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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · 7d

Trick or Treat with #SeasonsOfKidLit

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Trick or Treat with Agent Ashlee MacCallum! HUGE Submission Opportunity Inside!

Hi, readers, writers, and querying creators of all kinds! Today is #SeasonsOfKidLit’s last day of our 2025 Trick-or-Treat Event, and we’re closing it out in an extremely BIG way! We’re thrilled to wel...

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Love knows no distance in Bea's Balikbayan Box of Treasures. #BalikbayanBox #FamilyLove #FilipinoHeritage #picturebook #CulturalConnection @christinealemshah.bsky.social

Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Aug 13

TAKE 5 with CHRISTINA SHAWN beckywalkerbooks.com/2025/08/11/t...

TAKE 5 with CHRISTINA SHAWN

Families grow and change, but what if you aren’t ready to welcome in a new parent, puppy, or baby sister? Change can be scary. But even a full heart has room to grow. At turns hilarious and heartwa…

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Celebrate Summer Reading & Fun Berrie Torgan-Randall!

Hi, readers, writers, and duck lovers, too! It's day two of our summer reading celebration and we have a special treat for you today. Berrie Torgan-Randall, author and illustrator of multiple books, i...

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Apr 2

@ttorrible.bsky.social Happy National Poetry Month! Life’s more fun with a rhyme and a pun! - Torrible Puns: A Collection of Punny Poems

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #puns #jokes #humor #teachers #librarians #picturebook

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway!

Heather Stigall is offering a critique on a fiction or informational fiction picture book. Prose or rhyme is ok (no free-verse). 850 words or under please.

To enter like, comment, and repost. Must do all three.

Good luck!

@heatherstigall7.bsky.social

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Yay for rhyme! *fingers crossed*

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Here’s another #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Laura Bontje is offering a critique on a picture book that is in prose or rhyme and up to 1,000 words long.

To enter like, comment, and repost. Must do all three.

Good luck!

@LauraBontje

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

a cartoon character named bugs bunny is standing in front of a green fence

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

It’s time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Amy Houts is offering a critique on a picture book that is under 800 words. It can be rhyming or prose, fiction or nonfiction.

Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three.

Good luck!
@amyhouts.bsky.social

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Jenna Grodzicki is offering a critique on a fiction pb under 700 words, or a nonfiction pb under 1000 words.

Like, comment, and repost to enter.

Must do all three.

Good luck!

@jennagrodzicki.bsky.social

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

a young boy is covering his face with his hands while sitting on a bed .

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Jolene Gutierrez is offering a critique on a non rhyming picture book under 500 words.

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Good luck!

@writerjolene.bsky.social

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! CK Malone is offering a critique on a fiction picture book with 1,500 words or less.
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Good luck!

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway!

Jenny Lynn Pease (that’s me!) is offering a critique on a fiction or non fiction picture book that’s under 1,000 words. No rhyming please.

Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all 3.

Good luck!

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway!

Lisa Katzenberger is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 1,000 words or less.

To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three.

Good luck!

@lisakatzenberger.bsky.social

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Fingers crossed! 😄

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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway!

Norene Paulson is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 800 words or less.

To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three.

Good luck!

@nrpaulson.bsky.social

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Laura Handy @lauradhandy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Fingers crossed 😄

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