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Sojung Kim-McCarthy
@creativesojung.bsky.social
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Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her

Agent: Susan Hawk | Upstart Crow Literary

BINNA’S DALGONA out now!
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World Illustration Awards 2021
Advert Category Winner

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Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social · Oct 14
Happy #PortfolioDay! I’m a Korean illustrator based in the UK. I illustrate PB-MG & would love to work on stories about ordinary brave girls✨Finding & helping community✨Folktales!

Repped by Susan Hawk @ Upstart Crow Literary

🖼️ sojungkimmccarthy.art
✉️ sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com

#KidLitArt
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staceybyer.bsky.social
Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day!
I'm Stacey & I’m always on the lookout for colourful, magical & sweet #pb projects!

Portfolio - staceybyer.com
Rep'd - @christaheschke.bsky.social @danieledhunter.bsky.social
@bookhive25.bsky.social

Email: stacebyer@gmail.com
#kidlit #illustration #caribbeankidlit
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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kellyamangan.bsky.social
I can’t believe this is the conversation I’m having rn with my friend to plan for what happens if ICE racially profiles, illegally detains, & abducts him.

But here it is in case it’s helpful to anybody else.

Also, download an app that alerts your contacts:
apps.apple.com/us/app/know-...
Text convo with a friend planning for what to do if he’s abducted by ICE
November 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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kellyamangan.bsky.social
It's #KidLitArtPostcard day!

I’m queer, neurodiverse #KidLitArt illustrator who favors
- sketchy lines
- playful patterns
- luscious lighting
- quirky characters
- tons of texture
- sweetly subversive humor
www.authorkellymangan.com/portfolio

Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social
#kidlitart
Families gather together to share a meal: A man brings noodles to the table. Two women are chatting and one is holding a baby. Two kids in the foreground are sneaking food to the dog.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
creativesojung.bsky.social
Post your space art ⭐ 🌏 ⭐
Childrens giving a hug to the earth in space, over a hand written sentence “There is no planet B”
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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ajirving.bsky.social
Storytime! Q&A! Craft! Dance party! Join me at the next Rainbow Connections online meetup on Monday, November 10 from 6:30-7:30 pm ET! 🌈 📚 Register: abingtonfreelibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/rai... #kidlit #booksky
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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kellyamangan.bsky.social
Post your space art!
Final spread of my picture book dummy: two girls imaging they’re astronauts floating in space with their squirrel friend. Squirrel astronaut Nyx, goddess of night
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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ajirving.bsky.social
Happy #NationalRedHeadDay from Birdie! Here’s a little queer joy by @kipalizadeh.net from THE WISHING FLOWER to brighten your day! 💕🌈💕 #kidlit #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
creativesojung.bsky.social
Happy #NationalRedHeadDay from Zack, my sweet ginger boy from BINNA’S DALGONA
Zack offering a cupcake he made to Binna Zack looking up at Binna on a beach picnic Zack licking a dalgona Zack giving Binna an apology card
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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jdebbiel.bsky.social
death fiddles and we dance
a medieval style drawing of two women embracing in a field. The word August is displayed above them in a fruit tree
December 22, 2023 at 2:17 PM
creativesojung.bsky.social
New PB storyboard sent to agent & I was free to mess around in the afternoon ✨

#drawing #kidlitart #fairy
Two drawings of fairies with butterfly wings. Sennelier oil pastels on canvas
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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creativesojung.bsky.social
I’ll leave this here in case anyone needs autumn greetings cards… Comes in pack of 1 or 3 🍁 🍂 sojungkimmccarthy.bigcartel.com/product/wood...

#kidlitart
October 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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kellyamangan.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! Here's an old mixed media piece I did (digital drawing and textiles).
Girl asleep with jack-o-lantern stuffie, is being tucked into bed by a friendly ghost
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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creativesojung.bsky.social
Happy Samhain! Here’s one from a few years ago 🎃

#KidLitArt
Children’s book style illustration of mum & daughter witches snuggled up on a sofa with hot drinks in their hands. They’re cozy, surrounded by family - a black cat asleep in a pumpkin-shaped house, a ghost playing hide-and-seek, and another black cat trying to catch a spider in a corner. There’s a ghost wearing a mask outside the window.
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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denisillustrates.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! Don't forget your hats tonight. ✨️

#kidlitart #illustration #Procreate
Illustration of a child poking out of a chimney, holding a witch's hat, and shouting after a flying broom flying out of the image
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
creativesojung.bsky.social
Happy Samhain! Here’s one from a few years ago 🎃

#KidLitArt
Children’s book style illustration of mum & daughter witches snuggled up on a sofa with hot drinks in their hands. They’re cozy, surrounded by family - a black cat asleep in a pumpkin-shaped house, a ghost playing hide-and-seek, and another black cat trying to catch a spider in a corner. There’s a ghost wearing a mask outside the window.
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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bough.cloud
Ruaa is nearing her goal and could use your boost. 🚀
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October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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paulxhearn.bsky.social
More from the sequence

#collageart #handcut #papercollage #subterraneans
Subterraneans i; collage cut into an Ulla Johnson ad of model in a flowing yellow folksy dress; orange fluoro backing showing through cut-out patches in the magazine page Subterraneans iii; roughly painted paper map of caverns overlaid on a magazine page with a film still of Al Pacino
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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wordkunst.bsky.social
SUBTERRANEANS II by Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

burninghousepress.com/2025/09/26/s...
Subterraneans ii by Paul Hearn
Part-time collagist and amateur bricoleur, Paul has always been infatuated with pop music and comics. Bluesky @paulxhearn.bsky.social
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September 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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sung-il-kim.com
Hello folks,

Blood for the Undying Throne came out today!

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Blood for the Undying Throne
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October 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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bookhive25.bsky.social
HUGE congratulations to @jessjhernandez.bsky.social, Ruymán Hernandez, and @teresamtz.bsky.social for their picture book I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS, which won this honor from the International Latino Book Awards!
Hand holding a medal in a box which reads International Latino Book Awards: Award Winning Author Book cover for I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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ajirving.bsky.social
Thank you, @changinghands.bsky.social! 🩷💜💙

“Explore the word "bi" and its many meanings with little ones who are dipping their toes in the ocean of love and its countless beautiful forms. <3 —B.” #kidlit #booksky www.changinghands.com/page/changin...
October 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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staceybyer.bsky.social
My book Will and Krill is featured on this year’s #SCBWIBookStop! Stop by my page to read more, browse inside, and grab your own copy!

www.scbwi.org/bookstop/boo...
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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michellejingchan.bsky.social
Happy #AceWeek from three aces!!! 💜🖤 🤍 Lily (the main character of my graphic novel!), Em (her nonbinary best friend), and me (the tired author-illustrator drawing them) 😅

SOMEWHERE IN THE GRAY comes out in 2027 from @mackids @fsgyoungreaders, but you can add it on Goodreads now!
October 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ajirving.bsky.social
In this love letter to her family & Chinese culture, @michellejingchan.bsky.social introduces young readers to Dongzhi. I absolutely adore the soft, expressive art, lovely text, & enchanting winter scenes in WEIWEI’S WINTER SOLSTICE! Gorgeous story about family, togetherness, and embracing change!
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM