Maximum excitement (for three minutes) at our house yesterday! 🌈 #rainbow #funwithkids

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Yay!!! A lovely family walk into Ironbridge today ended at one of our favourite shops, The Toybox, a real gem. We picked up some great books we've been hunting down for a while. Bring on bedtime! 📖🛏️

#oliverjeffers #brittateckentrup #juliadonaldson #kidlit #childrensbooks #picturebook

Wow, so much wonderful art! Now open for public viewing: SCBWI Summer 2025 Portfolio Showcase - www.scbwi.org/submissions/... #scbwisummer25 #KidLit #SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social

Pls show your support for *human* artists by boosting? It's a challenging time for illustrators to find work. Thank you! 🩷

What I love about writing for children is that you get to tell the truth, and (almost) nothing is out of bounds. However, you try expressing big feelings and an interesting story in fewer than 500 words! Tricky!

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Thank you for the stories, #allanahlberg. I loved Funnybones when I was little, and my daughter loves Each Peach Pear Plum. We must've read that book a thousand times!
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The ultimate writing tool for the AI age? I'd like to introduce my beloved 1939 Remington Home Portable to you all. Tapping away on this beauty is a joy! It's such a satisfying way to write (even if I have been banished to the garden shed to do it).

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I hope counting the number of words in many, many children's books counts as good market research. I'm going seriously cross-eyed! ☺️ How many books did you count through, authors out there?
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Let's do this! Today's writing fuel is tea and cheesy crackers. Would a ferret eat a cheesy cracker? Just wondering...

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Hi, I'm Toby.

I create stories for children who feel things deeply, and the grown-ups who love them. Whether it’s finding courage on a stormy day, or learning to say “I’m not okay,” my picture books help young readers explore emotions in safe, imaginative ways.

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