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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 02/10/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Deepest Blue Shauntay Grant & Daniel Minter Vertical open, felt very unique but also challenging as a read-aloud. GORGEOUS art. Girls' discoveries tying back to the slave trade and Black culture. Amazing and powerful!

Book cover for "The Deepest Blue" showing a young Black girl with braided hair in a bun wearing a scuba mask and regulator, swimming through vibrant blue water.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 30/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Where is the Dragon? Leo Timmers Caught the Timmers-bug and enjoy this art so damn much. Fun characters. Silly trick your mind plays in the dark.

Book cover for "Where is the dragon?" showing three small armored knights with red plumes and huge noses, peering from grass beneath a large black dragon silhouette against a starry sky.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 28/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Fish Like Me Jamie Sumner & Devon Holzwarth @devonholzwarth.bsky.social Really well done story. Combining some magic of imagination with a fun mindset around therapy and mobility.

Children's book cover for "A Fish Like Me" showing a smiling child with arm floaties underwater reaching toward a colorful tropical fish among coral, sea plants and bubbles, and a wheelchair pictured on the pool deck above.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 25/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Wide Open Spaces Robyn McGrath & Polina Gortman @polinagortman.bsky.social Lyrical story of a family road trip. Fantastical-imagination moments at different points across the trip. Back matter on mindfulness. Very sweet.

Children's book cover "Wide Open Spaces" showing a smiling child with green-tipped hair and arms outstretched, sitting on a large orange sea shell in a meadow.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 23/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Old Blue is My Home Lita Judge Very well done housing insecurity story. Good at building empathy about different situations. Shows the joy that living in the van gives the family too.

Children's book cover "Old Blue Is My Home" showing a family camping by a blue van at dusk. 2 children are reading by a lantern inside the van, a dog nearby, and parents are hand washing and hanging clothes.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 21/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Whale, That Was Unexpected Casey Lyall Kathryn Durst @caseylyall.bsky.social My new favorite read-aloud. Cumulative story of sorts. Great wordplay and rhythm. Fun voice. I enjoyed reading this one.

Children's book cover "Whale, That Was Unexpected" showing a giant whale's open mouth looming over a stoic fisherwoman and a dog, both in yellow rain gear, on a boat

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 18/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Robin and the Stick E.B. Goodale @ebgoodale.bsky.social Kid growing stronger. The stick collecting felt so true (like based on a real kid). Growth mindset to collect the branch. Simple illustrations with great use of the red sweater.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 16/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks I'm… (series) Michael Ian Black Debbie Ridpath Ohi @michaelianblack.bsky.social @debbieohi.com This whole series is great. Funny. Kid-friendly. Great read aloud. A girl, a flamingo, and a potato. Love it!

Photo of 5 picture books. each with a pastel cover and I'm the title in bold. some have a pink flamingo on them, others a brown potato or others a line drawn girl with yellow hair clips.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 14/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Have you seen my Invisible Dinosaur? Helen Yoon Really well done illustrations of something invisible. Magical realism. SPOILERS: You think the kid is just imagining it, but then he finds the dinosaur.

Children's book cover for "Have You Seen My Invisible Dinosaur?" showing a small child in a yellow hat carrying a coiled blue hose and peering up against a speckled pale background.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 11/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Seahorse is Furious (and there is NOTHING you can do about it) Morag Hood @moraghood.bsky.social Story looks at the small steps you can make even if someone is grumpy. Just being there is most important of all.

Children's book cover titled "Seahorse Is Furious" showing an angry blue seahorse on a blue background with smiling yellow fish, a smiling red crab, and smiling green seaweed

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 09/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Pizzasaurus Tammi Sauer & Kyle Beckett @tammisauer.bsky.social @kybeckett.bsky.social I was caught off guard with how funny and kid-friendly this was. Lots of puns and dino humor. Excellent read-aloud.

Cover for "PIZZASAURUS" showing a smiling orange, polka-dotted dinosaur wearing a chef's hat and holding a dripping slice of pizza beside an open pizza box.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 07/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Bear's Lost Glasses Leo Timmers Really funny. What does the world look like without glasses? Silly friendship story. Great expressions.

Cover for "Bear's Lost Glasses" showing a bear peeking from the bottom with wide eyes and red round glasses on their head.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 04/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Home Tonya Lippert & Andrea Stegmaier @andreastegmaier.bsky.social Covers a family struggling with permanent housing and different ways a home might look. Very well done and opened lots of conversations.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 02/09/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Bo The Brave Bethan Woollvin @bethanwoollvin.bsky.social Love this story of a little girl befriending the "beasts" and saving the dragon her brother went to hunt. She shows them!

Cover for "BO THE BRAVE" showing a pink-haired child in a cape standing on a mountain peak with a raised sword, surrounded by trees and clouds.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 31/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Blanket Where Violet Sits Allan Wolf & Lauren Tobia "The House That Jack Built" style while going out to the universe level. Lovely rhythm and expanding perspective.

