Priscilla Gilman
@priscillag.bsky.social
Disabled writer 💪🏼
Artist 🖌️
Kidlit devotee 📚
Geek 📡
she/her
Rep’d by: ✨Emily Keyes✨
@esckeyes.bsky.social
👉🏻 http://priscillagilman.net 👈🏻
Artist 🖌️
Kidlit devotee 📚
Geek 📡
she/her
Rep’d by: ✨Emily Keyes✨
@esckeyes.bsky.social
👉🏻 http://priscillagilman.net 👈🏻
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Priscilla Gilman
@priscillag.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Hey #kidlit community! I write PB & MG, fiction & NF. All for creativity, play, intimacy, curiosity. I ❤️ writing about the natural world but have recently gotten geeky with tech STEM projects. Writing kept me alive through decades home in bed fr chronic illness. Aiming for pub, committed regardless.
✨The magical mind of @carolynfisher.bsky.social
has turned measuring (& its arbitrary conventions)
into delight and play.✨
🐋 So freakin' clever. 🦕
Plus, AWESOME backmatter:
There IS a 1 cm species of centipede! (I was skeptical.)
And I love donkey power! (Units!)
📚👍🏼
@kidscanpress.bsky.social
has turned measuring (& its arbitrary conventions)
into delight and play.✨
🐋 So freakin' clever. 🦕
Plus, AWESOME backmatter:
There IS a 1 cm species of centipede! (I was skeptical.)
And I love donkey power! (Units!)
📚👍🏼
@kidscanpress.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
✨The magical mind of @carolynfisher.bsky.social
has turned measuring (& its arbitrary conventions)
into delight and play.✨
🐋 So freakin' clever. 🦕
Plus, AWESOME backmatter:
There IS a 1 cm species of centipede! (I was skeptical.)
And I love donkey power! (Units!)
📚👍🏼
@kidscanpress.bsky.social
has turned measuring (& its arbitrary conventions)
into delight and play.✨
🐋 So freakin' clever. 🦕
Plus, AWESOME backmatter:
There IS a 1 cm species of centipede! (I was skeptical.)
And I love donkey power! (Units!)
📚👍🏼
@kidscanpress.bsky.social
Re-posting this review with 📚👍🏼 to make the Kidlit Boosters feed!
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
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
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Re-posting this review with 📚👍🏼 to make the Kidlit Boosters feed!
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
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
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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
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
🌙 👽 So gentle and wise, this one. And funny. 👽 🌙
My 7-yo niece says it's "one of the best books ever." And repeats and repeats the title with dramatic glee.
We Are _Definitely_ Human by X. Fang
is definitely delightful.
May quiet books rule again. 📚👍
TY Tundra Books!
My 7-yo niece says it's "one of the best books ever." And repeats and repeats the title with dramatic glee.
We Are _Definitely_ Human by X. Fang
is definitely delightful.
May quiet books rule again. 📚👍
TY Tundra Books!
October 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🌙 👽 So gentle and wise, this one. And funny. 👽 🌙
My 7-yo niece says it's "one of the best books ever." And repeats and repeats the title with dramatic glee.
We Are _Definitely_ Human by X. Fang
is definitely delightful.
May quiet books rule again. 📚👍
TY Tundra Books!
My 7-yo niece says it's "one of the best books ever." And repeats and repeats the title with dramatic glee.
We Are _Definitely_ Human by X. Fang
is definitely delightful.
May quiet books rule again. 📚👍
TY Tundra Books!
October 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🌊🚢 Gold belt chains, hidden bombs, and deadly fires. Find fascinating shipwrecks in these luminous spreads with beautifully balanced lyrical and informational text. 🫶🏼🚢 🌊
Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social
📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera
Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social
📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
🌊🚢 Gold belt chains, hidden bombs, and deadly fires. Find fascinating shipwrecks in these luminous spreads with beautifully balanced lyrical and informational text. 🫶🏼🚢 🌊
Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social
📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera
Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social
📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera
🧙🧙 I adore the emotional arc in This Year, a Witch! 📚👍🏼
This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get.
She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕
This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get.
She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕
September 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
🧙🧙 I adore the emotional arc in This Year, a Witch! 📚👍🏼
This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get.
She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕
This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get.
She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕
All things bright and beautiful! 🩷🧡💛🩵💜
Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day!
