalmers + Sandra Marrs = Metaphrog
Graphic novels makers
Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares out Aug 2026 from Scholastic UK
Rep’d by United Agents. Scottish + French. Glasgow
#KidsGN📚💬
https://metaphrog.com
Inserting moments of joy in your doomscroll via the mighty artform of the picture book, using examples on our bookshelf in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Profile pic is a Brian Wildsmith owl.) Always check the alt-text.
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
Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2025 (and 2024) 👍
Children’s writer from Bristol. Debut novel The Feathered Book out now, published by @everywithwords.bsky.social
https://www.everythingwithwords.com/authors/charlie-nutbrown/
Dad. Husband. Headteacher. NPQH. Children’s book blogger. Passionate about reading for pleasure. Children’s Book Awards 2025 judge. #Neighbours superfan
Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
Children’s author, gifted education specialist, and mom of five. Hobbies include traveling, tricking kids into thinking for themselves, and reading way past my bedtime. brendamaier.com
We publish the education books everyone’s talking about 📚✨
New books, resources for every age & stage, expert authors and practical ideas for teachers, parents + educators.
SEND • EYFS • CPD • STEM • PRIMARY • SECONDARY • HISTORICAL FICTION • POETRY🌈
I’m an illustrator and fine artist living in Southern Maine. I love children’s book illustration, plein air landscape, artist activism, and community building.
#kidlitart #illustration #fineart #studioartist
Mobile book store in the Sacramento area, bringing people quality reads wherever they are. Special interest in diverse Children’s books. We provide books in multiple languages, telling the stories of many cultures. 📚💙
https://bookshop.org/shop/BookHaus
🌟 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
Children’s Literature Researcher.📚 Mental Health & Oracy advocate. Girlguiding Leader. Sociologist interested in Education Psychology. 🌎 #edusky
Comic Boom - The Comics in Education Podcast. A podcast for anyone interested in the role comics can play in education, each episode host, Lucy Starbuck Braidley interviews an educator, a librarian, an academic or a creator of comics. www.comicboom.co.uk
Teacher, book fanatic, reviewer and blogger
Publisher & distributor of great children's books.
Please email enquiries@scholastic.co.uk with any queries.
Headteacher, picturebook addict. Sometimes a bit ranty. Passionate about the best job in the world. #PicturebookPage
All views are my own
Sharing those wonderful bits of extra story and art that is hidden away #UnderTheDustJacket of hardback picturebooks and books.
👨🏫 Primary Deputy Head Teacher in Burton
📚 Children’s book blogger.
🏡 Live in Birmingham (proud Brummie)
Check out my blog at tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com
Sharing and celebrating the endpapers of children’s literature.
Picture book Author/Illustrator from Minnesota! Take a look at my portfolio katharinegails.art tell me what you think!!
Children’s writer *debut Feb ‘23 with #owletpress*. Ex journo. Mum of girls. x2 #WMCNA shortlisted. Agent: Neil Dunnicliffe @springliterary
In June 2025, Bloomsbury will publish The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. An editorial process I developed over my many years as an editor, author, university lecturer and mentor.
Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s
Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
mrjeffhowell.substack.com
Kirikiriroa. Gully adjacent. Airbnb valet. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Political opinionator.
My other car is a canal boat.
Author, illustrator, picture book maker
https://jasonchapman.co.uk/
Shop: https://jasonchapman.bigcartel.com/
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Author, writer, journalist, founder and CEO of book gifting charity Kiwi Christmas Books, former TV news and current affairs reporter, lover of trees. 🌳
Author & Illustrator of Moon’s Ramadan, Lulu In The Spotlight, Bela and Lily, Sun's Eid ✨ Repd by Tanusri Prasanna
she/her/hers
www.natashakhankazi.com
Highlights Muslim Storyteller Fellow
Based in LA
Just a GP (primary care physician) in East London, UK with a few other roles.
Views, mine only.
Works @fireflypress.bsky.social & @paperboundmag.bsky.social & also runs the RCT writing squad 📚🏴
We provide books/resources to support the curriculum, information literacy and reading for pleasure to all settings in Falkirk Council.