Cover for "The Blanket Where Violet Sits" showing a family on a grassy hillside in a city, girl is bundled on a red blanket looking through a telescope at the moon.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 28/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Llama Destroys the World Jonathan Stutzman & Heather Fox Zany. Hilarious. Just perfect for silly kids. Unintended consequences conversations. Great art. Love it!

Cover for "LLAMA DESTROYS THE WORLD" bright orange background with large white title text, small cartoon llama saying "I am Llama!"

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 26/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks How to be a Lion Ed Vere @edvere.bsky.social Love this story and art. Finding courage in words and friendship.

Cover for "How to Be a Lion" showing a simple black outlined lion and a golden orange background

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 24/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Toto Hyewon Yum Really lovely. Great use of color. First day of school nervous and also fearing revealing a piece of yourself. This story is frequently requested in our house.

Cover for picture book "Toto" showing a pencil-drawn smiling young child pulling her hair back to reveal a red birthmark on her forehead.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 21/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Off-Limits Helen Yoon I'm such a fan of Yoon's books. The art is amazing and so expressive. I love the movement captured. Very cute and kid-focused.

Children's book cover for "OFF-LIMITS" showing a cartoon child with tongue-sticking out, peeking up over a desk and reaching toward office supplies

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 19/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Most Marshmallows Rowboat Watkins This is one of my all-time favs. I get it out a few times a year to reread. I love the art and using real drawn-on marshmallows. Plus the unexpected fire ending! So ROAR!

Book cover for "Most Marshmallows" showing a stacked group of drawn upon marshmallows with eyes and small accessories (party hat, goggles, red clown nose) posed like a class photo against a chalkboard

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 17/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks are you SMALL/BIG? Mo Willems I love these types of books that challenge your world perspective. As always, Mo Willems is masterful. Playful, kid-friendly. Fantastic books.

Covers for picture books "are you SMALL?" and "are you BIG?

Each with solid background color and bright titles. "Small" shows a little cutout head waving from the side, while "Big" shows half of a large red smiley face.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 14/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The River of Caregiving Jocelyn Chung & Sarah Gonzales Empathy book about how caregiving changes over time. Soft illustrations and kid friendly approach to this sometimes difficult topic.

"The River of Caregiving" book cover showing an illustration of a multigenerational family gathering and picnicking on a grassy riverbank.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 12/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Whale of a Dream Maïlys Cart-Lamy I liked the re-imagining of other famous works and the dreamscape.

Children's book cover titled "A Whale of a Dream" showing a gentle blue whale gliding through swirling, starry night skies with glowing orange moons, a child reaches toward one of the orange swirls.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 10/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Time to Leave Laverne! Lana Button & Yong Ling Kang SEL. Transitions. Stuffies help with big feelings. Relates feelings to storms. I loved this book and its sweet, struggling character!

Cover for "Time to Leave, Laverne!" with the title in a large speech bubble from above. The top of an illustrated angry young kid's face pokes out from the bottom of the book with dark thundercloud background.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 07/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Wildspeak Sangma Francis & Lexi Vangsnes Lovely nature book. With made-up words for natural phenomena plus introductions to landform words.

Cover for WILDSPEAK showing a kid in a tan explorer hat peeking through tall grass with a bird, bees, butterflies and stylized flowers.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 05/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Tears Sibylle Delacroix Lovely story that normalizes tears. Why we cry. Compassionate look at tears. Engaging illustrations.

Cover for TEARS with a pencil sketch of a wide-eyed child shedding two blue teardrops.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 03/08/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks My Pollinator Garden Jordan Zwetchkenbaum & Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Perfect summer read. About bees/pollinators and the specific plants they need.

Children's book cover for "My Pollinator Garden" showing a joyful child with glasses and a crown of flowers reaching amid bees, butterflies, a hummingbird and colorful blooms.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 31/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Only Ants for Andy Jashar Awan @jashar.bsky.social Where are my picky eaters? This book is fantastic for those with a fear of trying new foods. I love that the MC is an anteater!

Book cover for Only Ants for Andy, teal background with a pink anteater tongue looping around the title. A singular ant sits on the tip of the long tongue, while an anteater in a striped shirt holds a fork over a plate piled with ants.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 29/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A friend is a friend is a friend Sara O'Leary & Qin Leng This series is very good. This one was the 7-year-old's favorite.

Cover for "A friend is a friend is a friend" showing a slew of children laughing and climbing a large tree.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 27/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks If You Find a Leaf Aimee Sicuro Beautiful. Slightly rhyming. Lyrical. Fun, real leaves within the art. We loved picking out leaves we knew and thinking creatively about how natural items can be used in art.

Children's book cover for If You Find a Leaf. Showing a small child and dog sailing in a boat while a large red leaf serves as their sail, on blue waves beneath a soft pastel sky.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 24/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Pocket Full of Rocks Kristin Mahoney & E.B. Goodale @kmcmahoney.bsky.social @ebgoodale.bsky.social A circular story of collecting. Rocks, petals, shells, and acorns. Through the seasons. Lovely and lyrical. I adored this.

Cover for A Pocket Full of Rocks. Shows a smiling child in a yellow-and-white striped shirt cradling a handful of speckled rocks against a colorful floral background.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 22/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Tree is a Community David L. Harrison & Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Lyrical and lovely. All the life supported by a tree. Amazing!

Cover for A Tree Is A Community. Showing a large tree filled with birds and a raccoon, two children swinging from a branch beneath a bright sun.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 22/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks It finally came! Thanks to my Indie Bookstore @buffalostreetbooks.bsky.social I've been waiting months to get my own copy of ENOUGH TO SHARE by Mary Helen Berg and Sue Todd. @maryhelenberg.bsky.social @suetodd.bsky.social

Cait smiling, with short gray hair and purple glasses, holding the children's book "Enough to Share" outside.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 20/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Peddler of Puddles Beth Ferry & Tom Lichtenheld Oh so sweet. Lovely rhythm to the story. Adorable illustrations. Great summer read.

Cover for "The Peddler of Puddles" showing a turtle in a straw hat and red boots pushing a whimsical rain-making cart that pours water from a cloud, with small birds and puddles along the ground.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 17/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Speck: An Itty-Bitty Epic Margaux Meganck Lyrical. Informational fiction. Barnacle spore finding a home floating through the ocean. Very sweet and touching.

Cover for "Speck: An Itty‑Bitty Epic" showing a small glowing speck above a dense school of colorful fish on a dark blue background.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 15/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Just Flowers Erin Dealey & Kate Cosgrove @erindealey.bsky.social @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Love a good grouchy neighbor antagonist. I liked the plant names woven in. My budding green witch loved this.

Cover for Just Flowers. Showing a brown-skinned child resting on a treehouse balcony surrounded by colorful flowers and fluttering red butterflies.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 13/07/2026

So excited for my talented, beautiful CP! Go Pamela! @pamelamorganwrites.bsky.social I have this note. Which is true every time. Her writing doesn't suck 😉 and she makes it amazing each time!

Pink sticky note with "tell Pamela this doesn't suck" handwritten on it.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 13/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Honeybee Highway Shanna Upchruch & Dagmar Smith @dagmarsmith.bsky.social Great illustrations. Informative and yet engaging story about transporting bees across the county to pollinate crops. Go Disney Planet Possible Books!

Cover for The Honeybee Highway. Showing a white girl running through tall grass, bees buzzing nearby, with scattered around. Also shows a pickup truck on a country road and blossom-covered branches framing the title.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 10/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Swashby and the Sea Beth Ferry & Juana Martinez-Neal @juanamartinezn.bsky.social Very sweet. Grumpy old man and a fiddling sea befriend a little girl. Loved it.

Cover for Swashby and the Sea. Showing a small rowboat on a sandy shore with a grizzled old white man in a knit cap and a smiling black girl with large glasses beside him.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 08/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Walk the Walk R.J. Owens & Reggie Brown @reggiebrownart.bsky.social Well done informational fiction about the Montgomery Bus boycott. Sparked great conversation.

Cover for Walk the Walk. Showing a Black man and boy walking on a sidewalk past a green-and-yellow 'Cleveland Ave' bus.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 06/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Monster Mender Christine Baldacchino @christinebaldacchino.link The healing power of friendship. Allowed us to talk about depression. Beautiful and very sweet.

Cover for Monster Mender. Shows a stylized dragon curling into a large letter M while a small grey haired person touches the dragon's nose.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 04/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Volcanoes Nell Cross Beckerman & Kalen Chock @nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social @k04sk.bsky.social Gorgeous! Amazing, lyrical, nature-focused. I have the same pic of baby-faced Cait pulling lava in Hawaii too!

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 02/07/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Gitty and Kvetch Caroline Kusin Pritchard & Ariel Landy Caroline Kusin Pritchard YIDDISH words in a picture book! What fun. Cute dynamic duo and inviting, colorful illustrations.

Cover for Gitty and Kvetch. Shows excited girl and grumpy bird.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 30/06/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks I'm a Great Friend Lauren Stohler Lauren Stohler My family is Capy obsessed. Cute story about accepting yourself and finding friendsthip.

Cover for I'm a Great Friend. Shows a cartoon capybara in goggles racing foward surrounded by birds quickly flying out of the way.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 28/06/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Day with No Words Tiffany Hammond & Kate Cosgrove Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond Kate Cosgrove Lovely. Great conversation starter.

Cover for A Day with No Words. Shows a black boy in glasses looking at flowers at a playground.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 26/06/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Door Is to Open Kyo Maclear & Julie Morstad kyo maclear Beautiful. Doors both real and metaphorical. Lovely illustrations. Imaginative.

Cover for A Door Is to Open. Shows a small kid peering out through a wide gaping door

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 24/06/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks You can sit with Me Rachel Tawil Kenyon & Tatiana Kamshilina A lovely, kindness-filled poem, wrapped into a picture book.

Cover for You can sit with Me. Shows a bunch of kids sitting at a lunch table.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 22/06/2026

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Mungo On His Own Matthew Burgess & Julie Benbassat Matthew Burgess Julie Benbassat Sweet adventure of a little fox finding berries. It's a big, scary world, but memories of Mom guide him toward bravery. So cute.

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