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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!

@caitdarfler.com

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picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️‍🌈 Co-Assistant Regional Advisor, SCBWI NY: West/Central PBParty2025 Finalist! www.caitdarfler.com Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 1h

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Fireworks
Matthew Burgess & Catia Chien
@matthewburgessj.bsky.social

WOW! This book packs a punch of summer-days. Come for the onomatopoeias and stay for the gorgeous art. LOVE IT!

(a perfect comp for my own story on submission #editors)

Cover for Fireworks. Blue background with 2 small kids in foreground and explosion of pink and white fireworks across the cover.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 13h

I'm going! Who else is going to be there?

SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 21h

Registration for the SCBWI 2026 New York Conference opens TODAY, October 14 @ 10am PST ! 🎉

⁠View the entire in-person line up on our website here: tinyurl.com/79hkf4ta

(and a special thank you to Merrill Rainey for making our gorgeous conference art www.littlerainey.com)

#scbwiNY26
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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 14h

Wonderful story!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 14h

My pleasure!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 14h

My pleasure. A fun book for sure!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 14h

Yes. Grab it!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 1d

BlueSky #writers #amquerying take notice!

Katie Monson @litagentkatiem.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS WHAT!!! Special BlueSky only submission opportunity!

I will open my QueryManager link Wednesday 10/15 at 9 AM EST and leave it open until Monday 10/20 9 AM EST.

Please make sure to check my MSWL and only submit what I am looking for.

ONE submission per author.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 1d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

A Spoonful of Frogs
Casey Lyall & Vera Brosgol
@caseylyall.bsky.social
@verabrosgol.bsky.social

I love this story and read it a couple of times a year. The unraveling of the witch is so well done within the text and art.

Cover for A Spoonful of Frogs. Shows a witching looking at a frog sitting on the tip of a cooking spoon.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 2d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Arguers
Corinna Luyken
@corinnaluyken.bsky.social

The title and the cover made me pick this up. I was not disappointed. My little enjoyed the ridiculous things they argued about in the story. Grab this one.

Cover for The Arguers. Shows a fancy dressed lady pointing and yelling at a flower that doesn't match the other buds around it.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 3d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Becoming Boba
Joanna Ho & Amber Ren
@joannahowrites.bsky.social
@amberren.bsky.social

Look at that cute Boba! A story with something for kids (and adult) at every level. Learn about milk tea, accepting differences, or just enjoy the art!

Cover for Becoming Boba. Cute colorful, personified milk tea with big eyes and a straw in a village setting.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 4d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

In the World of Whales
Michelle Cusolito & Jessica Lanan
@mcusolito.bsky.social
@jessicalanan.bsky.social

Here were my notes: "Gorgeous. Lyrical and touching. Quiet book about birth of sperm whale and a free diver. Well done."

Cover for In the World of Whales. Shows two whales pushing a baby sperm whale to the surface and a free diver watching from beside them.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 4d

I feel like 80% of my time is spent making food. 🙄

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 5d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Marvelous Now
Angela DiTerlizzi & Lorena Alvarez Gomez

What amazing, vivid, colorful images. I love stories that l focus on mindfulness and grounding.

Cover for The Marvelous Now. small cartoon kid with a sparkly blue creature on it's head. Background filled with flowers and colors.

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SCBWI New York: West/Central Upstate @scbwiwestcentny.bsky.social · 5d

Picture Book Connect: Let's Polish Up Your Manuscript! Bring those first 250 words of your picture book manuscript to share. Feel free to drop by to meet SCBWI picture book writers.
#kidlit #picturebook #scbwi

Register Here:
www.scbwi.org/events/pictu...

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 6d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Patchwork
Matt De La Pena & Corinna Luyken
@corinnaluyken.bsky.social

Here are my notes from this one: "We are a multitude, not defined by any one thing. Lovely lyrical language. Powerful."
Yup.

Cover for Patchwork. Shows a small girl and a patchwork of colors floating from her heart.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 6d

A mark of an awesome PB text is that @dansantat.bsky.social is the illustrator 😜

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Great Santa Stakeout
Betsy Bird & Dan Santat
@fuse8.bsky.social
@dansantat.bsky.social

I should probably wait until Dec to share this, but fun, kid-friendly books don't have a specific "season". My family loved this.

Cover for The Great Santa Stakeout showing kid in a red santa hat looking at a snow globe of santa

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

#kidlit #kidlitart #authors
I need a list of debut #picturebooks out in the past 5 years. Shoot me your favorite titles to grab!

I'm doing an exercise during a writing retreat and want to focus on debut texts.

Thank you in advance!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 8d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

A Little Bit of Everything
Meghana Narayan & Michelle Carlos
@michellecarlos.bsky.social

The art in this is outstanding! Checkout out this gorgeous book!

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 9d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Nellie's Big Splash
Cori Doerrfeld

Look at this adorable little sea turtle! Great story about overcoming fears. As always, the art is *chef's kiss*

Cover for Nellie's Big Splash. shows little sea turtle on a beach with a big wave about to crash down.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 11d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Problem with Problems
Rachel Rooney & Zehra Hicks

Well done. Kid friendly approach to problems - both big and small.

Cover for The Problem with Problems, bright splotches representing problems dot the cover.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 11d

Agreed. I totally cracked up. Makes me want to try an unreliable narrator story.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 12d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

In the Neighborhood
Rocio Bonilla

Read this beauty for the community building, for the tearing down of the assumptions about others. We all need a little neighborhood these days.

Cover for In The Neighborhood. shows a bunch of small houses and a giant flying overhead

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Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social · 13d

It's here! Laken Slate's debut picture book envisioning a whale fall as a haunted house for fish! Illustrated by Bindy James, published by Charlesbridge @seymouragency.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 13d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson & Dan Santat
@unshavedmouse.bsky.social
@dansantat.bsky.social

Get this book. The facts are awesome. Or maybe not. You can't trust the narrator 😉
I was here for all of it.
You'll laugh & so will the kids.

Cover for Don't Trust Fish shows the words in large blue with skeptical looking fish.

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