Nicole Castrovinci
@nicolecastrovinci.bsky.social
#PB Writer, book devourer, coffee drinker. Out now - THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (Clavis). Out winter 2026-SNOWBALLED (Familius). Repped by @d4eo. #scbwi #kidlitsky
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Hey Library Kids & Book Lovers, This Knit Vest Pattern Is For You - It's A Borrowing Card! 👉 tidd.ly/4fIdLOv - designed by Jennifer Peacock of Pretty Grandpa and would make a perfect gift for the Gen-Xer on your list! #knitting #GenX #librarylove #handmade #etsy #affiliate #giftidea 📚❤️🧶
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hey Library Kids & Book Lovers, This Knit Vest Pattern Is For You - It's A Borrowing Card! 👉 tidd.ly/4fIdLOv - designed by Jennifer Peacock of Pretty Grandpa and would make a perfect gift for the Gen-Xer on your list! #knitting #GenX #librarylove #handmade #etsy #affiliate #giftidea 📚❤️🧶
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
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14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
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It's a WHODONUT storytime in Columbus, OH this Saturday afternoon at @covertocover.bsky.social! Will there be donuts? You'll have to join me to find out!
#kidlit #booksky #reading #whodonut #storytime
#kidlit #booksky #reading #whodonut #storytime
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It's a WHODONUT storytime in Columbus, OH this Saturday afternoon at @covertocover.bsky.social! Will there be donuts? You'll have to join me to find out!
#kidlit #booksky #reading #whodonut #storytime
#kidlit #booksky #reading #whodonut #storytime
As if getting published isn’t hard enough, I recently received a response from a publisher regarding my #pb ms that they are looking for not one but TWO hooks in the stories they acquire. 😫 #amquerying #amwriting #kidlitsky
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As if getting published isn’t hard enough, I recently received a response from a publisher regarding my #pb ms that they are looking for not one but TWO hooks in the stories they acquire. 😫 #amquerying #amwriting #kidlitsky
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🧪This Saturday is #NationalSTEMDay!
Celebrate science & silliness with So Much Slime, the companion book to Too Much Glue!
When Matty’s slime experiment goes wild, things get sticky fast.
Includes a DIY slime recipe! flashlightpress.com/so-much-slime/
@ipgbook.bsky.social #STEM #STEMforkids
Celebrate science & silliness with So Much Slime, the companion book to Too Much Glue!
When Matty’s slime experiment goes wild, things get sticky fast.
Includes a DIY slime recipe! flashlightpress.com/so-much-slime/
@ipgbook.bsky.social #STEM #STEMforkids
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧪This Saturday is #NationalSTEMDay!
Celebrate science & silliness with So Much Slime, the companion book to Too Much Glue!
When Matty’s slime experiment goes wild, things get sticky fast.
Includes a DIY slime recipe! flashlightpress.com/so-much-slime/
@ipgbook.bsky.social #STEM #STEMforkids
Celebrate science & silliness with So Much Slime, the companion book to Too Much Glue!
When Matty’s slime experiment goes wild, things get sticky fast.
Includes a DIY slime recipe! flashlightpress.com/so-much-slime/
@ipgbook.bsky.social #STEM #STEMforkids
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Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
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This Land is a Lullaby by Tonya Simpson illus Delreé Dumont won the GG Award!! Hooray! This eloquent picture book honors the enduring relationship between a child, their ancestors and the land. Here’s my ⭐Booklist #bookreview: tinyurl.com/y56dbsh8 #KidLit #CanKidLit 📚👍 @orcabook.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Land is a Lullaby by Tonya Simpson illus Delreé Dumont won the GG Award!! Hooray! This eloquent picture book honors the enduring relationship between a child, their ancestors and the land. Here’s my ⭐Booklist #bookreview: tinyurl.com/y56dbsh8 #KidLit #CanKidLit 📚👍 @orcabook.bsky.social
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Join me along with your 4th-8th grader for my interactive drawing workshop at #BooksAreAwesome this Saturday, November 7th from NOON to 2 pm. Seating is limited, so make sure to register for this FREE event.
https://bit.ly/3WGjHzK
https://bit.ly/3WGjHzK
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join me along with your 4th-8th grader for my interactive drawing workshop at #BooksAreAwesome this Saturday, November 7th from NOON to 2 pm. Seating is limited, so make sure to register for this FREE event.
https://bit.ly/3WGjHzK
https://bit.ly/3WGjHzK
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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Mark your calendars! Next weekend @nancygoulet.bsky.social and I will be reading and signing at @whitelambooks.bsky.social in *Reading* MA! Join us on Saturday, 11/8 at 3pm!
