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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 5h

For anyone with a yard/garden!

The Bird Host’s Handbook: Fall Tips for Your Yard

October is the perfect time to help birds thrive by planting native species, leaving leaf litter and setting up feeders. Learn how small changes at home can help create a

www.birdscanada.org

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5h

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social · 6h

Happy #PortfolioDay --spooky edition! 👻

I'm Brooke Baum and I'm an author/illustrator currently seeking representation! You can check out more spooky (and non-spooky, if you're into that sort of thing) work at brookebaum.com.

#kidlit #kidlitart

A witch knitting a scarf while her cat shreds it behind her.

A black, white, and orange grid of silly Halloween cats

A boy reading ghost stories and a ghost reading human stories

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 5h

😍😍😍

Cynthia Mackey, If a 🐝 Lands On Your Toe Now Available @booksbycindy.bsky.social · 19h

Cover Reveal!!!! BUTTERFLY SEA, written by me, illustrated by @marielaurecouet.bsky.social published by @tielmourpress.bsky.social
Coming soon to a book store near you! #Kidlitmegafeed
@cwillbc.bsky.social @canscaip.bsky.social @picturebookseh.bsky.social

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 6h

Hello #PortfolioDay! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 book projects! 🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Email - charlene [@] charlenechua[.]com
Agent - Tracy Marchini, Tracy Marchini Literary

#kidlitart #illustration #PB #GN #kidlit

Cover for When You Go to Dragon School by Chelsea M Campbell, illustrated by Charlene Chua. A group of school kids of various ages and ethnicities look at a group of friendly dragons of different shapes and sizes.

Cover for Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home, by AR Capetta, illustrated by Charlene Chua. Two cute puppies with paws on a cauldron in front of a purple, witchy looking house.

Cover for Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild, illustrated by Charlene Chua. Girl with read hair and a cowboy hat, holding a heart shape valentine, looking at another girl with a purple jacket and hat.

Cover for Things the Go Bump in the Day by Melinda Beatty illustrated by Charlene Chua. Cute blue vampire boy sitting up in his coffin bed, looking worried.

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Lupine Silvertail @lupinesilvertail.bsky.social · 1d

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 6h

Congrats, Steph! I love author panels more than any other type of appearance.

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 6h

Happy #PortfolioDay - I'm a children's book author and illustrator. Rep'd by Sean McCarthy. More work at: ginaperry.com #kidlitart

Promo illustration by Gina Perry. Night scene of colorful bugs making music and nibbling on leaves. Beetle plays ukelele, grasshopper plays a tin whistle, bee shakes a maraca. Fireflies add atmosphere.

Black and white illustration by Gina Perry. From the book Aven Green Sleuthing Machine by Dusti Bowling. A group of girls surrounds and loves on a scruffy dog. One girl has no arms, one girl has a unibrow. Scene is framed as a polaroid.

Illustration from the book TOO MUCH! NOT ENOUGH! by Gina Perry. Two monsters are in a very messy kitchen. The big blue monster, Moe, is washing dishes in the sink, looking annoyed by the small monster, Peanut. Peanut is covering his chin and head with bubbles (aka bubble beard and hair). Art and text by Gina Perry

Illustrated promo by Gina Perry. Forest scene, with a number of vehicles driving in the foreground while a fox peers from the shade of trees and ferns. A chipmunk is in the back of a truck with a boo-boo on his head, assisted by a girl gnome. Another gnome drives a flatbed truck with a load of beets. A girl gnome pedals a tricycle towing a jar of flowers.

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, Lorraine!

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! Thanks.

Toes might make the difference.

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 1d

Peace plan
For @rawstory.com

Beat the algorithms. Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

Should Obama have gotten the prize? NO

Should this orange asshat get the prize? NO.
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As for troops unnecessarily and unlawfully deployed in states who don't want or need them? Not peaceful. Not prize-worthy. Exactly the opposite, in fact. When facts are your enemy, you are the enemy.

Eff off.

Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

They should recreate this picture up their own stupid asses. Because A) both are asses, and B) both sculpt asses instead of sculpting brains.
(True confession: I'm an ass man - but I hate stupid asses.)

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

Satire is a higher order function. They are lower than a snake's belly. Dragging the rest of us down.

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

(But sometimes I come very, very close to loving everything about some things. I love ALMOST everything about the 2026 picture book by me, Mike Deas, and Orca Books. It's pinned.)

Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

Love that you feel that way. Wish I felt the same. But nope. I don't love everything about anything.

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

I love a lot about it. But not everything. Not the days and days in a row of wind, clouds, and rain. And not the fact that winter follows it.

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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 1d

Bloom county

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Andrea L. Mack @andreamack.bsky.social · 1d

I love this cozy early chapter book series, The Heartwood Hotel by Kallie George, illustrated by Stephanie Graegin. The latest, Family Forever, includes a birthday related mystery. Not for every kid but for nature or animal lovers, an absorbing escape from our screen based world. #kidlit 📚👍🏻 #edusky

Illustrated mouse and squirrel inside a heart shape

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Oct 14

Happy Columbo Day!

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much. Hope you're right! 🤞🤞🤞

(And if not a classic, I'll certainly settle for a runaway bestseller.)

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

It's Canadian Thanksgiving, and I'm super-thankful for these kind words.

“A charming tribute to the unrelenting and unconditional acceptance a dog gives.”
– Mike Boldt

“We could all stand to learn to love like a dog loves. Kids do it best, and every kid is going to fall for this book.”
– Adam Rex

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 1d

October's #KidLitArt topic is up! 🎃🦇

#kidlit

KidLitArt @kidlitart.bsky.social · 1d

October's topic for #KidLitArt chat will be - Spooky Chat!

Join your hosts on Oct 30, 9pm EST/6pm PST for an hour-long chat about spooky stuff!

Banner art by Rubin Pingk

Art of a black girl conjuring up magical cookies that are floating in the air. Text says Spooky Chat, #kidlitart. Art by Rubin Pingk

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Cynthia Mackey, If a 🐝 Lands On Your Toe Now Available @booksbycindy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m excited to share the official cover reveal tomorrow! #picturebook #Canadian #butterly #siblingstory #kidlitmegafeed #libsky #edusky #pb #kidlit #Cankidlit

Cover reveal poster for children’s book, Butterfly Sea.

Cynthia, a woman with shoulder length dark wavy hair and glasses.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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