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Yay!! Good luck to everyone! 🎃📚💛

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 23h

Halloween 🎃 book giveaway! Win a copy of @bshum79.bsky.social Anzu the Great Listener + Things That Go Bump in the Day (illus. by @charlenedraws.bsky.social )! Enter on Insta: tinyurl.com/mu3sd88n #kidlit #booksky #edusky #librarians

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy #BookBirthday to WHEN A DRAGON GOES TO A PARTY by Chelsea M Campbell, illus. by me! #kidlit #dragons #booksky

cover of When a Dragon goes to a Party by Chelsea M Campbell and illustrated by Charlene Chua. Happy dragons party with children dressed in various cultural outfits.

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I believe so, you are telling stories sequentially.

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're in the LA area, come join @lizclimo.bsky.social and I at Leanna Lin's Wonderland for a book signing fundraiser for Better Together Forever on Oct 3rd 1-3pm. 💛🐱🐕🐈🐾🐰🐦

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I will never forget the day I got the email from my editor that ALEX'S GOOD FORTUNE was selected for the Imagination library. And learn and understand why she created this program. Thank you Dolly for the incredible impact you made on all of us. #imaginationlibrary #dollyparton

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is making me cry

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This ends tomorrow! 1 winner for US & 1 winner for Canada #backtoschool #giveaway #booksky #edusky #teachers

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have you entered our Back To School #BookGiveaway yet? Win a copy of Benson Shum First Night of Howlergarten and When You Go To Dragon School by Chelsea M Campbell & Charlene Chua ! Enter on Instagram tinyurl.com/4k8cwept #kidlit #booksky #edusky

Photo showing cover of First Night of Howlergarten and When You Go To Dragon School

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First day of school can be a howling grrreat time! 💜💜💜 #firstdayofschool #picturebook @penguinkids.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708419...

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First day of school can be a howling grrreat time! 💜💜💜 #firstdayofschool #picturebook @penguinkids.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708419...

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Concept art by Maurice Noble for What's Opera, Doc? (1957), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons

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Theartofpuro @theartofpuro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Book Cover Artists QRP with your book covers #bookcover #coverart

Toofs cover, baby Wolf with his big shadow

Wall key holder and a glass of water with a key inside

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers! 📚✨ #BookCover #kidlit #kidlitart

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers! 📚✨ (Pspsppsps - hire me) #BookCover #kidlit #kidlitart

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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Book Cover Artists QRP with your book covers! #kidlitart #bookcover

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Excited to share our next film, HEXED from Disney Animation studios.

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Thank you @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social for having WHO'S DIGGING? on your Book books for kids and teens Spring 2026 list! 💚💚💚

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thanks @erindealey.bsky.social for sharing these great books! And including FIRST NIGHT OF HOWLERGARTEN 💜

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I will be at TCAF on June 6-7! Table 322, 4th floor (tabling with my pal Brian McLachlan @brianmcl.com ) We will have kids' comics! And art! And... other stuff! Come by and say hi if you're coming to TCAF! #TCAF #TCAF2026 #kidlit #comics

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 17/05/2026

Children's book friends! What are your favorite fairy tale retellings & fairy-tale inspired books from BIPOC authors & illustrators? I have a list started but feel like I must be missing a lot of more recent releases.

Book cover MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS by John Steptoe shows a brown-skinned girl holding a hand mirror, against an African landscape.

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

One of my sister’s goats just delivered her first of two babies! This guy is Han Solo and he’s the cutest thing I have ever seen. Lookit those ears!

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thanks Charlene!! 💛💛🐼

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thank you to Hamilton Public Library Hamilton Public Library for including THE PINK PAJAMAS in their Asian Heritage Month booklist! hpl.bibliocommons.co... #books #kidlit #asianheritagemonth #aapi #aanhpi #librarysky

Screenshot of Asian Heritage Month books recommended by Hamilton Public Library

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day from Little Seed 💚🌱 #earthday #kidlit #boardbook

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A selection of shots animated by Andrzej Radka for Ernest & Celestine (2012), dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner, La Parti Productions

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Carole & Tuesday (2019), dir. Shinichiro Watanabe, Bones

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Thank you so much! 🙏🏽🥰

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Excited to share a new book series I illustrated and written by Derek Shun, called MISSION MILESTONE! 🚀 #kidlit #picturebook #panda @simonkids.bsky.social @bookmarkliterary.bsky.social

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Elsa Chang @elsasketch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A new look at Spider-Man: Beyond the #SpiderVerse. In theatres 6.18.2027. 🕸️

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

So amazing, joyce!! Congratulations!!

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Joyce Wan @joycewanbooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

15 years ago, I almost didn’t send the book that changed my life. From slush pile...to 250,000+ copies...to NYT Best Board Books list. Now, YOU ARE MY CUPCAKE is back—super chunky and extra blingy. Out May 5th! The little cupcake that could… still does. Story on Substack (link in bio). #kidlit

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ande ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ @andewitt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

let’s hang out by the field with mama

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thank you to Junior Library Guild for adding THE PINK PAJAMAS to their selection! And for this neat pin! I hope this helps get the book to more readers who may benefit from the story about loss and love, and remembering loved ones after they are gone 💕 #kidlit

Photo showing The Pink Pajamas along with an award pin from Junior Library Guild. The pin is to acknowledge the book’s inclusion in the JLG Gold Selection.

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Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thank you Vroman's bookstore! Signed copies of We are Lion Dancer, Imagine You and Me & Anzu the Great Kaiju 💛 #indiebookstore

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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If you’re shopping at this indie bookstore and want to find Dragons Love Tacos, The Paper Bag Princess, or Anzu the Great Kaiju, you’ll find those and others Infantasy.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 24/03/2026

Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books: pls credit the ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are helping to boost them, but also shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 19/03/2026

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #WriterSky #BookSky #ReaderSky

Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads:
"If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting."
— Liana Brooks

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Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright @erindealey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"The instinct toward #creativity in difficult moments is not incidental. It is the brain’s attempt to restore coherence, & may be one of the most human things about us." @psychologytoday.com In the pb Squirrel Draws BIG Feelings, #ART "feels like a quiet hug." @lucianaillustra.bsky.social #kidlit

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