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Jenn Gautam (she/her)
@jenngautam.bsky.social
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✏️Picture book writer
#SCBWI #12x12
🤓 Nature nerd
🐙 Former sci educator
🏳️‍🌈Queer
🌳Outdoor parenting inspo on IG @ PuddleParenting.
📍 Massachusetts
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I won!!

#50preciouswords
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April 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Check out my #50preciouswords entry!

viviankirkfield.com/2025/03/02/5...
Back ground is a picture of two pink plastic flamingos in a field of snow. Black text reads: The snow gauge By Jenn Gautam Weatherman says snow today. The yard flamingo's in dismay. Snow begins with soft delight. Flamingo's toes are frosted white. Flakes make whirling, twirling art. Flamingo yearns for spring to start. The snow's accumulating fast; Flamingo's waist is quickly passed. Soon it's one flamingo deep. Flamingo sighs and goes to sleep.
March 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Pumped for #pbrisingstars after last night's meet the mentors zoom!
Yellow circle with a astronaut in the middle holding a star in front of a pencil rocket. Text on edge of circle reads "I'm applying to be a 2025 mentee"
February 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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On the train to the #scbwiny25 conference! Woohoo!
Selfie of a white woman with brown hair and rainbow glasses sitting in a train car.
January 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Nothing better than supportive friends ❤️ who buy you candles like this ☺️

#kidlit #picturebook
White hand holding a jar candle with a label that says "smells like she's writing a bestseller"
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Woohoo! Almost here 😃 #scbwiny25 #kidlit
I'm going to the scbwi 2025 New York conference Jan 31-feb 2
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Joined #12x12 this year! so excited to start exploring the forum.
illustrated picture of a black child writing on lined paper that is flying across the image. Text says 12 x 12 12 picture books 12 months Participant.
January 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Love this illustration in the book Boats on the Bay by Jeanne Walker Harvey illustrated by Grady McFerrin! The swirly water is entrancing.
Birds eye view of blue and white boats on a sea of blue-green with light topographical looking lines. Straight Bold red dotted lines intersect across the page. Words in white type read "a water taxi zigs and zags"
January 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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So excited for #storystorm this year! I wrote down 159 ideas last year and am excited to start 2025 off strong! #kidlit
Banner for Storystorm. Followed by text: January 2025 participant taralazar. Com image of a can and elephant in the rain holding umbrellas, cloud balloons, and cupcakes. Both have a headband with a lit lightbulb. Text at bottom says 31 ideas in 31 days it will blow your mind. Art by Anna raff.
January 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

I love maps, and this book was so clever in how it explains the different types of maps and how to read them!
(17/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Book cover of What a Map Can Do by Gabrielle Balkan art by Alberto Lot
December 16, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

This book makes me cry every time I read it. 😭🥹
(16/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of the book A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundi written by Marlon Bundo with Jill Twiss illustrated by EG Keller
December 14, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

This book is so fun -- I love good word play! And bonus there's diverse representation 😍
(15/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Book cover of Bathe the Cat by Alice b. McGinty illustrated by David Roberts
December 12, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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If you are going to the #scbwiNY25 conference -- you can now add pronouns to your conference badge!
Yellow box that says: Would you like your pronouns on your conference badge? To add your pronouns, please login to the SCBWI website and go the Winter Conference homepage, Click on the REGISTER FOR EVENT button and select your pronouns at the bottom of the registration form. Be sure to click the BOOK A SEAT button to add your choice to your registration. Deadline to add pronouns to your badge is December 20th.
December 10, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

Fav line: "collecting sweltering samples. Hiking in shoe-melting temperatures. Risking it all to learn more. Superheroes? Scientists."
(14/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of the book Volcanoes by Nell Cross Beckerman illustrated by Kalen Chock.
December 9, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

In 2020 when libraries were closed, my friends and I did a pb swap so we had new books to read to our kids. This was my favorite of the bunch I was lent.
(13/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of the book Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
December 7, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

This book is so simple and beautiful, just looking for nature treasures on a walk in the neighborhood. Bonus: it depicts an interracial family like mine ❤️
(12/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of the book Tiny Perfect Things by M. H. Clark illustrated by Madeline Kloepper
December 5, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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First snowfall of the season here 😍
Backyard of trees covered in a light dusting of snow. View looks out over a deck that's high up.
December 5, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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My Victoria's secret bag from the 2000s turned library bag can hold 35 picture books. Did not fit my full library haul this time.

Always trying to find out where the limit is for my library card checkouts.

#picturebooks
#kidlit
#picturebookwriter
A pink striped Victorias secret bag full of books sits on a table. Next to it is a small stack of about 10 picture books.
December 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

Confession: I'm a nerd who loves cooking and this cookbook is an excellent combo of nerdy and full of delicious recipes 😋
(11/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
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The cover of the book the food lab by Kenji Lopez alt
December 4, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Look at this adorable pen my friend gave me! 😍😍🍄

#writing
#kidlit
Picture is of a hand holding a yellow pen. The top of the pen has a yellow mushroom cap.
December 4, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

This was my favorite picture book as a kid! My mom gifted it to me at my baby shower 🩷 have you read this one?
(10/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of the book Harvey Potters Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen and Mark Buehner. On the front is a cow on a farm looking up at a corn stalk looking plant with a balloon on top.
December 3, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

I love this book for it's accurate depiction of ocean research and that it's a pick your path book! Loved those as a kid!
(9/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Book cover of Search for Giant Squid by Amy Seto Forrester and Andy Chou Musser. A pick your path adventure
December 1, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

This book inspired my life-long love of Greek mythology. I once read it three times back to back when I forgot to bring other books on vacation!
(8/20)
#BookSky
#kidlit
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Book cover of "Sirena" by Donna Jo Napoli -- mermaid sitting on a rock with a Greek ship in the background
November 29, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

In honor of Thanksgiving -- this one holds a special place in my heart because my grandpa built the table in my dining room and I grew up eating every thanksgiving at it!
(7/20)
#BookSky
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Book cover of the picture book "around the table that grandad built" by Melanie Heusier Hill and Jaime Kim Picture of a walnut table in a dining room
November 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

Tired of no explanation! This was one of my favorite book discoveries when I was an after school teacher. I even gifted it to a couple who loved tacos for their wedding.
(6/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 27, 2024 at 11:38 PM