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Andrea Tsurumi
@atsurumi.bsky.social
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(they/them) Kidlit author/illustrator, cartoonist, game lizard. Books include Accident!, Crab Cake, and I'm On It!
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https://substack.com/@amusedbycorners
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Thank you, Liz ❤️
October 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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PA: go get yer COVID shot!
Pharmacies here can give it without a prescription. ⚔️
Tired nonbinary person with glasses and short black hair poses with a post-covid-vaccine band aid on their upper arm. They are smiling, holding an unrelated foam Zelda flame sword.
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Y'all, I love the Philly Goat Project so much. They're right here in Philly, they do all kinds of great educational, community, environmental programs at the Farm at Awbury Arboretum, and this spring they were like, is there a local illustrator who'd be way too excited to make us a sign?
Outside shot: three large brightly colored, square shaped signs fixed to a black metal fence with the words VISIT THE FARM and accompanying drawings of flowers, goats, and bees, with a short nonbinary person gesturing to them like "ta-da!" A herd of very brave, very adorable goats stand by their fence and look back at what was a wheelbarrow that fell over.
July 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Embarrassed Ferret, @lisariddiough.bsky.social & my brand new book, comes out tomorrow! tinyurl.com/n4kux74b
A sweet and silly story about a kid having an absolutely cursed day at school and what happens when things come to a head.
Cover design by @fillbuchanan.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Last Fri, Cotsen Children's Library, @princetonpl.bsky.social & JaZams hosted @fuse8.bsky.social and me for a POP Goes the Nursery Rhyme storytime — read about it here and get directions for the Weasel Surprise Box craft Dana created:
popgoesthepage.princeton.edu/pop-goes-the...
Photo of an illustrated brown weasel wearing pink overalls popping out of a small white cardboard box covered with star stickers (the weasel is attached to a white paper folded "spring"). POP! is on the inside lid. On the left, a short Asian-American nonbinary person with round glasses and short black hair, wearing a blue button up shirt and jeans. On the right: a smiling woman with black glasses and tied-back hair, wearing a purple turtleneck and black pants, and holding a Secretary Bird puppet on her right hand. Both are smiling above a copy of their book, Pop goes the nursery rhyme.
July 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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ALA folks, join me and @fuse8.bsky.social at the @unionsquarekids.bsky.social booth this Sat. 6/28 at 10:00am for a Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme signing/drawing
Black and blue ink drawing and writing on white paper with the date and time for a POP signing at ALA this Saturday (6/28, 10am). Doodle of a secretary bird looking at the writing and saying "come get a lil drawing in your book"
June 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Thank you @freelibrary.bsky.social and participating schools for making a fantastic few days of school & library visits! Met SO many deeply cool kids, educators, and librarians and saw folks make great original characters.
Photo of the author, a short trans person with black hair, glasses, and a patterned shirt, holding a copy of Crab Cake and pointing at a screen displaying sketches of the book with the words: "Starting! Idea, question, doodle!" First grade kids sit on the rug, looking at the screen. A child's art "Make a Character" art project: an abstract green shape taped to a white piece of paper, with angry eyes, fangs, and a scar drawn on its body and brown shapes falling out of its behind. "The angriest monster I am pooping!" is written on it.
June 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Join me for a Pride Picture Book Storytime at the Independence Branch, 11:15am, for books & crafts! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...
Short black-haired trans person with glasses, wearing a colorful shirt and jeans, holds up Mr. Watson's Chickens so seated children can see the pictures.
June 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Self-Sirhood at 13: post/comic about gender euphoria and not knowing you're real.
open.substack.com/pub/amusedby...
Greyed out picture of a sepia and white comic page about a nonbinary kid having a moment of confusing gender euphoria via photobooth. With link to a substack post about it.
June 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Join @fuse8.bsky.social & me on June 27 in Princeton for a POP storytime and craft!
@unionsquarekids.bsky.social
A square blue flyer with text "Join Betsy Bird and Andrea Tsurumi for POP! An interactive Song and Puppet Storytime June 27 at 11am presented by Cotsen Children's Library & jaZam at the Princeton Public Library" with pictures of the animals from the book: a secretary bird reading a book, a weasel popping out of the O in Pop, and some worried looking bystanders.
June 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Philly folks, join me and an overambitious amount of googly eyes art supplies at these libraries this month! Storytime!
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Finding it harder to leave the house for some reason
May 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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It's here! Our new book, Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme by @fuse8.bsky.social is finally out!

bookshop.org/p/books/pop-...
March 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Guess what? Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme by @fuse8.bsky.social & me comes out March 18th! You can also get a lil dance party print if you preorder from certain stores: (amusedbycorners.substack.com/p/pop-goes-t...) @unionsquarekids.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A Pigeon Story - whole thing at my blog: tinyurl.com/2s3em2hr
A comics story - the first page shows a short, dark haired person looking across 5th ave in nyc.
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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We've all got an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you 🤷‍♂️
January 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Really nice review of Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme by @fuse8.bsky.social over at Publishers Weekly ❤️
"a raucous celebration of rule-breaking"
Out March 18 (available for preorder now)
January 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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How it started/how it's going
December 10, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Haven't thought about what to post first on this thing and then bam, it was obvious
December 2, 2024 at 2:57 PM