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Bank Street College prepares teachers and school leaders, provides education and support for children from infancy through high school, and conducts research to advance high-quality practice and policy across the field.
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Publishing award-winning books and magazines for children ages 2 to 14 since 1976 📚
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We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
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"The standard of excellence in children's books" - Forbes
Barefoot Books is an award-winning, independent, women-owned and run, children’s book publisher based in Concord, MA.
Award-winning independent children's book publisher, inspiring a lifelong love of reading for more than 50 years #Bookswithusallin #Learningthroughplay www.childs-play.com https://linktr.ee/childsplaybooks
📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
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Independent, POC-owned children's book publisher specializing in diversity since 1991. © 2026 Lee & Low Books.
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We publish beautiful picture books from international authors, illustrators, and translators! Also home to Ediciones NorteSur, our Spanish language imprint.
The Latinx KidLit Book Festival is a virtual celebration of Latinx KidLit authors, illustrators, and books for readers & educators.
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Founder: American Indians in Children's Literature
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Kidlit author of MEASURING UP, CHLOE’S LUNAR NEW YEAR, and UNHAPPY CAMPER. Repped Laura Rennert (ABLA) and Mary Pender (UTA) https://lilylamotte.com/
unhappy camper, measuring up, shadow life | annxu.cargo.site
artist and illustrator in Denver Co
💙 art + music + design + animals
hoping this all works out 🌎🌍🌏
#1 NYT bestselling author of many books, including the FRONT DESK series
🇵🇭🇺🇸 KidLit Author/Illustrator. NYT Bestseller. Mom. Wife. Old school gamer. My favorite RPG game is Escape from Monkey Island. IG:ninamataart Rep: Christy Ewers, CAT Agency
AF = Ann Felicity. Author: Katie the Catsitter series, Junie B. Jones graphic novels, Kiss Number 8 (National Book Award nominee!), The Swayze Year. Comic booker, maker, loudest laugher in the room. Splits time between North Adams, MA and Brooklyn, NY.
Award-winning illustrator of over 60 children's titles, including "Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!" "The Great Stink" "Apples to Oregon" and "17 Things I Am Not Allowed To Do Anymore."
Rhymes with laugh | Sibert Honor author of THE GREAT STINK | Next up: FIREFLY SONG 6/25 and RAINBOW TRUCK 3/26 | School visits are my favorite! | Los Angeles, CA
www.colleenpaeff.com
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Cartoonist. Writer-Illustrator of CHUNKY, SCI-FU and SHAZAM THUNDERCRACK!
Screenwriter of Animated Feature Films (coming soon)
Dog owner.
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illustrator 🇵🇭 I DANCE (Holiday House ‘25), DREAMING OF A QUINCEAÑERA (Scholastic ‘25)
📚 rep’d by Full Circle Literary
available for freelance!
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I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
✨ Picture book illustrator (she/her)
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Author & educator📚Keila charges $5 to answer "Where are you from?" 📚NO BRAIN THE SAME '26📚Out now: ⚜️ YUMBO GUMBO & El gumbo más delicioso 🌏 NO WORLD TOO BIG 🚘 OPENING THE ROAD 📢 NO VOICE TOO SMALL 👑KING CAKE BABY 📚 🔗 https://www.keiladawson.com/
MG author of ALL OF ME & THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT-THE GRAY 23 & more in 24 @FeiwelFriends, English Prof, Poet, ig: christhebearbaron
Twitter @baronchrisbaron
#1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning tortoise owner
Writer of Happy Town, Voyage of the Dogs, Cog, Weird Kid, California Bones, etc. Californian by birth, Indo by ancestry. Repped by Holly Root at Root Literary.
www.writingandsnacks.com
he/him
bestselling writer & artist making comics (she/her) ✦ GARLIC duology, THE FIRELIGHT APPRENTICE ✦ monsters, FromSoft, all things autumnal ✦ Repped by Britt Siess
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Current WIP: YA adaptation of DRACULA
NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
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Award-winning cartoonist. Non-award-winning hockey player.
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Edgar® award-winning & USA TODAY best-selling author.📚 Recovering attorney & soccer mom. ⚖️⚽️ Has a dog that can open doors.🐕
Author, illustrator, and photographer of picture books for children. THE BLACK MAMBAS (Lerner 2025), WASHED ASHORE (Lerner 2022). Rep’d by Deborah Warren. #kidlit 🇪🇸🇺🇸
✨ professional daydreamer. ✍🏽 novelist for kids 🍑 ATLien in St. Pete. 💡 critical thinker ☀️ Former teacher and teacher educator 🐍 FAMUAN 🔺 DST1913
www.nicoledcollier.com
NAACP Image Award Nominated MG and YA Author of THE FORGOTTEN GIRL, THE GIRL IN THE LAKE, and RHYTHM & MUSE. Jesus Lover. Mommy 💙💙. Black American Southern girlie. Millennial BeyHiver.
Senior Vis Dev at DreamWorks Animation: The Wild Robot , Netflix, EA/Glu Mobile , Kena: Bridge of Spirits , ILM , Warner Bros , The Mill . Washed up CDM ⚽️ . Live aloha 🤙🏾🌺
Award-winning children's author of poetic nature-loving picture books: FORESTS, VOLCANOES, FROM PARK TO PLAYA: THE TRAILS THAT CONNECT US, CAVES, WHEN THE SKY GLOWS, DOWN UNDER THE PIER. 2027: COYOTE & ME @SteamTeamBooks #kidslovenonfiction #kidlit
Half Guatemalan-Half Anglo middle-grade author who likes popcorn :-) Also English prof and cat mom!
Children's book writer. Collector of unusual hobbies.
3-time Newbery Honor-winning author of THE LAST MAPMAKER, the #1 Bestseller THE TRYOUT, and THE LEGENDS OF LOTUS ISLAND series.
Swamp muppet from Michigan
Just your friendly neighborhood comic designer
Creator of Batcat
Currently tracking all my reads of 2025
(320 books and counting)
www.meggietheramm.com
Award winning author / illustrator
Author of over 40 books for children. Loves brunch, Taylor Swift, and the Green Bay Packers.
Illustrator/Author of The Deep! and The Dark! (Penguin Workshop) http://linktr.ee/linseedling She/Her. I love art, nature, and horror books/movies.
Author of the BUTT OR FACE? series, ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT: HOW JAMES EARL JONES FOUND HIS VOICE (illustrated by Bryan Collier), and WE MOVE THE WORLD (illustrated by @nabihaiderali.bsky.social)
Author of GOOD DIFFERENT & THE GIRL IN THE WALLS @Scholastic
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http://www.megedenbooks.com/
Co-author of the Dogtown series with Katherine Applegate. (Am I lucky or what?) Author of The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman.
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!
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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
New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
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