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Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright
@erindealey.bsky.social
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Following my #Librarian #Teacher #kidlit friends & hoping to figure out this learning curve. Repped by Deborah Warren @eastwestlit -- Blogger of author & illus. #BookBirthdays -- Playwright at Uproar Theatrics erindealey.com -- Happily MARRIED btw--
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Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright @erindealey.bsky.social · May 19
JUST FLOWERS Illus. @k8cosgrove.bsky.social #FlowerDay @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social

"#Kindness can soften the hardest hearts & we miss out when we make snap judgments. A vibrant reminder to look beyond appearances—a lesson that applies to #flowers as well as to people." --KIRKUS
Cover of JUST FLOWERS by Erin Dealey with art--and lots of flowers-- by Kate Cosgrove
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📚❤️🇺🇦 Congrats @choldenko.bsky.social @kaaauthor.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
choldenko.bsky.social Gennifer Choldenko @choldenko.bsky.social · 1d
Here's a bit of hope. We have received an offer to publish DOGTOWN in the Ukraine.

Makes me cry every time I think about it. @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @kaaauthor.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
erindealey.bsky.social
If you wonder what I’ve been doing lately… This has been such fun! And working with smart, talented high school kids gives you so much hope,friends. Opening Night tomorrow night. 🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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k8cosgrove.bsky.social
Bert & Ernie's House
©2025 Cosgrove...
New Art Print in my Etsy shop!!
My homage to Bert & Ernie
#BertandErnie #sesameestreet #fanart #muppets #kidlit #80skid #illustration #artprint #kidlit #kidlitart
: link for my Etsy Shop in bio / Linktree

@eastwestlit.bsky.social
Small plastic Sesame Street toys next to brightly colored Bert & Ernie in their house on Sesame Street under a rainbow next to a colorful modern city surrounded by flowers and a white cat in the garden.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
erindealey.bsky.social
Let the Happy Book Birthday celebratrion continue! We chat with #debut author Lindsey B. Hobson about her new pb, DARK SKIES illus. Makenzie McCarthy (The Little Press) erindealey.com/book-birthda... #stargazing #memoryloss #BookBoost @pbpros.bsky.social
Happy (belated) Book Birthday DARK SKIES = Five Qs with #debut picture book author Lindsey Hobson - Erin Dealey, Children's Author
We chat with Lindsey Hobson about memory loss and light pollution in her new picture book Dark Skies
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November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
erindealey.bsky.social
Since November is #kidlit #PictureBookMonth here are my first two books, which released 20 years ago (!) thanks to the amazing Caitlyn Dlouhy + Aladdin + Atheneum @simonkids.bsky.social Illus. Hanako Wakiyama #Skybrarians @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
erindealey.bsky.social
Congratulations! @senickel.bsky.social BEAR’S BIG IDEA @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social Illus. Il Sung Na
senickel.bsky.social Sandra Nickel 📚 @senickel.bsky.social · 9d
The Crystal Kite Award for Bear’s Big Idea has arrived! Thank you to all of my fellow @scbwi.bsky.social creatives! I am truly touched and honored. 💕 Thank you also to Il Sung Na for his inspired illustrations! 💕 @lernerbooks.bsky.social #picturebooks #award #childrensbook #kidlit #books #booklove
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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BOO!

#fairy #goth #halloween #artist #illustrator #kidlit #kidlitart #nytbestseller
Pink haired me, middle aged white woman, in creepy fairy costume, black wings, black dress, striped cuffs silver star wand.
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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senickel.bsky.social
And that’s a wrap on my book tour! Back home in beautiful Switzerland, where everything is now golden. 🍂🍁
#booktour #backhome #autumn #picturebookauthor #childtensbookaithor #kidlit #switzerland #lavaux
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁

Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨

Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌

“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈
Reading Rainbow revival four episodes on KidZuko on YouTube. Mychal smiles and holds the four books in the stills for each clip. They each have an assortment of views.
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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@mychal3ts.bsky.social and @maggietokudahall.bsky.social so generously shared their book and library wisdom on a panel about book banning with @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social and I to launch our book just days before this visit cancellation.

Grateful for our bookish community!
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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priscillag.bsky.social
Marvelous drawings of a traffic jam
and that rain-heavy sky
and so many looking away,
as a kitten crosses traffic.
But someone...
_screeech!_

A meditation
a provocation
a call to be late...

just in time.

I kept thinking,
"We're all this kitten."

👍🏼📚

@ebyrbooks.bsky.social
Cover of the picture book Late Today by Jungyoon Huh, illustrated by Myungae Lee, translated by Aerin Park. A black kitten sits under a car in the rain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223924760-late-today?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zdqP0ZT9bw&rank=1
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Re-posting this review with 📚👍🏼 to make the Kidlit Boosters feed!
priscillag.bsky.social Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 14d
Marvelous drawings of a traffic jam
and that rain-heavy sky
and so many looking away,
as a kitten crosses traffic.
But someone...
_screeech!_

A meditation
a provocation
a call to be late...

just in time.

I kept thinking,
"We're all this kitten."

👍🏼📚

@ebyrbooks.bsky.social
Cover of the picture book Late Today by Jungyoon Huh, illustrated by Myungae Lee, translated by Aerin Park. A black kitten sits under a car in the rain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223924760-late-today?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zdqP0ZT9bw&rank=1
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🎃 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
©2025 Cosgrove
Halloween week drawing…decided to do a Sabrina sketch
#kidlit #blackcat #noai #witch #halloween #pencil #comics #archiecomics #childrensbooks #sabrinatheteenagewitchedit #kidlitart #mg #graphicnovel #ya

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B/w pencil drawing of Sabrina the teenage witch and her black cat on a witches broom under the moon. Next to drawing us an orange glass jackolantern and two fun size reeses pb cups
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Congrats @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social —to Illus. Jade vs. The Claw Machine by Margaret Chiu Greanias, @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
as announced in @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social #KidlitMegaFeed #Skybrarians
October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"I can’t say enough about this beautiful book, my friends.
Read it. Share it." —@erindealey.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Happy Book Birthday to LATE TODAY + 9 Qs with author Jungyoon Huh erindealey.com/book-birthda...
@ebyrbooks.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social #Skybrarians
translated by Aerin Park, illus. Myungae Lee -- a gorgeous #picturebook which asks: Are you ever too busy to be kind? #edusky #kidlit
Happy Book Birthday to LATE TODAY + 9 Qs with author Jungyoon Huh - Erin Dealey, Children's Author
9 Questions with author Jungyoon Huh about the English publication of Late Today - translated by Aerin Park.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet©2025 Cosgrove

What are you gonna be for Halloween this year? 🖤🧡🖤🧡🎃🎃🎃🎃

#humandrawing #kidlit #bunny #noai #dressup #trickortreat #childrensbooks #kidlitart #halloween #spooky #scary #costume #pumpkin #candycorn
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Halloween illustration in dark gem colors. A jack-o’-lantern carved into a house for a squirrel, hands out candy to tiny animal trick or treaters… bat dressed as dino, mouse dressed as alligator, caterpillar dressed as fish. Under the moon and some twinkle lights of candy corn.
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Huzzah!

Also, YES, and....

#Theater #Improv
kdubaygillis.bsky.social Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social · 16d
Found a local cortisol level reduction solution: attending a local improv theatre. Supporting local arts community while laughing so hard my cheek muscles ached. Highly recommend.
October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Just had a fun Google Meet with DEAR EARTH...FROM YOUR FRIENDS IN ROOM 5 --illus @lupencita.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social
--and Mrs. Lopez' third grade Earth Heroes from Pinesprings Prep in Holly Springs, North Carolina. #Skybrarians
> #Writing is a Language #Art!<
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Coming in March from @redcometpress and already with a #StarredReview BARBED WIRE BETWEEN US by @pragmaticmom.bsky.social is a “significant portrayal of ongoing US civil rights violations, exposed through the experiences of young children" www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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dowphumiruk.bsky.social
Thank you so much for this interview about creating art for our new book! 😊🌷
October 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Dow Phumiruk: “a storyboard is typically meant for the artist’s eyes only.It’s very, very loose & serves as an outline for composition & layout as we create the mockup. I don’t send these to the publishing team! But here it is for you.” #kidlit @dowphumiruk.bsky.social erindealey.com/book-birthda...
Happy Book Birthday to Ruby Maps her World by Jane Yolen + 6 Qs with award-winning illustrator Dow Phumiruk! - Erin Dealey, Children's Author
Happy Book Birthday to Ruby Maps her World by Jane Yolen + 6 Qs with award-winning illustrator Dow Phumiruk.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Thank you @BookstrOfficial for the interview: "Stan Yan on Comic Tales Where Misfortune Sparks Growth" at bookstr.com/article/...

@SimonKids
@TheTobiasAgency
September 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Book Reivew: DUDE. BE NICE. by Sarah Scheerger
Illus. Alex MacNaughton / Flamingo Books
@eastwestlit.bsky.social

*****Heads up #teachers #parenting #Skybrarians #therapists Because the world could use a whole lot more NICE these days, right? #KidlitMegaFeed
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Imagine my surprise (and delight) when our plane landed at SMF and I saw that Mychal Threets was sitting behind us. Did I fan-geek? Oh yes I did. 🤪🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟#TLSky #Skybrarians #kidlitmegafeed
tljamesa.com James Allen @tljamesa.com · 24d
Library Joy in a human being. Thank you Mychal Threets for your work, for celebrating libraries, and for staying one more day 💙💙💙 Thank you @aaslala.bsky.social for making this visit possible. #ReadingRainbow #AASL25 #libraryJOY #libraries #MentalHealth #TLsky
Messy sketchnote of Mychal Threets talk
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM