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Kooky Chooky Amy
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Taiwanese-Australian illustrator 🐣 SCBWI member. Scholastic Art Mentorship 2023 mentee. Little Hare Illo Prize shortlistee. Part time doctor 🩺 Rep'd by Chrissie Boehm (Artful Doodlers). Booked til mid-2026!
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Kooky Chooky Amy @kookychooky.bsky.social · Apr 10
Amigo is quite the PART-TAY animal and has travelled to the Bologna Children's Book Fair to meet new friends!! If you're keen to meet him, you can also find him here...

USA:
Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/amigo-the-...
Thrift Books (pre-order): www.thriftbooks.com/w/amigo-the-...
Illustration of a happy capybara with a party hat singing into a microphone sitting in a teal plane in the clouds piloted by a pink grumpy chinchilla. There is confetti thrown in the air and a leaping frog with a party hat above the capybara.
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So... I just found out publication day for Did You Say DOG BEACH DAY?! is May 5th next year. Can't wait!! #KidLitArt #ChildrensBookIllustration #Dogs
Hand drawn illustrations of a red-brown dog in three different poses, a chocolate colored Great Dane with a party hat, and a shaggy dog with a red bow on its head doing a sneaky wee on a blue-grey rock on the beach
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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It's real! Too Busy For Bed! Was a labor of love that the author has been working on for the past 25 years 🥰 Very happy to have helped him bring his fun and clever story to life! #kidlitart #newbook #childrensbook
Photo of a stack of books with one hardcover book standing open at the top of the pile. The book cover is of a toddler girl in pigtails in her pajamas with toys around her
September 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Playing with Procreate again after a good year or more away from it! #kidlitart
Illustration of a scruffy black haired toddler girl sitting on the floor holding a green paper mache dinosaur with craft supplies all around her
June 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Agar Art!! How cool is this?! 🦠 asm.org/events/asm-a...
ASM Agar Art Contest | Overview
Have you ever seen art created in a petri dish using living, growing microorganisms? That's agar art! ASM's annual Agar Art Contest is a chance for you to use science to show off your creative skills.
asm.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Behind the scenes for a cleverly written bedtime book.. Too Busy For Bed! Have handed in final artwork and it's getting print ready!! #kidlitart #comingsoon
June 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Nearly 80 dogs need to be in this next picture book I'm working on. I've done 20. Wish me luck!! 🐶
May 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Never been asked to draw a thimble before.. there's always a first for everything!! #kidlitart #characterdesign
Pencil drawings of a cartoon light silver thimble with green oval gems at the bottom border in various poses as a character sheet. The thimble is sitting down crocheting with a ball of orange yarn on a peach background to the left. There are 4 poses of the thimble to the right from top left clockwise where it looks scared, is carrying a tray with a needle, looking indignant with hands on hips, and charging with a raised sword and riding a yellow pencil.
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I don't understand China's obsession w/ "reuniting" w/ Taiwan. It's as absurd as Great Britain insisting that the US needs to "reunite" because some English folk set up camp there once & stayed. The indigenous people originally occupied Taiwan, then the Dutch, Spaniards & Japanese came later.
May 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Thank you for your bravery, sacrifice, and service 💔 #KidLitArt #AnzacDay
Illustration of a grey koala with a bowed head kneeling in front of an Army hat in a wreath of red poppies
April 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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This is the 2nd prompt for #OurPlanetWeek called Touch the Air. Probably my last one for the challenge as I'm bogged down with work but it was fun to be able to play in my sketchbook for a bit! #KidLitArt #Sketchbook
Illustration of a brown haired pigtailed toddler girl being held up and swung around in the air. There are a few loose leaves swirling around her.
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Sketchbook doodles for the Our Planet Week challenge happening on Instagram. This is for the first prompt "Touch the ground". #KidLitArt #OurPlanetWeek2025 #sketchbook
Closeup of an illustrated young toddler with brown pigtails sitting on orange dirt with legs splayed open and arms touching the ground between the legs. There is a chick at the bottom corner of the illustration facing the young girl.
April 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Amigo is quite the PART-TAY animal and has travelled to the Bologna Children's Book Fair to meet new friends!! If you're keen to meet him, you can also find him here...

USA:
Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/amigo-the-...
Thrift Books (pre-order): www.thriftbooks.com/w/amigo-the-...
Illustration of a happy capybara with a party hat singing into a microphone sitting in a teal plane in the clouds piloted by a pink grumpy chinchilla. There is confetti thrown in the air and a leaping frog with a party hat above the capybara.
April 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Did anyone get up to some good pranks on April Fools? I made my kid cry when I pranked her😬 Replaced her jam cookie filling with sweet and sour sauce. Thought that would gross her out. Turns out, her friend asked for it and she gave it to her instead. My kid is upset she's a bad friend now...
April 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Fan art, yay. AI stealing, BOOOOOO😡. This was an oldie from an Instagram challenge called Ghibli Week a while back. I don't know how to navigate this new AI world anymore. 😕 #FanArt #Ghibli #Totoro
A little girl with pigtails in a red dress and shoes lying on top of a large grey fuzzy bear like creature called Totoro in a green forest scene
March 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Every time I see a post that has an AI rendered Ghibli style photo, a little bit of me dies inside 😭
March 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Drawing sleeping characters is making me sleepy 😴 #KidLitArt #BehindTheScenes #CharacterDesign
Photo of a paper cutout of an illustrated girl's head and arms peeking out from a blanket. She has dark hair in low pigtails and is sleeping.
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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When you sit down to draw and your reference material is a whole feed full of your friends' dogs.. #bestjobever #KidLitArt
Hand drawn illustration of a standing chocolate brown great dane with a yellow party hat with orange stripes and an orange pom pom on its head
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Beautiful work by @jusabar.bsky.social 🩷
jusabar.bsky.social Juliana Salcedo @jusabar.bsky.social · Mar 5
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

I'm Juliana, a kidlit illustrator based in Spain. I work in picture books and first readers. My latest book 'Miel' has just been published. I'm repped by @agenthawk.bsky.social .

Portfolio: www.jusabar.net
#kidlit
A little girl arrives to her favourite shop to get some honey. The shopkeeper is with her cat, sitting on a bench as she talks to the girl. The cat stares at a butterfly.
March 6, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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QRP with fanart 🤩
This was an oldie I made for my kidlets. #disneyfanart
March 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Hooray for #KidLitArtPostcard day!! Best feed day!!

Hello! I'm Amy & I draw cute things that I observe in daily life 🙃 I'd love to find myself a new agent - my current one has been instrumental in getting me started on this #KidLitArt journey but is retiring 😭 www.kookychooky.com is my website!
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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This is why I STILL have issues going near the fish section in pet shops.. #childhoodillustated #KidLitArt #sketchbook
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Does anyone else do this? See something on your feed, go click on it to see more beautiful art from the artist and get ready to follow them... only to see that you are ALREADY following them? Or is it just me and my scatterbrain? 👀
February 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Character sketching for a new project about dogs. This little guy is a bit like me right now. I want the madness in the world to stop but can't look away as headlines read more and more like something from The Onion every day. How is everyone else coping? #KidLitArt #CharacterDesign #Sketching
February 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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kbpaperstories.bsky.social Kim Barnes @kbpaperstories.bsky.social · Feb 7
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
My name is Kim Barnes and I am an author/illustrator.
I work in collage and diorama .
#kidlitart #kidlitartpostcard #illustration #kidlit
February 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Piecing things together for my current book project. It's something special that the author has been developing for a while now. Can't wait to bring his vision to life soon! #KidLitArt #Childrensbookart #characterdesign
Photo of 5 cheeky illustrated cute yellow orange monkeys in exuberant jumping poses on a white background
February 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM