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Erica Lee Schlaikjer 🍉 史光芬
@ericaleewrites.bsky.social
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✍️ Picture book author, seeking rep
📚 Here for the #kidlit community!
💫 SKY LUCK (out now!)
🌱 WILD GREENS, BEAUTIFUL GIRL (August 2024)
🌎 台灣阿美族 aboriginal Taiwanese (Amis) & Euro-American
📍 Los Angeles
🔗 www.ericaleewrites.com
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‼️ 40% of the approx. 7000 languages around the world may disappear by the turn of this 21st century.

This is why I wrote WILD GREENS, BEAUTIFUL GIRL in English, Mandarin & Amis, an endangered indigenous language of Taiwan.

Learn more about this award from
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October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I'm taking a road trip up to Summerland, CA for a SKY LUCK #storytime at Godmothers on Saturday, October 18! Tell all your friends in the Santa Barbara area!
October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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EDUCATORS! LIBRARIANS! Looking for a fun SEL or STEAM activity to do with your students? Check out this downloadable teacher's guide from @bluedotkidspress.bsky.social to accompany my latest picture book 💫 SKY LUCK, about counting your lucky stars. 🌟

PDF >> www.bluedotkidspress.com/_files/ugd/c...
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Oh my goodness—time flies! Just two weeks until publication!

Pre-order now via our publisher @bluedotkidspress.bsky.social for 25% off with promo code SKYLUCK25 at checkout >> www.bluedotkidspress.com/sky-luck

Artwork by the lovely @dagmarsmith.bsky.social
Sky Luck cover
September 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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One of my favorite spreads from SKY LUCK, illustrated by @dagmarsmith.bsky.social . Available for pre-order now. Out on September 30.
July 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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🏃🏻‍♀️ Run, don’t walk!—and pre-order a copy of my next picture book 💫 SKY LUCK ✨ for 30% off with code SKYLUCK30. Now until July 7th only. Link to order: www.bluedotkidspress.com/product-page...

🎨 illustrated by @dagmarsmith.bsky.social
🌍 published by @bluedotkidspress.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Big update: I’m a mom!

Read more in my newsletter: substack.com/@ericaleewri...
April 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Some exciting news 🌸 Baby is expected to come any day now!

My husband is Palestinian. I’m Euro-American/indigenous Taiwanese.

Join us in celebrating survival & healing for the next generation with a contribution to MECA to support kids & families in Gaza. 🙏 secure.everyaction.com/P2P/L41t0naU...
March 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Happy Year of the Wood Snake! 🪵 🐍 🔥新年快樂！
January 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
January 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
January 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
January 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Letters to a Young Poet
January 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
December 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Holiday #kidlit reading & coffeeshop chilling 📖 ☕️
December 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! is a children's book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.
December 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
December 21, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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A few #picturebook highlights from 2024 🌱🌺✨ Wishing everyone a restful & rejuvenating holiday season. Looking forward to 2025!
2024 highlights of my book launch Reading the book out loud in public for the first time during a storytime + signing at KUBO, a creative community space in Long Beach Signing pre-orders and meeting my first customer at Bel Canto Books, a proudly woman- and BIPOC-owned indie bookseller in Long Beach Stumbling upon my book chosen as a "Staff Pick" at Powell's, the world's largest independent bookstore
December 20, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
December 19, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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How We Get Free edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
December 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Drawn Together by Minh Le and Dan Santat
December 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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One of my #kidlit highlights of 2024 was stumbling upon my picture book as a #staffpick at @powells.bsky.social while on vacation in Portland!

Still can’t believe it’s really in print! 🌱 🌺
Wild Greens Beautiful Girl at Powell’s Author Erica Schlaikjer at Powell’s
December 14, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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The Longest Letsgoboy by Derick Wilder and Catia Chien
December 14, 2024 at 12:22 AM