Libraries/Literacy/Reading for Pleasure/Inclusion
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/fa/LearningResourceService/
We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Primary Ed | Children's books | Safe & legal routes | Rock Choir | She/her 🏴 🇦🇺 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇻🇳 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🐾
YLG London is a CILIP volunteer-led community. Notification of events & activities will be posted here. Our communications are not CILIP policy.
Website: https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201316&id=687661
Children’s comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
Author of SPACEMANATEE! (Magination Press), PENNY LU PORCUPINE, and FINNEGAN FOX (Nancy Paulsen Books). 📚
Bestie to @attaboyartie.bsky.social 🐕
Friend to all creatures ❤️🐾
The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
Carnegie shortlisted YA author (Walker Books). Probably in my garden right now.
Writes books; likes books; likes country music; likes Transformers and Real Housewives; likes a lot of semi-colons. Still hanging out in dark bars (in my mind). ND. She/her. Pretty marvellous.
https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/contributors/aoife-walsh/
Writer of poetry/fiction for children/adults | Fiction: Times/CH LL | Poems: Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, The Toy | SHINE, streetcake, Audi Locus | Pushcart nom '26 | he/him
Publicity Executive - Nosy Crow. Book enthusiast, dog lover and Tunnock’s Teacake super fan (she/her)
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
Vampire children's author, lover of tea and DnD! ⚔️ 🦇 RULES FOR VAMPIRES 🦇 and 🍄 MINISTRY OF MISCHIEF 🍄 out now with Simon & Schuster! https://linktr.ee/foulkeswrites
Author of UP ABOVE THE CITY and THE LIGHTNING CATCHER, science editor, CILIP Carnegie 2022 nominee, Northern Writers' Award-winner.
Agent: Abi Fellows, DHH Literary Agency
(Weze is pronounced Way-Zay)
clareweze.com
linktr.ee/ClareWeze
✦ Children's book illustrator & Designer for animation 🎨
✦ she/her
✦ Open for new projects:
gretahummingbird.com
Kidlit Author, FREE TO BE FABULOUS, ROCK 'N' ROLL BABY
Book reviews of picture books, chapter books, MG, YA and non-fiction.
Delighted to take part in blog tours and spread the word about great books for children and young adults!
Find our reviews and more at mybookcorner.co.uk
“ree”
👩🏼💻ASTRID THE ASTRONAUT & SPACE FOR SAFFRON (2026), Aladdin/S&S. Rep: Carrie Pestritto @ldlainc.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally
📚MG/YA Reader
🦻🏻Audiologist
🤟🏻ASL Student
poet. nerd. performer. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
📚 We publish award-winning children’s books and have been for over 50 years in the heart of Sherwood Forest!
✨ Our aim is to inspire a love of reading in all children; our books entertain and encourage learning!
Find out more at www.awardpublications.co.uk
Publicity Manager @NosyCrow
Probably snuggled up somewhere with a cat on my lap and a book in hand...
Rebel booksellers, UK based social enterprise founded to sell children’s books so our profits can fund children’s libraries. #changebookdeserts #activists 🫶🏾🏳️🌈📚 p.s seeking investment https://tobebooks.co.uk/
EST. 2024 by award-winning specialist Children’s bookseller, Nicci.
🔝STAPLE ☕️, Reading Street, Broadstairs, Kent 🇬🇧
www.happyreading.uk
Toitū te Tiriti, he Tangata Tiriti ahau. He Aroreretini hoki. Historian and general nerd of the Irish Diaspora. Lives with a cat called Zuko, ex-stray; he's still a little wary of humans. Very wise.
She/Her Award Winning Author Illustrator
Debut Comic Book SUPANOVA out NOW 👩🏾🔬🧪
Featured in: Hey You!, Happy Here, Daddy Do My Hair: Beth's Twists, Rep'd by Darley Anderson
Linktr.ee/heya.chante
Heychante.co.uk
Non-fiction editor/writer 📚✍🏾 All I ever had were Redemption Songs.
Lecturer at Bath Spa Uni and sometimes Uni of Lincoln (I like train travel), freelance editor and copywriter, author of books about fame-hungry unicorns and exploding toilets, and now PhD researcher into the intersection of AI, comedy and literature. Busy
Reader, Writer, #KidLit, 12x12,
📕METIS LIKE ME Tundra Books
📗LIGHTS AT NIGHT Tundra
📙MINI GOLF FUN Random House 2026
📘Candlewick 2027 TBA
📕Kids Can Press 2027 TBA
Rep’d by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency
Children's writer and doodler ✍️ Graphic designer 🍏 School librarian 📚 Bath, UK 🏡 Rep'd by Millie at RCW Literary
We are KidLit Collective, a collection of creative kidlit authors and illustrators supporting each other since our 2020 debuts and beyond. Art by @nielanderamy
Illustrator and printmaker
Children’s Bookseller
London, UK
sarahlodge.com
Writer and sales enthusiast (publishing). Loves picture books! She / her. Repped by Alice Williams Literary
www.suzysenior.com
Cluster leader and area children’s support. Obsessed with animals, dinosaurs and nature 🌱
⛅️ Wellbeing/Safeguarding at an FE college
🌛 Writer
📚 2025 Runaways/26 Outlaws Bloomsbury contemporary MG
✒️ Lydia Silver, The Soho Agency
📝 Freelance mentor/editor
🏫 Yr 5/6/7 Author visits
https://linktr.ee/elnorry_writer
www.elnorry.com
https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/
www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk
“playful, zingy and warm”.
Carnegie Prize nominee.Whitley Bay via Scunny.All sorts of writing for all sorts of ages.
@robwaltonwriter on other places.
Children's author.
Alpha faffer.
Kay Barnham, if you squint a bit.
Fabulous agent: Claire Wilson at RCW.
⭐️ Children's illustrator & author
⭐️ Part time shield maiden 🛡⚔️
⭐️ Rep'd by Emily Talbot at United Agents
⭐️ Happy Together OUT 4TH FEBRUARY!
⭐️ www.chloeillustrates.co.uk
she/her #kidlitUK
Children's illustrator & author of the GRIM FALLS ACADEMY and BAD UNITED series. Just illustrator of 100+ more!
Picture book author rep’d by Clare Wallace at Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency
Children, Young Adult, and Adult Writers’ and Illustrators’ Conference, is for writers and illustrators of all ages, all genres.
CYAConference.com
Senior Publicity Manager at Nosy Crow (views my own). General lover of books, cats, tea and Gilmore Girls.
Retired teacher, avid reader, aspiring children’s writer, reviewer for Just Imagine, wearer of funky jewellery, leapling 🐸, knitter and lover of 80s music.
#Kidlit author #PB MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS '25 with Barefoot Books
#writementor #12X12 #TheGEAcademy #SCBWI
🇬🇧🇵🇰🇸🇬 🤲🏼
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
Librarian, book lover, vintage enthusiast and children's book reviewer for Quill & Quire and Booklist
🌈 Creative Development Director at Barefoot Books 👣
📍Arby's on McKnight Road
Author of INKBOUND, publishing January 2025 with HarperCollins. Represented by Hannah Sheppard at HS-LA
Author, illustrator, comics & that.
Creator of the Kitty Quest graphic novel series published by Penguin in US & Simon & Schuster UK.
Illustrator, designer, arts practitioner www.joanna-scott.com
Wiltshire girl. MG author of folksy horrors THE WITCHSTONE GHOSTS and THE SCREAM OF THE WHISTLE with Chicken House. Repped by Lucy Irvine, DA. Storyteller/Workshop Person. Longlisted for Branford Boase. Messy ND overthinker, big fan of tea and magic.
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
Independent children’s bookstore sharing the reading joy with you!
www.bookwagon.co.uk
Ciarán Morrison & Mick O’Hara - Puppet wranglers🙌 Zig And Zag | Podge & Rodge
Screenwriters🖊 Danger Mouse | 101 Dalmatian Street | Open Season - Call Of Nature | Oddbods
https://www.patreon.com/ZigAndZagFanClub
https://linktr.ee/DoubleZCreative
ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
