Meridth McKean Gimbel
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Meridth McKean Gimbel
@hellomeridth.bsky.social
🌟Award winning writer & artist
🗣️they/them/elle
🧳Rep: Allie Levick at Writers House
📕GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS 2028 🏳️‍⚧️
🕸️ https://linktr.ee/Meridth
🧦 Here to steal your left sock
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Hi! 👋 I’m Alexandra Thompson, Maine based author & illustrator. I’m currently working on a few new manuscripts, but always on the lookout for a great story filled with heart and humor to bring to life. 🎨 #kidlitartpostcard

Rep’d by the wonderful Hannah Mann at Writers House.
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Hello lovelies! Posting my #KidLitArtPostcard from me and my ornament eating rescue dog, Artichoke. Hope you all have a jolly holiday! >woof woof!< 💚❤️

🎄I illustrate & write stories for PB & MG, fiction & NF, & GNs
🎄Website: www.MeridthSaysHello.com
🎄Agent: @AllieLevick at Writers House
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Rescue dogs are so wonderful and cute, even when they chomp on your ornaments ❤️
Hello lovelies! Posting my #KidLitArtPostcard from me and my ornament eating rescue dog, Artichoke. Hope you all have a jolly holiday! >woof woof!< 💚❤️

🎄I illustrate & write stories for PB & MG, fiction & NF, & GNs
🎄Website: www.MeridthSaysHello.com
🎄Agent: @AllieLevick at Writers House
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Last #KidLitArtPostcard of the year! 🎄

Hello Art Directors, I’m DeAndra and I’m looking for work in picture books, chapter books, YA covers and general illustration projects!

Find more of my work at www.deandrahodge.com

Rep’d by Christy Tugeau Ewers at The CAT Agency, Inc.
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!

I’m an author-illustrator who enjoys creating stories about moments- big and small. You can see more of my work at diandramae.com. I am currently seeking representation. 🎨

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day to all who celebrate. I'm an author and illustrator rep'd by @jenrofe.bsky.social of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social.

✨ My Work: www.twofishillustration.com

This image is from the forthcoming Whirby (by @mollyharris.bsky.social, HarperCollins Feb '26). Proud!
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard. I'm Steph, an author-illustrator of PBs & GNs. My debut picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer (Penguin Workshop) came out last month!

❄️Likes stories with misfits and mischief
🩰Used to be a pastry chef
🦄Loves ice cream

Rep @allielevick.bsky.social
www.stephlaubooks.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hello lovelies! Posting my #KidLitArtPostcard from me and my ornament eating rescue dog, Artichoke. Hope you all have a jolly holiday! >woof woof!< 💚❤️

🎄I illustrate & write stories for PB & MG, fiction & NF, & GNs
🎄Website: www.MeridthSaysHello.com
🎄Agent: @AllieLevick at Writers House
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I have been researching biographies of historical trans figures for my book GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS (@harperkids 2028) for 2.5 years now. (My bibliography is around 10 pages long!)
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November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hello lovelies! It’s #kidlitpostcard day! Sharing an illo I did of #BillyTipton for the pitch packet of GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS (out in winter 2028). Who knows what the illos will look like by then but I’m delighted I get 2 spend the little while geeking out about historical #trans figures
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hey there Halloweenies! I’m neck deep in edits, so posting an illo from our hallowed past. Here’s to a hauntingly good day. 💀🍁

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #picturebookillustration #itsfall #skeleton #graveyard #halloween #meridthmckeangimbel
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?

Reply below with info + link to the post.

Only for books launching Oct.27-Nov.2, 2025 #2025-Wk44.
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It’s officially official!!! Courtney Stevenson @harpercollins has bought my book GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS!!! (To be released winter 2028.) Eeeeeee!!!! 👀

#kidlit #middlegradebooks #HistoryNerd
#GettingToKnowYourTranscestors #Transcestors #TransHistory
October 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Hi #portfolioday! I’m Kris Easler, a #kidlitillustrator based in Minnesota who is looking for work in picture through middle grade books.

Check out more of my work at www.kriseasler.com
Repd by @jenrofe.bsky.social of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The so-called Department of War has banned nearly 600 books this year from military bases or schools. They’ve targeted books that “promote gender idealogy” or “DEI.” Not surprisingly my book, DOOR BY DOOR (written by Meeg Pincus, illustrated by me) is one of those banned books. 1/
#BannedBookWeek
October 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🍁 Hello friends! I’m joining #kidlitpostcard a wee bit late (I’m on deadline) but had to post something cuz this is my fav time of year. (Hooray for crunchy leaves & pumpkin spice!) I’m rep’d by @allielevick.bsky.social at Writers House. For more work visit my website at www.MeridthSaysHello.com 🍂
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Art Directors, Editors, Designers:
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
Portfolio: dianadelosh.com
Represented by @lynnettenovak.bsky.social of The Seymour Agency.
#kidlitartpostcard #kidlitart #illustrator #illustration #kidlit
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard tricksters! 👻

Book projects? Email my lovely agent, @marchsoloway.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social.

www.kalyquarles.com

Scene from The Zombees, written by @justincolonbooks.bsky.social and illustrated by yours truly. Out now!

#halloween #picturebook #spooky
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Some takeaways from ABC/Disney backtracking on Kimmel:
1) Corps only care about $$
SCOTUS says money is speech. So use your voice! Boycotts work. Collective action works!
2) A huge amount of energy went into helping Kimmel. We need that same energy for book bans & attacks on marginalized creators.
September 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m heartbroken but not surprised that people are calling for my &Meeg’s bio of Sarah McBride 2be destroyed. Book bans are a prime tool of fascism

It’s why we need 2 support LGBTQ+ books-which are overwhelmingly targeted in book bans. Buy them, positively review them, check them out in the library!
6. Another, Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America’s First Transgender Senator, is a simple political biography, which one challenger states “should be removed and destroyed.”
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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9. Submit written letters to the Alabama Public Library Service directly, request to speak at the September 18th or October 21 hearing in Montgomery, or use Read Free Alabama’s tool to automatically send a pre-written letter to the board.

aplsws2.apls.state.al.us/publications...
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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8. The fight over Alabama’s library codes is not going unchallenged. Groups like the Alabama Transgender Rights Action Coalition and Read Free Alabama are mobilizing against the proposed restrictions. They’ve laid out clear steps for residents who want to resist.
Tell the Alabama Public Library Services Board: Reject the Proposed Administrative Code Amendment
Supporting the Right to Read in All Alabama Libraries
www.readfreelyalabama.org
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake.

The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.

The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.

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"Positive Depictions" Of Trans People Banned In Alabama State Libraries Proposal
The code change that has been proposed does not ban negative depictions of transgender people, however. Public comment is open until October 14.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM