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Erin Bow
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Author, author! I write novels and poetry, and teach scientists to tell stories. Latest books: a knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen (poetry) and Simon Sort of Says (middle grade novel). NEWBERY HONOR WINNER BABY!!!!!
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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · Feb 8
My VERY BIG NEWS is official. I am writing a series with my Simon Sort of Says team at Disney books.
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I illustrate fiction and non-fiction picture books and am represented by Alexandra Penfold at Upstart Crow Literary. Website: lizwongillustration.com
Liz Wong Illustration postcard for KidLitArtPostcard, showing an arctic fox with a ptarmigan against a starry sky. Text reads: Lizwongillustration.com Represented by Alexandra Penfold at Upstart Crow Literary.
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Happy Birthday to me and also Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! What a good sport this lion is. #KidLitArt #KidLitIllustration #IllustrationArt #ChildrensIllustration
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hey look! It's #kidlitartpostcard day!
This image is from a new picture book dummy submission. Contact my agent to view.

Portfolio: www.davidhohn.com
Represented by: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social

#childrensbook #dogs #bestpals #kidlitart #illustration
Girl and her dog sit together in a red wagon watching the sun set.
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Happy December #kidlitartpostcard day!

When does winter feel like it's truly started for you?

More work here:
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com

I'm open for picturebook work in 2026. contact my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kidlitart #illustration #picturebooks
Children's illustration postcard showing a boy on his mum's shoulders standing on a high hill. They are watching a flock of ice cream vans migrate south for the winter.
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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k8cosgrove Hello
#kidlitartpostcard buddies,
I make books for kids!
Rep: Deborah Warren @eastwestlit.bsky.social

#kidlitart #art #childrensbooks
#NYTbestseller
#moomininspired #kidsbooks #kidlit #mermaid #merbunny #rabbit #bunny
Two white green & blue mermaid bunnies enjoying swimming and basking in a lush cotton candy forest with a twisty pink tree
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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When my partner saw my previous #kidlitartpostcard he challenged me to make a forward-facing version. So here it is!

I love illustrating busy scenes, vibrant colours and silly animals ❤️

Website: rachel-foo.com
Agency 💼 : astound.us/publishing

#art #kidlitart #illustration
An illustration of a child with a bunch of birds facing forward. Birds include a Major Mitchell Cockatoo, a blue footed Booby and a Barn Owl. The boy still has his net for some reason, and there are still no insects to be found.
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Bustling about - much of the day in hospital for routine tests and images. grateful for free healthcare but also ready for cocoa and bed.
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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#sketchbookdiary progress: here’s where I am in learning to quick, highly abstracted sketches of people.

That turns out to be (artists out there will be shocked!) REALLY HARD.

Does anyone have resources to recommend?

December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Oh interesting, whose fault is that?
Headline from NYT: losing the climate information war
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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absolutely this

time is a finite resource and we all only get so much of it

and we don’t even know how much we’re gonna get

spend it on things that matter to you 🩷
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6d
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Example from my sketchbook diary of how picking one thing to record every day sometimes makes unexpected connections.
The sketchbook diaries spread - pen drawings with watercolour wash. On one side, a foot sticking out from under a blanket. Text reads: last night I was walking past my daughter‘s room and noticed that she was asleep with 1 foot sticking out from under the blankets just like my sister used to sleep, and my mom. Funny how the body remembers things that the mind can possibly remember when my daughter was little, she would stand with a hand on her hip, just like my sister. On the other side, drawings of knit sweaters. The text reads: today I donated Pat’s old sweaters to her parish, holy Savior, where they remember her and her knitting well and fondly. It feels good that something she put so much love and time into retains that connection Even after we give it away. The words “embodiment and memory” are linked to the word “connection “ by a yellow ribbon.
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#sketchbookdiary — a snow squall.
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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This year for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I pledge to unsubscribe to every retailer that emails me. Join me?
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Not quite sure about the new sketchbook. The last two were watercolor sketchbooks, but they have so few pages. This one is mixed media, and a more satisfying length, but sketch mostly with India ink in a fountain pen. There’s some ghosting — not terrible but visible.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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First spread in a brand-new sketchbook diary - my third. I find all- black objects hard to capture, but I am pleased with this sketch of my cat Cygnus. #cygnustheemotionalsupportcat
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I want this moment for us
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Hey remember this? Look now!
Our former doom room is now empty — containing only gym equipment. Visible here is a kickboxing target, a yoga ball, and a stretch of empty floor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Writers and librarians, speak to me of archives.

We are cleaning out the Doom Room in our house. I have uncovered multiple bankers boxes full of my novel drafts and notebooks full of scribbles and research etc.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Happy gotcha day to Agate, queen of the moon.
Photo of a tabby cat in front of a large vintage map of the moon. A ink sketch of the same cat, with a watercolor wash.
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
Cartoon Miss Piggy is karate chopping the convicted felon out of frame HAI-YAH!
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I had a GP appt today, and we were comparing notes on treating my POTS and I mentioned the new hives thing maybe indicated MCAS and said “I know you must dread people who did their own research.”

Doctor: oh, no, you’re okay; this is great.”

Me: really?
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Canada passes a budget (narrowly) - play by play of how it actually went down.
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LOGGED INTO CBC THIS IS SERIOUS NOW
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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#sketchbookdiary about some powerful television we’ve seen this week - the first three episodes of #pluribus and the first four of #hurricanekatrinaraceagainsttime
Rough and ready brush pen draw and text - on one side the face of the main character in pluribus on the phone, and on the other a hurricane from above.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Small things are the best things - a sketchbook diary page about the small pleasure of the past two days.
Ink drawings labelled “agate cat’s parti-coloured toe beans, whiskey in the good glass, orange and almond dark chocolate, bubble bath, full punch card from a favourite cafe and sour cream coffee cake for breakfast, momofuku chili crunch.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM