📚✨Caroline L. Perry ✨📚
@carolinelperry.bsky.social
Picture book author
www.carolinelperry.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/carolinelperry
📘I Am Not Happy! 🇦🇺 (S&S, ‘25)
📕 Messi’s Magic ⚽️ (Scholastic, ‘25)
📗Nighty Knight 🏰 (S&S, ‘26)
📙The Memory Cake 🇲🇹 (out now!)
📚 The Corgi and the Queen (out now!)
www.carolinelperry.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/carolinelperry
📘I Am Not Happy! 🇦🇺 (S&S, ‘25)
📕 Messi’s Magic ⚽️ (Scholastic, ‘25)
📗Nighty Knight 🏰 (S&S, ‘26)
📙The Memory Cake 🇲🇹 (out now!)
📚 The Corgi and the Queen (out now!)
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In exactly six months I AM NOT HAPPY! will hop onto shelves! We can't wait for everyone to meet our adorable, mercurial marsupial (and it's available for preorder now... if you'd like a signed copy, please buy from my lovely local indie: pagesabookstore.com/book/9781665...) 🇦🇺 🐾 📕 ❤️
#quokka #kidlit
#quokka #kidlit
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🐲 THE BAKERY DRAGON AND THE FAIRY CAKE, a new Bakery Dragon picture book by Devin Elle Kurtz
😗 I AM NOT HAPPY, a hilarious animal picture book by Caroline L. Perry, illustrated by Sydney Hanson
😗 I AM NOT HAPPY, a hilarious animal picture book by Caroline L. Perry, illustrated by Sydney Hanson
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🐲 THE BAKERY DRAGON AND THE FAIRY CAKE, a new Bakery Dragon picture book by Devin Elle Kurtz
😗 I AM NOT HAPPY, a hilarious animal picture book by Caroline L. Perry, illustrated by Sydney Hanson
😗 I AM NOT HAPPY, a hilarious animal picture book by Caroline L. Perry, illustrated by Sydney Hanson
🎉 I couldn’t be more delighted to share this news: I AM NOT HAPPY! is a KIDS’ INDIE NEXT PICK for November/December! 🎉
This honor means so much, especially because it comes from indie booksellers—tastemakers, joy-bringers, and some of the very best people, anywhere! THANK YOU, indies!
🎉🇦🇺 🐾 📖 😀🥳❤️🎉
This honor means so much, especially because it comes from indie booksellers—tastemakers, joy-bringers, and some of the very best people, anywhere! THANK YOU, indies!
🎉🇦🇺 🐾 📖 😀🥳❤️🎉
October 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🎉 I couldn’t be more delighted to share this news: I AM NOT HAPPY! is a KIDS’ INDIE NEXT PICK for November/December! 🎉
This honor means so much, especially because it comes from indie booksellers—tastemakers, joy-bringers, and some of the very best people, anywhere! THANK YOU, indies!
🎉🇦🇺 🐾 📖 😀🥳❤️🎉
This honor means so much, especially because it comes from indie booksellers—tastemakers, joy-bringers, and some of the very best people, anywhere! THANK YOU, indies!
🎉🇦🇺 🐾 📖 😀🥳❤️🎉
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🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @carolinelperry.bsky.social! 🎉
📚 I AM NOT HAPPY!, illustrated by Sydney Hanson and published by @simonandschuster.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨
Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y
#kidlit #12x12PB
📚 I AM NOT HAPPY!, illustrated by Sydney Hanson and published by @simonandschuster.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨
Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y
#kidlit #12x12PB
October 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @carolinelperry.bsky.social! 🎉
📚 I AM NOT HAPPY!, illustrated by Sydney Hanson and published by @simonandschuster.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨
Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y
#kidlit #12x12PB
📚 I AM NOT HAPPY!, illustrated by Sydney Hanson and published by @simonandschuster.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨
Find it here: buff.ly/9DqKW0y
#kidlit #12x12PB
✨ I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in just ONE WEEK’S TIME! Check out this adorable trailer 🎉✨
This book—written by me, and illustrated by the amazing @sydhanson—is guaranteed to turn any frown upside down!
Preorder now and get a FREE plush quokka keyring! Link in bio 🇦🇺 🐾 📖
#quokka #kidlit
This book—written by me, and illustrated by the amazing @sydhanson—is guaranteed to turn any frown upside down!
Preorder now and get a FREE plush quokka keyring! Link in bio 🇦🇺 🐾 📖
#quokka #kidlit
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🐾 HOLY QUOKKAMOLE! 🐾
I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in two weeks’ time!
Preorder mine & @sydhanson’s hilarious new picture book & get a FREE plush quokka keychain! Order from an indie for a bonus surprise! 🤩
Link to preorder form in bio 🇦🇺✨
U.S. only, ends 10/6/25.
#kidlit #australia #book
I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in two weeks’ time!
Preorder mine & @sydhanson’s hilarious new picture book & get a FREE plush quokka keychain! Order from an indie for a bonus surprise! 🤩
Link to preorder form in bio 🇦🇺✨
U.S. only, ends 10/6/25.
#kidlit #australia #book
September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🐾 HOLY QUOKKAMOLE! 🐾
I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in two weeks’ time!
Preorder mine & @sydhanson’s hilarious new picture book & get a FREE plush quokka keychain! Order from an indie for a bonus surprise! 🤩
Link to preorder form in bio 🇦🇺✨
U.S. only, ends 10/6/25.
#kidlit #australia #book
I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in two weeks’ time!
Preorder mine & @sydhanson’s hilarious new picture book & get a FREE plush quokka keychain! Order from an indie for a bonus surprise! 🤩
Link to preorder form in bio 🇦🇺✨
U.S. only, ends 10/6/25.
#kidlit #australia #book
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This looks incredible! His little (not) happy face! Every page of the preview makes me smile...this needs to go on my pre-order list 😃
September 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This looks incredible! His little (not) happy face! Every page of the preview makes me smile...this needs to go on my pre-order list 😃
✨ TODAY’S THE DAY — Messi’s Magic kicks off! ⚽️📚✨
I’m so excited to share the trailer for my picture book biography of the G.O.A.T. 🐐—Lionel Messi!
With heart ❤️, determination 💪, and a little bit of magic 🪄 , Messi’s story will inspire dreamers of all ages. Available now! ⚽️ 🥅
#kidlit #newbook
I’m so excited to share the trailer for my picture book biography of the G.O.A.T. 🐐—Lionel Messi!
With heart ❤️, determination 💪, and a little bit of magic 🪄 , Messi’s story will inspire dreamers of all ages. Available now! ⚽️ 🥅
#kidlit #newbook
September 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
✨ I’m so excited for the official launch of Messi’s Magic at @pagesabookstore on Saturday 9/6 at 10.30am! ✨
⚽️ Score signed copies, delicious treats and soccer-themed goodies, and enjoy a book reading and crafts!
⚽️ LA friends, I hope to see you there 🥰
#soccer #messi #kidlit #newbook
⚽️ Score signed copies, delicious treats and soccer-themed goodies, and enjoy a book reading and crafts!
⚽️ LA friends, I hope to see you there 🥰
#soccer #messi #kidlit #newbook
September 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book MESSI'S MAGIC by @carolinelperry.bsky.social illustrated by Luciano Lozano (Scholastic) out on Sept. 2.
To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2025/08/the-... (+ more ways to win)
To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2025/08/the-... (+ more ways to win)
August 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book MESSI'S MAGIC by @carolinelperry.bsky.social illustrated by Luciano Lozano (Scholastic) out on Sept. 2.
To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2025/08/the-... (+ more ways to win)
To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2025/08/the-... (+ more ways to win)
Thanks so much for sharing, Deborah! #kidlit
Q&A with Caroline L. Perry about her new children's picture book, THE MEMORY CAKE.
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@carolinelperry.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Thanks so much for sharing, Deborah! #kidlit
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We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!
lbpost.com/news/educati...
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Long Beach will open up its e-book library so teens from other states can read banned books
It's part of a nationwide push to let young people access reading material that may have been thrown out of their local libraries and schools.
lbpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!
lbpost.com/news/educati...
lbpost.com/news/educati...
✨I’m overjoyed to announce that Messi’s Magic is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!✨
Messi’s Magic is ready for kickoff on September 2nd, and it’s available for preorder now! ⚽️ 🥅 📕 🎉🏅
#goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard
#juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #messi #kidlit
Messi’s Magic is ready for kickoff on September 2nd, and it’s available for preorder now! ⚽️ 🥅 📕 🎉🏅
#goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard
#juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #messi #kidlit
August 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
✨I’m overjoyed to announce that Messi’s Magic is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!✨
Messi’s Magic is ready for kickoff on September 2nd, and it’s available for preorder now! ⚽️ 🥅 📕 🎉🏅
#goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard
#juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #messi #kidlit
Messi’s Magic is ready for kickoff on September 2nd, and it’s available for preorder now! ⚽️ 🥅 📕 🎉🏅
#goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard
#juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #messi #kidlit
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Just in time to celebrate Messi's birthday, I got an advanced copy of this cool picture book, MESSI'S MAGIC: HOW LIONEL MESSI BECAME THE G.O.A.T. by @carolinelperry.bsky.social illustrated by Luciano Lozano (Scholastic).
Perfect for young soccer fans, it'll be out Sept 2, so pre-order it now!
Perfect for young soccer fans, it'll be out Sept 2, so pre-order it now!
June 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just in time to celebrate Messi's birthday, I got an advanced copy of this cool picture book, MESSI'S MAGIC: HOW LIONEL MESSI BECAME THE G.O.A.T. by @carolinelperry.bsky.social illustrated by Luciano Lozano (Scholastic).
Perfect for young soccer fans, it'll be out Sept 2, so pre-order it now!
Perfect for young soccer fans, it'll be out Sept 2, so pre-order it now!
Reposted by 📚✨Caroline L. Perry ✨📚
This gorgeous book is also out today!! It’s sweet and profound and wonderful. #kidlit
✨ The Memory Cake is out tomorrow!✨
This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!
#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!
#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
June 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This gorgeous book is also out today!! It’s sweet and profound and wonderful. #kidlit
✨ Today is The Memory Cake’s book birthday! ✨
This special book, stunningly illustrated by Jennifer Bricking, is a story of my heart and a tribute to resilience, love, Malta’s unique culture, and cake!
Available from anywhere books are sold 🇲🇹 🍰 ✨📕
#kidlit #newbook #picturebook #author
This special book, stunningly illustrated by Jennifer Bricking, is a story of my heart and a tribute to resilience, love, Malta’s unique culture, and cake!
Available from anywhere books are sold 🇲🇹 🍰 ✨📕
#kidlit #newbook #picturebook #author
June 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
✨ Today is The Memory Cake’s book birthday! ✨
This special book, stunningly illustrated by Jennifer Bricking, is a story of my heart and a tribute to resilience, love, Malta’s unique culture, and cake!
Available from anywhere books are sold 🇲🇹 🍰 ✨📕
#kidlit #newbook #picturebook #author
This special book, stunningly illustrated by Jennifer Bricking, is a story of my heart and a tribute to resilience, love, Malta’s unique culture, and cake!
Available from anywhere books are sold 🇲🇹 🍰 ✨📕
#kidlit #newbook #picturebook #author
✨ The Memory Cake is out tomorrow!✨
This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!
#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!
#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
June 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
✨ The Memory Cake is out tomorrow!✨
This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!
#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!
#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
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@carolinelperry.bsky.social’s gentle text & Jen Bricking’s loving illustrations masterfully weave the past & present in this story about hope, resilience, & love. Readers will certainly appreciate the rich layers in THE MEMORY CAKE. Such a beautiful and memorable picture book! #kidlit #booksky
June 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
@carolinelperry.bsky.social’s gentle text & Jen Bricking’s loving illustrations masterfully weave the past & present in this story about hope, resilience, & love. Readers will certainly appreciate the rich layers in THE MEMORY CAKE. Such a beautiful and memorable picture book! #kidlit #booksky
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New projects coming from @kelseyegross.bsky.social @joecepeda.bsky.social @carolinelperry.bsky.social + more
Rights Report: Week of May 19, 2025
New deals for Talia Tucker, Josh Galarza, Megan Beam, and others.
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May 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New projects coming from @kelseyegross.bsky.social @joecepeda.bsky.social @carolinelperry.bsky.social + more
I’m delighted to be able to share news of Nobody’s Cat! I’ve wanted to write a ghost town story for as long as I can remember, and I feel so lucky to be working with Devin Fan on this project! Thank you so much to the team at Kids Can Press, I can’t wait for readers to meet Fancy 🐈⬛📕❤️
#kidlit
#kidlit
May 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I’m delighted to be able to share news of Nobody’s Cat! I’ve wanted to write a ghost town story for as long as I can remember, and I feel so lucky to be working with Devin Fan on this project! Thank you so much to the team at Kids Can Press, I can’t wait for readers to meet Fancy 🐈⬛📕❤️
#kidlit
#kidlit
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Coming soon: new projects from @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social @kelseyegross.bsky.social @joecepeda.bsky.social @carolinelperry.bsky.social + more buff.ly/Ndpm0AQ
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Coming soon: new projects from @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social @kelseyegross.bsky.social @joecepeda.bsky.social @carolinelperry.bsky.social + more buff.ly/Ndpm0AQ
The Memory Cake is a story of resilience, love and connection, stunningly illustrated by Jen Bricking. It comes out on June 3rd with @holidayhouse but if you preorder today or tomorrow you can get it for 25% off!!
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The Memory Cake is a story of resilience, love and connection, stunningly illustrated by Jen Bricking. It comes out on June 3rd with @holidayhouse but if you preorder today or tomorrow you can get it for 25% off!!
I AM NOT HAPPY! is bouncing onto shelves on October 7th but you can get 25% off in Barnes & Noble’s preorder sale!
Link to purchase in bio…. We promise this book will turn your frown upside down! 🥰 🇦🇺 📕 🐾
#quokka #kidlit #quokkas #picturebook #picturebookart #newbook #australia #picturebooks
Link to purchase in bio…. We promise this book will turn your frown upside down! 🥰 🇦🇺 📕 🐾
#quokka #kidlit #quokkas #picturebook #picturebookart #newbook #australia #picturebooks
April 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I AM NOT HAPPY! is bouncing onto shelves on October 7th but you can get 25% off in Barnes & Noble’s preorder sale!
Link to purchase in bio…. We promise this book will turn your frown upside down! 🥰 🇦🇺 📕 🐾
#quokka #kidlit #quokkas #picturebook #picturebookart #newbook #australia #picturebooks
Link to purchase in bio…. We promise this book will turn your frown upside down! 🥰 🇦🇺 📕 🐾
#quokka #kidlit #quokkas #picturebook #picturebookart #newbook #australia #picturebooks
In exactly six months I AM NOT HAPPY! will hop onto shelves! We can't wait for everyone to meet our adorable, mercurial marsupial (and it's available for preorder now... if you'd like a signed copy, please buy from my lovely local indie: pagesabookstore.com/book/9781665...) 🇦🇺 🐾 📕 ❤️
#quokka #kidlit
#quokka #kidlit
April 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In exactly six months I AM NOT HAPPY! will hop onto shelves! We can't wait for everyone to meet our adorable, mercurial marsupial (and it's available for preorder now... if you'd like a signed copy, please buy from my lovely local indie: pagesabookstore.com/book/9781665...) 🇦🇺 🐾 📕 ❤️
#quokka #kidlit
#quokka #kidlit
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Libraries & museums are essential pillars of our communities, and this is devastating.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
bookriot.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Libraries & museums are essential pillars of our communities, and this is devastating.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.