I'm Emma Jayne a full time illustrator and lover of all things travel, nature, history, transport, cultures and colour!
I'm passionate about nonfiction and would love to work on any BB, PB and children's magazines.
🎨 bit.ly/3Qsabxx
📨 emma@emmajayne-designs.co.uk
I'm Emma Jayne a full time illustrator and lover of all things travel, nature, history, transport, cultures and colour!
I'm passionate about nonfiction and would love to work on any BB, PB and children's magazines.
🎨 bit.ly/3Qsabxx
📨 emma@emmajayne-designs.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
All things bright and beautiful! 🩷🧡💛🩵💜
🐋🐋 What a book! 🐋🐋
This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼
From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️
and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️
This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼
From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️
and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️
September 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🐋🐋 What a book! 🐋🐋
This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼
From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️
and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️
This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼
From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️
and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️
🐞🌿🧠 After a brief hiatus for budget reasons, I just rejoined @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social's Reimagine Insiders community.
Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖
writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders
Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖
writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders
Reimagine Insiders
writers.kirstenwlarson.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🐞🌿🧠 After a brief hiatus for budget reasons, I just rejoined @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social's Reimagine Insiders community.
Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖
writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders
Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖
writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders
Working class occupations are sooooo underrepresented in #Kidlit. More of this please!
@jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
@jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Working class occupations are sooooo underrepresented in #Kidlit. More of this please!
@jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
@jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
Yay! So excited for this one! The world needs it!
🎉COVER REVEAL!!🎉
We are thrilled to share this gorgeous cover!
GO PLAY will be released by @broadleafbooks.bsky.social on April 14, 2026!
Thank you to our editor Lisa Kloskin, our book’s agent @literarylesliez.bsky.social and the cover designer Angie Chiu.
We are thrilled to share this gorgeous cover!
GO PLAY will be released by @broadleafbooks.bsky.social on April 14, 2026!
Thank you to our editor Lisa Kloskin, our book’s agent @literarylesliez.bsky.social and the cover designer Angie Chiu.
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Yay! So excited for this one! The world needs it!
This work! It is so everything. Beautiful, painful, sharp, sly, but most of all--beautiful. I've just requested every Zahra Marwan book available to me on interlibrary loan. #kidlitartpostcard
Hello #kidlitartpostcard
I write and illustrate books on migration, statelessness, war, art, friendship, and often a deep love of the Middle East and it's intricacies.
zahramarwan.com
I write and illustrate books on migration, statelessness, war, art, friendship, and often a deep love of the Middle East and it's intricacies.
zahramarwan.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This work! It is so everything. Beautiful, painful, sharp, sly, but most of all--beautiful. I've just requested every Zahra Marwan book available to me on interlibrary loan. #kidlitartpostcard
Totally marvelous! #kidlitartpostcard
Who’s up for a mystery? I am! Happy #kidlitartpostcard day, ADs & editors! I’d love to solve a riddle with you. Available for PBs & BBs. Repped by @jenrofe.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social Let’s work together! www.DanamarieHosler.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Totally marvelous! #kidlitartpostcard
🤗 I. Was. This. Kid. 🤗
I wanted to write a PB on this but never found the story. @jashar.bsky.social did it--charmingly.
But ignore the promo copy. It's not a "surprising celebration of community helpers". No, no, it's about loving the--
well... you'll see.
📚👍🏼
I wanted to write a PB on this but never found the story. @jashar.bsky.social did it--charmingly.
But ignore the promo copy. It's not a "surprising celebration of community helpers". No, no, it's about loving the--
well... you'll see.
📚👍🏼
June 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
🤗 I. Was. This. Kid. 🤗
I wanted to write a PB on this but never found the story. @jashar.bsky.social did it--charmingly.
But ignore the promo copy. It's not a "surprising celebration of community helpers". No, no, it's about loving the--
well... you'll see.
📚👍🏼
I wanted to write a PB on this but never found the story. @jashar.bsky.social did it--charmingly.
But ignore the promo copy. It's not a "surprising celebration of community helpers". No, no, it's about loving the--
well... you'll see.
📚👍🏼
I ❤️💚💜
🌋🌋🌋Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland
by Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social
Every little bit is playful! I love the authorial asides and the hunt for the one detail that is not true--a wonderful way to make this fantastical (but real) story extra believable.
#PB #NF 📚👍🏼
🌋🌋🌋Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland
by Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social
Every little bit is playful! I love the authorial asides and the hunt for the one detail that is not true--a wonderful way to make this fantastical (but real) story extra believable.
#PB #NF 📚👍🏼
May 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I ❤️💚💜
🌋🌋🌋Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland
by Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social
Every little bit is playful! I love the authorial asides and the hunt for the one detail that is not true--a wonderful way to make this fantastical (but real) story extra believable.
#PB #NF 📚👍🏼
🌋🌋🌋Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland
by Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social
Every little bit is playful! I love the authorial asides and the hunt for the one detail that is not true--a wonderful way to make this fantastical (but real) story extra believable.
#PB #NF 📚👍🏼
Who can possibly resist this big-hearted, spunky elf?
And when have Christmas colors
ever been so soft and fresh? 💚💞💜
#KidLit
And when have Christmas colors
ever been so soft and fresh? 💚💞💜
#KidLit
May 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Who can possibly resist this big-hearted, spunky elf?
And when have Christmas colors
ever been so soft and fresh? 💚💞💜
#KidLit
And when have Christmas colors
ever been so soft and fresh? 💚💞💜
#KidLit
Great anti generative-AI statement from developmental editor @juliescheina.com. I see enough prominent folks in the #KidlitCommunity softening to AI that I am extra glad for every clear NO.
May 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Great anti generative-AI statement from developmental editor @juliescheina.com. I see enough prominent folks in the #KidlitCommunity softening to AI that I am extra glad for every clear NO.
The wonderful whimsy of Spring.
May 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The wonderful whimsy of Spring.
There's a whole summer story in this #KidLitArtPostcard.
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
I’m Cindy Kang, a Korean illustrator based in New York. I love illustrating atmospheric scenes and am currently open to new picture book projects!
📌 cindysykang.com/childrens
📚 Rep’d by @mccarthylit.com
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator
I’m Cindy Kang, a Korean illustrator based in New York. I love illustrating atmospheric scenes and am currently open to new picture book projects!
📌 cindysykang.com/childrens
📚 Rep’d by @mccarthylit.com
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator
May 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There's a whole summer story in this #KidLitArtPostcard.
So much tenderness and beauty in the #KidLitArtPostcard feed!
It‘s #kidlitartpostcard day!
I‘m Martina, an Austrian illustrator with a passion for picturebooks about nature, festivities, the Hispanic world, food and cooking. As well as colors and textures.
✨ Rep‘d by Anne Moore Armstrong
at The Bright Agency
✨ martinastuhlberger.com
#kidlit #kidlitart
I‘m Martina, an Austrian illustrator with a passion for picturebooks about nature, festivities, the Hispanic world, food and cooking. As well as colors and textures.
✨ Rep‘d by Anne Moore Armstrong
at The Bright Agency
✨ martinastuhlberger.com
#kidlit #kidlitart
May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So much tenderness and beauty in the #KidLitArtPostcard feed!
Catching up on #KidLitArtPostcard Day! The best antidepressant.
It is #KidLitArtPostcard Day. www.timhamiltonarts.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Catching up on #KidLitArtPostcard Day! The best antidepressant.
WOW! Two awesome @charlesbridge.bsky.social #STEM #PictureBooks from @sarahalbee.bsky.social and illustrators Chris Hsu and Eileen Ryan Ewan!
ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T
and
BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER
Sooooo much fascinating information in a kid friendly form.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T
and
BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER
Sooooo much fascinating information in a kid friendly form.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
April 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
WOW! Two awesome @charlesbridge.bsky.social #STEM #PictureBooks from @sarahalbee.bsky.social and illustrators Chris Hsu and Eileen Ryan Ewan!
ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T
and
BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER
Sooooo much fascinating information in a kid friendly form.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T
and
BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER
Sooooo much fascinating information in a kid friendly form.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
Speak out for LIBRARIES! 📚📚📚
Remember when Harper Collins was the only major publisher not to sign the letter protesting the defunding of the IMLS? That sucked.
Anyway if you're a Harper author, sign the letter urging them to join their colleagues and get on board.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Anyway if you're a Harper author, sign the letter urging them to join their colleagues and get on board.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SIGNATURES NEEDED: Open Letter to HarperCollins
On April 3, 2025, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress in support of the Institute of Library and Museum Service...
docs.google.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Speak out for LIBRARIES! 📚📚📚