#booksky #kidlit #picturebooks #vroombabydriverzoom #whodonut
#booksky #kidlit #picturebooks #vroombabydriverzoom #whodonut
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Mark your calendars! Next weekend @nancygoulet.bsky.social and I will be reading and signing at @whitelambooks.bsky.social in *Reading* MA! Join us on Saturday, 11/8 at 3pm!
#booksky #kidlit #picturebooks #vroombabydriverzoom #whodonut
#booksky #kidlit #picturebooks #vroombabydriverzoom #whodonut
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"What if bedtime was scarier without monsters under the bed?" 👀
5th grade teacher RamonaRecommends calls I Need My Monster the ultimate October read aloud! 🎃
Perfect for spooky readings, crafts + monster fun! 👻
flashlightpress.com/ineedmymonst...
@ipgbook.bsky.social #halloween #OctoberBooks
5th grade teacher RamonaRecommends calls I Need My Monster the ultimate October read aloud! 🎃
Perfect for spooky readings, crafts + monster fun! 👻
flashlightpress.com/ineedmymonst...
@ipgbook.bsky.social #halloween #OctoberBooks
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"What if bedtime was scarier without monsters under the bed?" 👀
5th grade teacher RamonaRecommends calls I Need My Monster the ultimate October read aloud! 🎃
Perfect for spooky readings, crafts + monster fun! 👻
flashlightpress.com/ineedmymonst...
@ipgbook.bsky.social #halloween #OctoberBooks
5th grade teacher RamonaRecommends calls I Need My Monster the ultimate October read aloud! 🎃
Perfect for spooky readings, crafts + monster fun! 👻
flashlightpress.com/ineedmymonst...
@ipgbook.bsky.social #halloween #OctoberBooks
Next read is a crime novel set in the south. What are you reading? #amreading #booksky
October 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Next read is a crime novel set in the south. What are you reading? #amreading #booksky
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My 18 yo artist painted this pumpkin #Twilight #TeamEdward
October 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My 18 yo artist painted this pumpkin #Twilight #TeamEdward
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October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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If you're ready to get serious about writing for children, here's a great opportunity! Application window for the
@SCBWIRockyMtn 2026 mentor program is open til 11/3.
I'm excited to be on the mentor list again this year!
Here's the link: www.scbwi.org/region...
@SCBWIRockyMtn 2026 mentor program is open til 11/3.
I'm excited to be on the mentor list again this year!
Here's the link: www.scbwi.org/region...
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you're ready to get serious about writing for children, here's a great opportunity! Application window for the
@SCBWIRockyMtn 2026 mentor program is open til 11/3.
I'm excited to be on the mentor list again this year!
Here's the link: www.scbwi.org/region...
@SCBWIRockyMtn 2026 mentor program is open til 11/3.
I'm excited to be on the mentor list again this year!
Here's the link: www.scbwi.org/region...
I just started this one but I can tell I’m going to ❤️ it. What are you reading? #BookSky #amreading
October 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I just started this one but I can tell I’m going to ❤️ it. What are you reading? #BookSky #amreading
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Can’t wait to meet everyone @anunlikelystory.bsky.social bookstore tomorrow, 9/27, 4pm! 111 South Street, Plainville, MA. Get tickets here! www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-marc-j-...
September 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Can’t wait to meet everyone @anunlikelystory.bsky.social bookstore tomorrow, 9/27, 4pm! 111 South Street, Plainville, MA. Get tickets here! www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-marc-j-...
I never post politics but I feel like the wolf is at our door. PLEASE #NJ if you support science, education, women’s rights, clean water & air, civil rights, health care, religious freedom & basic common sense, #VOTEBLUE2025 He is trying to get his claws in NJ & we CANNOT let him. #MikieSherrill
September 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I never post politics but I feel like the wolf is at our door. PLEASE #NJ if you support science, education, women’s rights, clean water & air, civil rights, health care, religious freedom & basic common sense, #VOTEBLUE2025 He is trying to get his claws in NJ & we CANNOT let him. #MikieSherrill
A critter - I’m assuming a #squirrel - buried a 🎃 seed in a random spot in the 🌺 patch in our front yard & it’s growing better than anything I have ever planted in the 17 yrs that I’ve been here. 😆 #gardening
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A critter - I’m assuming a #squirrel - buried a 🎃 seed in a random spot in the 🌺 patch in our front yard & it’s growing better than anything I have ever planted in the 17 yrs that I’ve been here. 😆 #gardening