Vicky Fang | Kidlit Author & Illustrator
@fangmousbooks.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, designer. LAYLA & THE BOTS, INVENT-A-PET, FRIENDBOTS, BEST BUDDIES (Scholastic, '23), AVA LIN (Candlewick, '24), & more.
Updated schedule for NCTE with room and booth numbers! Looking forward to seeing you there!
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Updated schedule for NCTE with room and booth numbers! Looking forward to seeing you there!
Took my book about the pumpkin patch to the pumpkin patch.
October 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Took my book about the pumpkin patch to the pumpkin patch.
So exciting to see THE BOO CREW AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH RESCUE popping up in bookstores! Thank you to friends for spotting and sharing pics from Bookends in Winchester, MA, Kidsbooks in Edgemont, BC, and @lindentree.bsky.social in Los Altos, CA! ❤️🎃📚
October 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
So exciting to see THE BOO CREW AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH RESCUE popping up in bookstores! Thank you to friends for spotting and sharing pics from Bookends in Winchester, MA, Kidsbooks in Edgemont, BC, and @lindentree.bsky.social in Los Altos, CA! ❤️🎃📚
Beautifully illustrated, SOURGRASS by @hopelim.bsky.social and illustrated by #shahrzadmaydani is a sweet story that highlights the lasting qualities of friendship despite changes in distance in time. #friendship #promise
September 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Beautifully illustrated, SOURGRASS by @hopelim.bsky.social and illustrated by #shahrzadmaydani is a sweet story that highlights the lasting qualities of friendship despite changes in distance in time. #friendship #promise
This week on Kidlit Survival Guide, I talk about how to keep your ideas flexible while you’re developing a story. Read more from @christinenevans.bsky.social and me every week! kidlitsurvivalguide.substack.com/p/staying-sq...
August 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This week on Kidlit Survival Guide, I talk about how to keep your ideas flexible while you’re developing a story. Read more from @christinenevans.bsky.social and me every week! kidlitsurvivalguide.substack.com/p/staying-sq...
It’s launch day for THE BOO CREW AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH RESCUE! Much love to illustrator @saoirselou.bsky.social, the team @sourcebooks.bsky.social, my editor Wendy McClure, my agent Elizabeth Bennett, & CPs @christinenevans.bsky.social Faith Kazmi. ❤️❤️❤️ Signed copies at @lindentree.bsky.social!
July 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It’s launch day for THE BOO CREW AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH RESCUE! Much love to illustrator @saoirselou.bsky.social, the team @sourcebooks.bsky.social, my editor Wendy McClure, my agent Elizabeth Bennett, & CPs @christinenevans.bsky.social Faith Kazmi. ❤️❤️❤️ Signed copies at @lindentree.bsky.social!
THE BOO CREW AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH RESCUE releases at the end of this month! Help the crew save the fall festival at the pumpkin patch!
Pre-order from @lindentree.bsky.social for signed copies and a character sticker featuring @saoirselou.bsky.social’s adorable art!
vickyfang.com/books/the-bo...
Pre-order from @lindentree.bsky.social for signed copies and a character sticker featuring @saoirselou.bsky.social’s adorable art!
vickyfang.com/books/the-bo...
July 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
THE BOO CREW AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH RESCUE releases at the end of this month! Help the crew save the fall festival at the pumpkin patch!
Pre-order from @lindentree.bsky.social for signed copies and a character sticker featuring @saoirselou.bsky.social’s adorable art!
vickyfang.com/books/the-bo...
Pre-order from @lindentree.bsky.social for signed copies and a character sticker featuring @saoirselou.bsky.social’s adorable art!
vickyfang.com/books/the-bo...
I’m planning a big double giveaway in my newsletter, going out this week! A signed classroom set of Ava Lin, Super-Duper Happy (25 copies) and all three Ava Lin audiobooks! bit.ly/3TsYhV5
July 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’m planning a big double giveaway in my newsletter, going out this week! A signed classroom set of Ava Lin, Super-Duper Happy (25 copies) and all three Ava Lin audiobooks! bit.ly/3TsYhV5
All three Ava Lin audiobooks are now available, narrated by yours truly! bit.ly/4489Iq7
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
All three Ava Lin audiobooks are now available, narrated by yours truly! bit.ly/4489Iq7
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
Ava Lin, Super-Duper Happy is out in the world today! Join me this Saturday, 11am at @lindentree.bsky.social, for a super-duper launch party for Ava Lin: Super-Duper Happy! In true Ava Lin style, there will be lots of fun stuff, like treats, and drawing, and mood rings!
June 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ava Lin, Super-Duper Happy is out in the world today! Join me this Saturday, 11am at @lindentree.bsky.social, for a super-duper launch party for Ava Lin: Super-Duper Happy! In true Ava Lin style, there will be lots of fun stuff, like treats, and drawing, and mood rings!
Hooray! Ava Lin, Best Friend! made it onto the Bank Street Books Best Children's Books of the Year 2025 Edition! Thank you to @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social and to the team at @candlewickpress.bsky.social for making this book shine. bit.ly/4kBRXXo
June 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hooray! Ava Lin, Best Friend! made it onto the Bank Street Books Best Children's Books of the Year 2025 Edition! Thank you to @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social and to the team at @candlewickpress.bsky.social for making this book shine. bit.ly/4kBRXXo
It's a great review from Kirkus for Super-Duper Happy, the third book in the Ava Lin series! I'm so proud of this series and grateful for the positive reviews from readers and critics. ❤️ Releases next week!
June 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's a great review from Kirkus for Super-Duper Happy, the third book in the Ava Lin series! I'm so proud of this series and grateful for the positive reviews from readers and critics. ❤️ Releases next week!
Here’s a sneak peek at Super-Duper Happy, the third book in the Ava Lin series!
Releases June 10, available now for pre-order from your favorite bookstore! vickyfang.com/books/ava-li...
Releases June 10, available now for pre-order from your favorite bookstore! vickyfang.com/books/ava-li...
June 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Here’s a sneak peek at Super-Duper Happy, the third book in the Ava Lin series!
Releases June 10, available now for pre-order from your favorite bookstore! vickyfang.com/books/ava-li...
Releases June 10, available now for pre-order from your favorite bookstore! vickyfang.com/books/ava-li...
Here’s what it looks like to sign 338 books for a school visit! 🥰
Thank you to @hicklebees.bsky.social and Forest Hill Elementary for bringing Ava Lin and Best Buddies to your TK-2nd grade readers!
Thank you to @hicklebees.bsky.social and Forest Hill Elementary for bringing Ava Lin and Best Buddies to your TK-2nd grade readers!
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Here’s what it looks like to sign 338 books for a school visit! 🥰
Thank you to @hicklebees.bsky.social and Forest Hill Elementary for bringing Ava Lin and Best Buddies to your TK-2nd grade readers!
Thank you to @hicklebees.bsky.social and Forest Hill Elementary for bringing Ava Lin and Best Buddies to your TK-2nd grade readers!
I hope you’ll pick up some books from your favorite indie this week for Independent Bookstore Day! A few of my favorites that I’ve done events with this past year: @lindentree.bsky.social, @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social, @hicklebees.bsky.social, @booksinc.bsky.social ❤️
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I hope you’ll pick up some books from your favorite indie this week for Independent Bookstore Day! A few of my favorites that I’ve done events with this past year: @lindentree.bsky.social, @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social, @hicklebees.bsky.social, @booksinc.bsky.social ❤️
Today, I signed 200+ copies of Ava Lin and Best Buddies for an upcoming school visit with @lindentree.bsky.social! Support your local bookstores, they’re the best! ❤️❤️❤️
April 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Today, I signed 200+ copies of Ava Lin and Best Buddies for an upcoming school visit with @lindentree.bsky.social! Support your local bookstores, they’re the best! ❤️❤️❤️
I had a blast recording audio books for the Ava Lin series at Outpost Studio SF for Recorded Books & Candlewick, prompting such questions as Why do I have so much saliva?? and When am I supposed to breathe?? Available for pre-order now, WHEREVER YOU BUY AUDIOBOOKS <- first time getting to say that!!
April 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I had a blast recording audio books for the Ava Lin series at Outpost Studio SF for Recorded Books & Candlewick, prompting such questions as Why do I have so much saliva?? and When am I supposed to breathe?? Available for pre-order now, WHEREVER YOU BUY AUDIOBOOKS <- first time getting to say that!!
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April 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I'm going to TLA! It's my first time heading to Texas with my books, and I couldn't be more excited. On Thursday, April 3rd, I will be on a panel talking about Growing Readers with Beginner Chapter Books at 9:30. At 11:00, I’ll be signing copies of Ava Lin! If you’ll be there, please come say hello!
March 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm going to TLA! It's my first time heading to Texas with my books, and I couldn't be more excited. On Thursday, April 3rd, I will be on a panel talking about Growing Readers with Beginner Chapter Books at 9:30. At 11:00, I’ll be signing copies of Ava Lin! If you’ll be there, please come say hello!
With gorgeous text and illustrations that uplift the life and art of Barbara Cooney, WORLD MORE BEAUTIFUL celebrates the work of an artist who both admires and enriches the world around her. Readers will be inspired to do the same. Written by Angela Burke Kunkel and illustrated by Becca Stadlander.
March 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
With gorgeous text and illustrations that uplift the life and art of Barbara Cooney, WORLD MORE BEAUTIFUL celebrates the work of an artist who both admires and enriches the world around her. Readers will be inspired to do the same. Written by Angela Burke Kunkel and illustrated by Becca Stadlander.
Thank you to readers who share their photos with me! I loved seeing this boy’s Bop costume for Book Day—sent from Kuwait! It makes me so happy to see Layla and the Bots reaching readers all over the world. 🥰
March 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thank you to readers who share their photos with me! I loved seeing this boy’s Bop costume for Book Day—sent from Kuwait! It makes me so happy to see Layla and the Bots reaching readers all over the world. 🥰
In FLAMINGOS ARE PRETTY FUNKY, @abicushman.com's humor brings flamingo facts to life! I laughed and learned so much from this book. Who knew flamingos were so funky?? This is a fantastic book for kids who like animals, facts, or laughter (so pretty much every kid.)
March 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
In FLAMINGOS ARE PRETTY FUNKY, @abicushman.com's humor brings flamingo facts to life! I laughed and learned so much from this book. Who knew flamingos were so funky?? This is a fantastic book for kids who like animals, facts, or laughter (so pretty much every kid.)
Feels timely to be writing a review for I'M AN AMERICAN by @darshanakhiani.bsky.social and illustrated by #LauraFreeman— a book that looks at the patchwork of cultures in America and a great discussion starter for conversations about country, culture, diversity, and immigration.
March 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Feels timely to be writing a review for I'M AN AMERICAN by @darshanakhiani.bsky.social and illustrated by #LauraFreeman— a book that looks at the patchwork of cultures in America and a great discussion starter for conversations about country, culture, diversity, and immigration.
Today on Kidlit Survival Guide, I share the process behind the cover designs for the Ava Lin series. Book 3 releases in June! kidlitsurvivalguide.substack.com/p/behind-the...
February 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today on Kidlit Survival Guide, I share the process behind the cover designs for the Ava Lin series. Book 3 releases in June! kidlitsurvivalguide.substack.com/p/behind-the...
I'm proud to be joining the CMA 2025 Mentorship Program!
I'm excited to be able to share some of my knowledge as an author-illustrator. If you’re interested in being a mentee, applications are open Feb 10-14: www.childrensmediaassociation.org/mentorship/
I'm excited to be able to share some of my knowledge as an author-illustrator. If you’re interested in being a mentee, applications are open Feb 10-14: www.childrensmediaassociation.org/mentorship/
February 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I'm proud to be joining the CMA 2025 Mentorship Program!
I'm excited to be able to share some of my knowledge as an author-illustrator. If you’re interested in being a mentee, applications are open Feb 10-14: www.childrensmediaassociation.org/mentorship/
I'm excited to be able to share some of my knowledge as an author-illustrator. If you’re interested in being a mentee, applications are open Feb 10-14: www.childrensmediaassociation.org/mentorship/