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Camille Whitcher

@camillew.bsky.social

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Illustrator/author; csacbi👩🏻‍🎓, BESEA 日🇯🇵英🇬🇧ミックス🌟 she/her 🚫No AI/NFT🙅🏻‍♀️ #UKKidLit #kidlitart Rep'd by @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social of ASH Literary Agency www.camillewhitcher.co.uk instagram.com/milly_of_bunston

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 5

Forgot to post my #kidlitartpostcard here😅
Happy first Thursday of the month! 🤗

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

A little girl sits on a doorstep doing up her shoelaces as a brown dachshund approaches with some bunch of tulips in his mouth to offer her.

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Aug 28

Agent sibling... like that term😆. And thank you🥹

two women dancing in front of a wall that says yay

ALT: two women dancing in front of a wall that says yay

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you for welcoming me🤗🎊🥳

Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you😊

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Aug 21

thank you🤗

Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hey all! I have an announcement 😬...
Proud to say I'm now represented by agent Paula Weiman @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social of ASH Literary Agency🥳🙌🏼🎊

And now I need to get back to work. Thank you for reading😅

ashliterary.com#camillewhitc...

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jul 20

My longlisted entry for the Folio Book Illustration Award.
Researched quite a few things that gross me out, namely eye injuries and insects😅. The spider is a jorō-gumo. V. pretty V. creepy😬.
Graphite drawing w/ digital colouring using Affinity Photo😊

#bookillustration #rapunzel #foliobia

An illustration of tangled thorns and insects in the evening blue light. A closer look reveals a scratched up hand reaching out and a partially hidden face with the eye scratched and blinded.

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jul 16

a thank you card with a cat holding hearts

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jul 16

I got longlisted for the @foliosociety.bsky.social Book Illustration Award! 🥳

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #foliobia

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jul 8

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm Camille, a UK based #kidlit illustrator/auther. Here's a few of my illos.
You can find more here...
www.camillewhitcher.co.uk ☺️
and here...
www.instagram.com/milly_of_bunston
🌻
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jul 7

Apparently 23 days since I last posted😭.
So here's me continuing to share this year's calendar illos🥹. This is April😁.

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

A brown haired girl walks her corgi in the rain. Both are wearing yellow raincoats. The girl also wears red boots and carries a light blue umbrella.

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 13

Another illustration post from this year's calendar... here's March😁

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

A girl with red rimmed glasses and her large white fluffy dog poke their heads out of the rear passenger window of a big yellow car... with tongues out in the wind.

Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 8

Illustration for February from my calendar this year😁

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
#aquarium

View in an aquarium. A woman carrying a baby, the baby offers her dummy to a large fish. A girl stands palms against the aquarium glass, showing her toy bunny to a ray.

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you😊

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · Jun 6

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 5

🤣

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Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social · Jun 5

Can I reshare my past Korean folktale #KidLitArtPostcard about Resistance 👇🐯🐶

Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard!

Once upon a time in Korea, there was a tiny sickly stray puppy. A scary tiger spotted the puppy & thought she’ll make an easy snack. But the unexpectedly feisty puppy kept running in & out of rabbit holes in the ground, making fun of the tiger. (1/?)

A tiny but feisty puppy is coming out of a scary tiger’s a-hole, killing him with intestinal & anal rupture

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 5

Forgot to post my #kidlitartpostcard here😅
Happy first Thursday of the month! 🤗

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 4

*spam😑

Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Jun 4

I'm not good at social media🙃. Haven't posted here in 5 months😑. So now... I'm gonna scan with some pics from my 2025 calendar (so far!)😅.
Here is January😁

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration

A girl surrounded by cats on a pink couch in a pink room reading. It's dark, gloomy, and rainy outside.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · Mar 9

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Jan 18

This is a pinnable post for the #KidLitMegaFeed, a collab (multiple curated #KidLit lists). Admins: @boringstorybook.com @charlenedraws.bsky.social @debbieohi.com. READ THIS re: how to be added, how to post.

Pls:
📌Save/pin the feed if you enjoy
🔁Repost to share

bsky.app/profile/debb...

Illustration of open book with text "Kid Lit Mega Feed" on its pages. Beside the book are two QR codes, one going to the feed and the other going to more info and how to be added. Link to the feed itself is shown below the book.

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Camille Whitcher @camillew.bsky.social · Feb 11

Congrats! 🤗

a cartoon character from bob 's burgers is making a surprised face and saying yay !

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Candy Gourlay @candygourlay.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy book birthday to me and illustrator Jamie Bauza! Born today: LITTLE RHINO LOST, U.S. edition! Published by Crocodile Books @interlinkbooks.bsky.social The UK edition will be out in March, published by @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Jan 27

To those sending me Qs about Bluesky: pls post your question on your own feed w/hashtag #BlueskyHelpNeeded. To Bluesky gurus: pls check hashtag & help those who need it? Feel free to point ppl to specific pages on my Bluesky Guide.

Heading to NYC for meetings & #scbwiNY25, doing final packing now!

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