Award-winning author, speaker, language and culture advocate, podcast host.
Repped by Gaby Cabezut,
The Seymour Agency.#bilingual #multicultural
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TK-2nd grade librarian, Writer, Mom, Wife, & Grandma. Neurofibromatosis Advocate, Author of "The Library Kitty” & Owner of Academic Play Books.
lovingthelibrary.org
Children's librarian. Proud Marquette grad. Luv books, facts, my Os and baseball, Maryland, soccer, history, and other stuff...
Author of ENOUGH IS… Tilbury House '23, illus. Nicole Wong | I THINK I THINK A LOT Free Spirit Publishing '23, illus. Josée Bisaillon | Repped by Emily Keyes | website: authorjessicawhipple.com | also poetry | https://linktr.ee/JessicaWhippl17
A group of STEAM children's authors and illustrators sharing sneak peeks of new books, cover reveals, giveaways, and writing tips. www.steamteambooks.com
Reader, writer and kveller of books
Author of Gitty and Kvetch, Where is Poppy?, What Jewish Looks Like and more
Latest: The Keeper of Stories, out on 2/4/25!
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Actor/singer/author who tells stories onstage & on the page. ND. Works/teaches at @thewritingbarn.bsky.social
#Kidlit author: ANIMALS IN SURPRISING SHADES, 2023. Rep: Mara Cobb at Martin Lit.
staylorwrites.com https://linktr.ee/sjohnstontaylor
Children's book-writing, woods-wandering, water-loving magical elf
Sometimes here, sometimes not
MY DADDY IS A COWBOY (Abrams, 2024)
More books to come!
Cuban American author of INTO THE MIGHTY SEA with HarperCollins | Rep’d by Sandra Proudman of Gallt & Zacker
https://www.arleneabundis.com
Award-winning Xicana author, translator, artivist, ally, mother. Out now: ULTRAVIOLET and WHEN WATER FLOWS. Up next: WHEN SUN RISES. Decolonize & Free 🇵🇸
PB author
🦙 ALPACAS MAKE TERRIBLE LIBRARIANS (Out now!)
🦉OWLS MAKE TERRIBLE TEACHERS (Gnome Road, April 2026)
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Craft + Community + Connections = a Thriving Literary Life!
Children's book author and illustrator. 2022 Caldecott medal recipient.
Olympic medalist, Grammy winner, ballerina emeritus, storyteller.
Occasional children's book writer, muffin baker, & troublemaker 📚
Neurodivergent Latinx broad. Chronically ill, perpetually scrappy. she/her
ABOLISH ICE!
https://www.kimbakerbooks.com
Award winning children’s book author. (THE QUEEN OF CHESS / GRACE HOPPER: QUEEN OF COMPUTER CODE / CODE BREAKER, SPY HUNTER / and more. Repped by Liza Fleissig at Liza Royce Agency. www.lauriewallmark.com
The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming.
Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025).
Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le
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Creator of Bird&Squirrel, Agent9, Boxtales (’25) and other children's books. Animation director, writer, illustrator, runner, and coffee lover. Rep’d by Kelly Sonnack | www.jamesburks.com
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Author. Dancer. Educator.
BX in da building!
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A progressive voice for a metropolitan community.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/
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she/ella; Escaped Academic Misfit 🇵🇷🏳️🌈
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Activist for equality w/ tidal forces to rival the moon's🌙
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Lunaleadership.com
Teacher Librarian. Reader. Lover of Trivia, Puzzles and Games. Champion of Books, Authors and Illustrators. She/her. Book Reviewer. Dog Mom.
Children’s writer, poet, translator 🇵🇪🇺🇸2024 Pura Belpré Honor: Benita y las criaturas nocturnas/Benita and the Night Creatures⭐️Vampirita and the Angry Mob ⭐️Run Little Chaski! & more. #LatinxPitch co-founder. #Oklahoma Teaching Artist.
marianallanos.com
Children’s book author and former-yet-forever teacher.
GATHER GRATEFUL * TWINKLE, TWINKLE, WINTER NIGHT * DIRT AND BUGSY series
www.meganlitwinbooks.com
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Picture Book Author
Bookseller (Main Street Books, St. Charles, Missouri)
www.jesstownes.com
📚🌈 Author of 20+ #nf picture books about #art + #artists
Artist, Educator, Public Art Advocate living in #Mexico #ADK #LakeChamplain #kidlit #pb #ArtEd #OutsideArt #SCBWI #STEAM #artbooksforkids #NY21 www.amyguglielmo.com
Author & Illustrator. IN A JAR, OUT OF A JAR, HOPE IN A JAR (25), THE GREAT ESCAPE (26), THE LONE WOLF (27), & more. Rep’d by Laura Rennert, ABLA.
Los Angeles via Hampton U via Houston
Concept Artist: Sinners, Wakanda, TheyClonedTyrone, etc.
www.NIKKOLAS.art
Science is Elemental is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to bringing science to where kids are and supporting teachers. Check out www.scienceiselemental.org
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
Author-Illustrator based in Brooklyn
Poet, Activist and Model. Advocate for gender justice, racial equality, and the environment.
https://amandagormanbooks.com/
Author ✍🏽NIGEL AND THE MOON | POEMHOOD (YA Anthology) | THE LAST STAND | THE GATHERING TABLE ‘25 | MICAH’S RISE |🐅🤙🏽 | Agent: Steven Malk |he/him
I’m also on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, the site formerly known as Twitter, and a blog powered by Blogger! All through one brand called KlicKNet.
She/Her. Teacher, learner, rabble rouser. Part-time zombie slayer. 🏳️🌈 Ally.
Co Author: Fact VS Fiction (2018 ) Developing Digital Detectives (2021). My posts. My rules. 💙
Contact: librarygirl.net
I enjoy pie.
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Boyds Mills positively impacts children by amplifying the voices of storytellers who inspire children to become their best selves.
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🇲🇽 🇺🇸 | Storyteller | Pura Belpré Honoree | CRUZITA AND THE MARIACHEROS (2024) & CHOIR GRRRL (2026) | Music by Miss Ashley Jean streaming now!
An annual, in-person gathering of Latinx children and adult book writers and illustrators. 9/12-9/13 SOHO NYC
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Portland, OR | est. 1971
Speaker, Educator, Changemaker, Writer, Dreamer, and Adventures in Learning podcast host (stories from authors, illustrators, and STEAM creators)
https://adventuresinlearningpodcast.buzzsprout.com and www.drdianeadventures.com
•she/her
•former ECE with sociology background, current homeschool mama and KidLit obsessed book reviewer and content creator
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#kidlit author
Stonewall Award Honoree
MARLEY’S PRIDE (Barefoot Books)
OUR WORLD USA (Barefoot Books)
MADINA'S BIG, FABULOUS, WIN (Disney Hyperion '27)
BELLY GROWLS (Henry Holt '27)
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Mexican Illustrator in Brooklyn! :)
repped by Aliza Hoover at the CAT Agency
insta: @laurasanherr_art
I’m an elementary teacher librarian, avid reader, tea drinker, and co-founder/YA blogger at Rich in Color http://richincolor.com/. I also post on a personal blog readingtl.blogspot.com & Storygraph at crystalreading. (she/her)
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Hi, I’m Julie (she/ella/она), K-4 Spanish teacher; Russian teacher. I illustrate & create resources to teach kids languages, cultures, & perspectives. #ABARTeacher
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🌟Award winning writer & artist
🗣️they/them/elle
🧳Rep: Allie Levick at Writers House
📕GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS 2028 🏳️⚧️
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🧦 Here to steal your left sock
Picture book artist and author. One part of the Fan Brothers. Repped by Kirsten Hall at Catbird Agency.
https://www.thefanbrothers.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.
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
🔸Children’s book author of very Black, very Muslim stories
🔸2-Time Muslim Bookstagram Winner
🔸Honors: Golden Kite, Walter Award, Irma Black
🔸SLA Information Award
🔸A bit political. A lot human.
🔸Rep’d by @Pterlip
🔸 www.JamilahTheWriter.com
Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. MacArthur Fellow. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
ibramxkendi.com
Author of the Frank and Bean series, Dakota Crumb, Joe and Sparky series, Come On In! & more. Hazel the Handful coming Spr25! 🐶
www.jamiemichalakbooks.com
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.
Book-loving, notebook-hoarding educator on a mission to change lives one book & notebook at a time. Bookologist at Get Lit(erate). & KidLit Love. Find me at www.alitlife.com
YA Author | NPR Best Book Winner | Educator
Authorpreneurship Coach at Tanabata Wishes Enterprises
aka The Obento Lady
https://linktr.ee/saraffujimura
"The standard of excellence in children's books" - Forbes
Barefoot Books is an award-winning, independent, women-owned and run, children’s book publisher based in Concord, MA.
Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Books, Stories, Reviews, & Currents for educators focusing on global literature for young people. Housed in the University of Arizona College of Education.
https://wowlit.org
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
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Constantly curious, chai-drinking award-winning children's book author, poet, and aspiring illustrator.
📕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)
K-12 Reading Specialist, PBWriter, reader, mom, SCBWI #12x12PB #InkedVoices mentee www.ClaireBlumenfeld.com
📚Book lover & whatnot📚
BarnesandNoble.com
Dad. Husband. Illustrator and author of books. 2018 Caldecott Medalist.
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/
“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
Barrister and writer; author of SANCTUARY https://www.cintopress.co.uk/sanctuary.html
Children’s book author & poet. Literary rep: Sara Crowe. Booking rep: Sarah DeVore
🌟#kidlit writer (PB/YA) | agent: @the1whowill | by lines @parents | ‘21-‘25 Communications Manager @latinxkidlitbf @lkbfstorytellers
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
For more than 60 years, YALSA has worked to build the capacity of libraries and library staff to engage, serve and empower all teens. 📚
Find us at ala.org/yalsa
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MG Author | HART & SOULS | OLLIE OXLEY AND THE GHOST
Co-Host-Writers With Wrinkles Podcast | Rep'd by @literarylesliez.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/lisaschmid.author
Writer, poet, kidlit, SCBWI, librarian, teacher
MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House).
LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press).
#KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.”
Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social
Www.Authorkellymangan.com
#NoAIArt
Third generation JA; Master Gardener
Priors: Editor in Chief, School Library Journal, Partnerships & Innovation Director, SLJ & LJ
One of two librarians living in Philadelphia with three kids, four cats and many, many books. Now with bonus dog! She/her.
Poet, writer. Work for children & for adults. *The House in the Night* (Caldecott Medal, Minnesota Book Award, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the 21st Century). Hiking shoes.
I write NF books for kids. Newest titles: BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER/THE PAINTER AND THE PRESIDENT/ZERO: THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T. Repped by Caryn Wiseman at ABLA.
Love visiting schools!
Kid lit Author | 📚🖌 Ask Infowoman: A Library Consult |PBChat Mentee |Corgis | NFNerd |Former Storyteller Academy Community Manager | Retired Librarian | https://www.kathyhalsey.com/
Twitter handle: @infowoman1
Kidlit Author Illustrator - BIRTLE early graphic novel series (AMP Kids) THE ONLY GHOST IN SCHOOL & THE ONLY GHOST AT SUMMER CAMP (Penguin Workshop Aug 2025)
www.tarajhannon.com
An independent bookstore based in New York
Teacher librarian, educator and student still yearning to learn! Wife and mum to two boys too! Coffee Lover. Reading Enthusiast. she/her
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
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