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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!
@caitdarfler.com
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picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️‍🌈

Co-Assistant Regional Advisor, SCBWI NY: West/Central
PBParty2025 Finalist!

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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Girl and the Dinosaur & The Girl and the Mermaid
Hollie Hughes

Gorgeous and imaginative. I loved the magic in both of these stories.
Covers for The Girl and the Dinosaur& The Girl and the Mermaid. One shows a small brown girl and white haired mermaid smiling underwater together. The other shows a white girl with red hair riding on the back of a long neck dinosaur in front of the moon.
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Same, Toad. Same.
frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 22h
“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.
Toad sits in a chair, cramming cookies into his mouth. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*
December 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Everybelly
Thao Lam

Yes, THIS. More of this. More visuals of REAL bodies. The art in this book is *chef's kiss*. Very kid friendly all around. I love it!
Cover for Everybelly - artful cutout of a small girl in goggle and a swim cap underwater, her tan belly peaks from under her floral rash guard. There is also the lower half of a black woman swimming in a yellow suit and a pair of black arms and legs floating.
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Polar Bear and the Ballerina
Eric Velasquez

What a feast for the eyes. I was transfixed by the use of color and the imagination.
Cover for The Polar Bear and the Ballerina - shows a magnificant black girl doing a arabesque en pointe with a brilliant long red scarf trailing behind her, in the background an enormous polar swims in it's tank.
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

A Stickler Christmas
Lane Smith

This is one of my favorite book characters, and he's absolutely ridiculous. I adore the Stickler books. Give yourself a gift and snuggle up with this one
Cover for A Stickler Christmas showing a big fat reindeer int he snow with the Stickler character on it's back and a large red sack. Sticker is wearing a red pointed cap.
December 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

My Dear Sea
Andre Carrilho
@andrecarrilho.bsky.social

A will absolutely, without a doubt get ANY picture book by Carrilho, forevermore.
Cover fro My Dear Sea. Shows a small girl with balck hair peering into the vast underwater worlld. with red and orage fish, crabs and coral, splashing blue waves and deep green seaweed.
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

String Ball
Chris Monroe

Terrific depiction of motion and action. Wordless and filled with fun.
Cover for String Ball show large red ball of string and small black cat peaking out from it
December 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Tough auntie duties tonight... Hold the sleeping baby while everyone else cleans up from Chanukah dinner.
White lady with glasses (Cait) holding sleeping baby
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Gravity Is Brining Me Down
Wendelin Van Draanen & Cornelia Li
@wendelinvand.bsky.social
@cornelia-illo.bsky.social

Love this story. Lot of science and heart. Circular story. Filled with facts and ways to look at gravity. Brilliant
Cover for Gravity Is Brining Me Down, show brown hair girl in glasses in four frames tumble-slip-sliding down to a crash landing.
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Pig Town Party
Lian Cho
@liantomato.bsky.social

How refreshing to have a MC you don't love. Completely surprise ending. Made me laugh out loud.
Cover for Pig Town Party - small piggish girl in blue dress with pigtails surrounded by frame of pig faces staring at her.
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Be Bold Bob
Jane Porter & Jenni Desmond
@jennidesmond.bsky.social

Unique take. Overcoming fears and making friendships. Very cute.
Cover for Be Bold Bob. Shows a pangolin strumming a ukelele walking across a log following an elephant wearing a red striped tshirt.
December 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

The Couch in the Yard
Kate Hoefler & Dena Seiferling

Here were my notes: Gorgeous. Rhyming, magical, lyrical. Sweet ode to often overlooked things.
Cover for The Couch in the Yard - Shows a family sitting on a couch in their yard. There is a broken down car in the foreground and a small house in the background.
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

I'm Sorry You Got Mad
Kyle Lukoff & Julie Kwon
@kylelukoff.bsky.social
@jumboshrimp.bsky.social

THIS BOOK!!!!!! The arc. The tension. Masterful.
[as a #writer I'm fascinated with what this sort of MS looked like before submission.]
Cover for I'm sorry you got Mad. Show angry boy with black hair and a red striped shirt writing a letter. The background is littered with crumpled letters.
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Molly's Tuxedo
Vicki Johnson & Gillian Reid
@vickijohnsonwrites.bsky.social

I could have used this book as a kid... or as an adult. Took me 40 years to figure out how I wanted to dress myself. I can't recommend this book more. For everyone.
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Picture Book Connect: Let's Polish Up Your Manuscript! Bring those first 250 words of your picture book manuscript to share. Feel free to drop by to meet SCBWI picture book writers.
#kidlit #picturebook #scbwi

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December 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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A ton of other great items to win too: crits or AMAs with @maggielehrman.com & @alvinaling.bsky.social, MANY signed books (including a signed copy of WICKED!), original illustration art & more! $$$ -> scholarships for this creative retreat. Check it all out! www.32auctions.com/KindlingWords
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Silent auction 'KW Scholarship Silent Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I adore this book. I'm a rock dork, so I adore most rock books, but this one is extra special.
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Your picture book needs to answer one question fast: So what?

If you can't answer it, neither can an editor (or a sales rep, or a buyer). Today's post explains exactly how to fix that.

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#PictureBooks #WritingTips #KidLit
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

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Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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#writers this is worth a read. #kidlit

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Imposter Syndrome Crisis
By Rachel Toalson

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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Imposter Syndrome Crisis
As a runner who dabbles in long distances of the double digit kind, my resting heart rate sits at about 45-50 beats per minute on any given day. For the last two hours, it had been stuck at 85—almo…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Get your query letter ready to send to agents! Learn about the querying process and what to do while waiting for responses.

#kidlit #scbwi

Register here:
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November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I need to remember this!
vickyweberbooks.bsky.social Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · Nov 10
“Show, don’t tell” doesn’t mean “never tell.” It means to find the balance.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I wear another hat beyond #kidlit #writer - chairing a county environmental advisory board - and today I had a small win!

Legislation I was leading, made it unanimously through committee.
#Celebrate!

Onwards!

#volunteering #environmental
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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@scbwiwestcentny.bsky.socia representing at The Rochester Children & Teens’ Book Festival www.rcbfest.com

It's quite a lineup of authors and illustrators!

Come say hi, 10am-4pm at Monroe Community College

With @pattywurster.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Tomorrow (Sat 11/8) I'll be with @scbwiwestcentny.bsky.social & @pattywurster.bsky.social at The Rochester Children & Teens’ Book Festival www.rcbfest.com

It's quite a lineup of authors and illustrators!

Come say hi, 10am-4pm at Monroe Community College
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM