Find us at https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/kids!
Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
MG and YA writer. Landscape, farm, and food photographer.
What do I do?
✨ Help kidlit authors write & revise their books
✨ Host Middle Grade Made Easy(er) podcast
✨ Run Rhyme Made Easy(er) membership
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https://linktr.ee/LouPiccolo
NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
Dad, MG author, dragon rider | THE LAST SHADOW WARRIOR ~ Percy Jackson meets Beowulf | VALOR WINGS ~ Dunkirk with dragons (2024) - both from @Scholastic | Find me at subity.com
Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
MILES IN TIME/TIME FIXERS out now.
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
#2 Most Followed Library in the USA!
Current Challenge, Peeps!!:
https://summitco.librarycalendar.com/event/peeps-diorama-contest-15460
I write books, like the "ONE & ONLY" series, WISHTREE, ODDER, DOGTOWN, and most recently, POCKET BEAR.
THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT: A One and Only Ruby Story is coming 3/17/26, and WOMBAT WAITING is coming 5/5/26!
I post with some help from Two Cats Comm.
✍🏻 Writer 📚@HighlightsFound Scholarship Recipient (‘24) & Highlights Muslim Storyteller ('23) & We Need Kidlit Now Winner (‘24) 🧕🏻🍉 Muslim 👩🏫 Educator 🛶 MN girl 🏃♀️Runner 💗 Wife and Mama to three ✨ Author Page/writings here: https://sagasofsabr.carrd.co/
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Award-winning maker of books for kids. Represented by Myrsini Stephanides of Arc Literary Management. www.jarrettlerner.com
U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
Wife to the surfing chaplain.
Mom to 3 amazing adults.
Teacher to middle school humans.
Lover of beaches, walking, reading, thrifting, and polka dots.
Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly.
Mom of two, #kidlit writer, elementary school librarian, movie-lover, crazy LEGO lady
Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways.
website: kidlit411.com
Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
Bravoholic ‘Bridemaid’
Cohost of Niceish Podcast
Bleed Dodgers Blue 💙
“When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
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Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Human Teacher. Radically pro-kid. community organizer/capacity builder. People Over Profit. Look to Your Foremothers. (she/hers) Author, Teaching Fiercely. Co-Founder, The Minor Collective. Doctoral Student, CUNY. https://linktr.ee/KassMinor
Fifth grade teacher who believes we can use reading and writing to make the world a better place.
Educator * 2x NYT Bestselling Author * Founder of Red Clay Educators * Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy * she/her/hers * linktr.ee/sonjacherrypaul
Educator helping connect the realities of actual classroom teaching to the ideals of pedagogy, research, and common sense. My new book, The Heart of Fiction: Reading for Character, Theme, and Craft, is out now at kateandmaggie.com
literacy scholar, shot-caller, brawler
📍 red states (until they’re blue)
NBCT, English @ High Tech, past chair @alanorg Walden, AIP MAT Bio @ WCS, NYTimes Learning Network, #nerdcampNJ organizer
(shuh-NAY) • The Madwoman in the Classroom • nationally recognized, award winning literacy educator • teacher-scholar • mom • your favorite teacher’s favorite English teacher • doc student • #heymrsbond 💛 • she/her
Teacher. Writer. Reader. Determined to center joy in classrooms. Including mine. I work to put books in the hands of young people, one classroom and one kid at a time. pennykittle.net, booklovefoundation.org. ❤️
We’re America’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. We proudly fight for a world where equality wins at home, school, work, and every community.
A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
🍎 Education news updates & policy breakdowns
🇺🇸 Public schools 🤝 Democracy
🫧 Got it, got it?
Thai-American Author of MG fantasy #SKYLIGHT & #HIMMAPAN CB w/ SORRA Books |#MGMiracles |#LitKidsMag Mentor | #MixedUpFiles Writer |#WriteHive24 |#AAPI| #2024debut | patchreejones.com
The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a non-profit organization that promotes wolf conservation by teaching about wolves and their role in our world.
nywolf.org
🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com
👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
The #1 nonprofit funding site for U.S. public school teachers. Wherever learning happens, help teachers and students with the resources they need to succeed.
Donorschoose.org
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Dad. Warrior-nerd. Fugitive pedagogue. Urban cyclist. Video game, HipHop polymath. ATLien. Bringing pens to swordfights since 1978. He/Him
Former US Congressman, Proud RINO, husband, and military man. Fighting the MAGA brain worms daily!
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.substack.com
Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
NYT bestselling author of Road of Bones, The House of Last Resort, Ararat, and many others. Writes a lot of comics with Mike Mignola. Screenwriter. Anti-fascist. New novel CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE out 7/21/26.
Mom, third grade teacher in Oceanside, NY, book nerd, she/her, proud member of #BookAllies 😀📚
NEW—Seeking old (& new) book-ish friends
Weaning off of X, FB, Insta!
Grateful for Teachers & Librarians!
🐈⬛ Writing & drawing (while cat judges)
WIP: SpyKids & Cat vs. AntiDiversity villain
#mgbookchat #amwriting #drawing #middlegradebooks #Kidlit #cats
Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Author of The Princess Diaries graphic novel (June 2026) and The Magic We Made (Aug 2026)
Insomniac. Cat Lover. Optimist.
Writer of poetry, picture books, and middle grade fiction; located in Marana, AZ.
PB writer/Poet. Former Science/Math teacher. Once upon a time archeologist. #SCBWI #12x12 #AmQuerying 😻
30+ year veteran teacher. Passion reignited with my new journey into dual language immersion.
The Author Village is a collective of forward-thinking and award-winning children’s book creators, educators, and librarians available for in-person and virtual school and library visits, conferences, workshops, and professional development experiences.
Indie author and publisher of #KidLit 📚
I write GameLit and Horror for kids 👻🎮
Writer, editor, mentor, general word nerd. Terra Electrica - debut MG novel - published July 2024 by Neem Tree Press. antoniamaxwell.com
MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House).
LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press).
#KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.”
Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social
Www.Authorkellymangan.com
#NoAIArt
My middle-grade sci-fi book Noobs is available on Amazon.
he/him
Librarian 📚 Artist 🎨
Read everything. Read anything.
Read banned books. Read whatever you prefer or can get your hands on in whatever format you like.
Read.
Teacher Librarian. Reader. Lover of Trivia, Puzzles and Games. Champion of Books, Authors and Illustrators. She/her. Book Reviewer. Dog Mom.
Auction by the #kidlit community to raise funds for Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts. Bidding: Jan 20th (9am PST) - Jan 28th (8pm PST).
Amazing items up for bid: www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles
Bear logo by Sydney Hanson IG: @sydwiki
💀 Middle grade horror author 🦷 OPEN WIDE (Aladdin, Aug ‘25)🍦I SCREAM TRUCK (Aladdin, Aug ‘26) ✍🏻 Repped by Lynnette Novak
https://www.imeerie.com
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Open-Wide/I-M-Eerie/9781665980418
Aurora nominated author of The Black Hole Radio book series for middle grade readers. Retired librarian, curler, sea glass treasures artist. 💙
Instagram.com/annbirdbooks
| Grade 5 teacher, dad, husband, collaborator, learner | We can do better...together. | #EduSky #tlap #leadlap #EduMatch
I’m an author #coach, #editor, and #fantasy author 📚🧚♀️🔥 I love #FB and enjoy supporting #indieauthors.
www.TheWriteWyss.com
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
#kidlit author ✍️
MG, CB, PB 📚
MFA Spalding University 🎓
Rep’d by Liza Fleissig @ Liza Royce Associates
Love getting kids excited about reading & writing!
www.LeslieSantamaria.com
Senior Literary Agent, Spencerhill Associates. Twin mom+1 📚 Eclectic in life & books. I 💙 Jane Austen & SFF in equal doses. #TeamSpencerhill Ali-ens 👽 rock! My site/MSWL: https://aliherringwrites.wordpress.com & how to query: www.spencerhillassociates.com
Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
Author of fantastical fiction. The CLARA POOLE series (Pixel+Ink, 2023-24), SPROUT (Random House Children’s Books, 2026).
Artist, Children's book writer, (Saving Hambone's Bacon), lover of freedom.
Introvert, travel writer, children's book author. Rep'd by Katie Monson of SBR Media. #kidlit #writingcommunity #12x12PB
AprilBerryBooks.com
Educator • wife • mom of sons • curious • tech-savvy • singer • swimmer • Canada/US • mglit • kidlit • opinions are my own (she/her)
Award-winning #kidlit author / Ocean Activist / Retired Scuba Instructor and Boat Captain bringing a unique voice from the ocean. Rep'd by Andie Smith and CMA Lit
She/her 🏳️🌈 @Horrorwriters #SpookyMG Rep'd by @renarossner. GHOST GIRL, the Bram Stoker nominated THIS APPEARING HOUSE, THE OTHER MARCH SISTERS and Stephen King endorsed BROKEN DOLLS
Hi, I’m Don Henry, author of Hallow’s.
If you’d like further info or to get updates on my upcoming spooky novel series, please go to:
HallowsSchoolfortheDead.com
to learn more! 👻📖
Or DM me anytime! #Booksky
A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Elegist | Philosopher | Historian
Searching for timeless truths in a transient world.
📖Eternal Elegies |🏔️Shattered Archipelago
Instructional Specialist, Teacher/Librarian, #Foodie, Adventurer, Googly, #knitter, #crafter #writer #EduSky #TLSky #GoogleTrainer #GoogleEdu #BookCreatorAmbassador
Haigh a chairde! Siggy the Sausage Dog series coming soon @tinytreebooks.bsky.social
Dreamer and Seeker of Kindness.
#siggythesausagedog
PEACE✌️☮️ #mufc #Gaeilge #kidlit #ADHD #GráMór
Live Bristol, from Belfast. Sláinte💜 www.brianfrederickauthor.com
I write books for children. I give workshops at schools. I teach grown-ups how to write for kids. #kidlit #reading #writing
Children's Book Author and Playwright #SCBWI #KidLit
www.barbarakimmelwrites.com
👑 Purim Possibilities (PJ Publishing)
🕎 Hanukkah Hippity-Hop (Kar-Ben)
🦊 Rep'd by Eve Adler, Red Fox Literary
Primary school librarian, National Literacy Trust literacy champion and serial volunteer 🙂
Author. Writer. Podcast host. Progressive Democrat. Sports fan. Nerd. On the autism spectrum. Downstate Illinoisan. I don't fit neatly into any box, figuratively or literally. He/Him/His.
https://linktr.ee/campaaronapollo
USA TODAY bestselling #author of WE COULD BE HEROES and other #mgnovels from @SimonKids/Atheneum Books for Young Readers. My latest, SPELLING IT OUT, drops May 2025. Excellent baker of chocolate cake.
MG and YA reader, curator of learning experiences, parent, executive function coach, baker, and poet. I work toward a more just world with little choices every day.
| NH K-8 School Librarian | Reviewer for School Library Journal | #YA Novelist @HarperCollins.bsky.social | Info at benjaminludwig.com | Choosing books is how we choose and build our culture. |
E Train Talks Inc. is a 501©(3) literacy nonprofit. Founded by Ethan, a 15-year-old award-winning literacy advocate, podcaster & Giving Tuesday Leader.
E Train Talks Literacy Program is turning pages and changing lives, one story at a time!etraintalks.org
Early literacy research, policy, and practice. Executive Director, Center for Early Literacy & Learning Success, Stand for Children; Professor, Education and Psychology, University of Michigan. For direct queries, please email. AOMO website: nellkduke.org
A group blog of middle-grade authors celebrating books for middle-grade readers. For anyone with a passion for children’s literature. Join us! https://fromthemixedupfiles.com/
🇧🇧 Author. Up next: HERE LIES A GHOST (March 3rd 2026, Scholastic), BEWARE THE HEARTMAN, NIGHTMARE ISLAND, JOSEPHINE AGAINST THE SEA, ALLIES
www.shakirahbourne.com
Middle school teacher, dumpster diver, mediocre gardener, author of books for kids and teens. I raise humans and chickens.
Children's author and screenwriter. Waterstones Children's Book Award and Edgars shortlisted. New fairytale whodunnit, The Big Bad Wolf Murder, OUT NOW!
My stuff: https://linktr.ee/pgbell
Author of some pretty good mg books. I write for all young people but my mc’s are always gonna be Black.
