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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Our new picture book will be out in March 2026 :-) Hope you’ll have a chance to read it. 🍀🌟 Happy Holidays and Take Care 🍀😘

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Sharing another great @charlessantoso.bsky.social illustration from POCKET BEAR. Charles's art adds so much to the text. I'm a lucky author, indeed. 💛🧸 @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #mglit

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just delighted to see POCKET BEAR on The Week Junior's list of the year's best books. 🧸🧵 It's a great group of titles—something for every kind of reader. 💛 kids.theweekjunior.com/bookclub @charlessantoso.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

A graphic of The Week Junior's 10 best middle grade books of 2025, including my novel POCKET BEAR.

POCKET BEAR was named "Best Animal Story"!

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

If you're reading #Odder (or the new ODDER picture book) in the classroom this year, I highly encourage you to check out @mackidssl.bsky.social's great resources and activities. 💙🦦 They're fabulous, and available to download on my website: katherineapplegate.com/educator-res...

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Join us in wishing a happy book birthday to ODDER: AN OTTER'S STORY by @kaaauthor.bsky.social, the picture book adaptation of her bestselling and beloved middle grade novel in verse! It's A Junior Library Guild Selection you won't want to miss 🦦❤️ bit.ly/3YoVT4K

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Odder: An Otter's Story (Picture Book)

A stunning picture book from acclaimed author Katherine Applegate, adapted from the #1 bestselling middle-grade novel that spent over 52 weeks on the New Yor...

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Happy Odder picture book Birthday!! So happy to have the book finally out in the world. Thank you to the wonderful @kaaauthor.bsky.social , Liz Szabla and Rich Deas for their trust in me. 🍀❤️ I hope you’ll have a chance to read our book. 🦦

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AISLE Bluestem Award @bluestemaward.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Huge congratulations to our 2025 Bluestem Award Winner, Odder, @kaaauthor.bsky.social, and @charlessantoso.bsky.social! . Additional congrats to Alina Chau for Marshmallow & Jordan and to @claribelortega.bsky.social and Rose Bousamra for Frizzy!

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Meet POCKET BEAR. 🧸 His is a tale of bravery, loyalty, & kindness. It’s a reminder that love comes in many forms. And that second chances are always possible. On sale September 9. Illustrated by @charlessantoso.bsky.social. To preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

The cover of my new book, POCKET BEAR. Pocket, a golden teddy bear with a blue scarf, sits in a patch of grass. A long-haired grey cat is curled around him.

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So honored to be the Collaborative Summer Library Program's 2025 Summer Reading Champion! Librarians are MY reading champions, so I can’t wait to see all the ways that you adopt the #ColorOurWorld theme with your young patrons. Learn more & watch my video message: www.cslpreads.org/nationalsumm...

A Collaborative Summer Library Program graphic announcing Katherine Applegate as the 2025 Summer Reading Champion.

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Calling all librarians! The team at Collaborative Summer Library Program is kicking off summer reading on March 5 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Registration is open to all CSLP participating libraries. Hope to see you there! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SummerReadingChampion #ColorOurWorld

A graphic encouraging participating libraries to register for the Collaborative Summer Library Program's 2025 Summer Reading Kickoff event on Zoom.

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Coming soon! I've adapted my #mglit novel ODDER into a picture book illustrated by the one and only @charlessantoso.bsky.social. It's called ODDER: AN OTTER'S STORY, and it comes out on April 29. 🩵🦦 Pre-order here: buff.ly/3ZugzrF

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year!! Thank you for all your support in 2024 😊🙏🍀

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Dear Duck, Please Come! is out for pre-order. This was such a fun book to illustrate. Thank you for the great story Sarah Mackenzie and wonderful art director Cara Llewellyn for the great collaboration. the book will be officially out in Jan 2025! Yay!

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

When I hear or read comments that said “the message wasn’t clear” about a film or a book… .. I know a fairy died of an old age somewhere.. (rip several fairies today 🙏)

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Another collaboration from Kobi Yamada and me. Thank you for giving this one a chance 🍀🙏🦥

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Some of my picture book collaborations with the wonderful Caron Levis 😊

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Here’s the chosen sketch and final illustration for @kaaauthor.bsky.social Wiloodeen middle-grade book 😊

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Happy Book Birthday to Mighty Muddy Us!! Written by Caron Levis and illustrated by yours truly 🌟🐘🐘🌟 Edited by Emma Ledbetter (i’m so lucky) 🍀😊 and AD was Natalie Padberg Bartoo (Thank you, Natalie!) I’m bias but I think story is so sweet! Hope you have a chance to read it. Thank you! 😃

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello all, I LOVE books. I love the look, textures, smell of great books. I illustrated several picture pictures and decorated some middle-grade books. I have love-hate relationships with drawing and painting. They said that means that I care.

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

#Bookaday I added Odder: An Otter's Story (Picture Book), by @kaaauthor.bsky.social and @charlessantoso.bsky.social, to my 2025 Books I Love presentation: www.pinterest.com/mrschureads/...

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Carren Jao @carrenjao.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

📚👍 I'm only a late fan of Halloween, but Gideon Sterer's prose and @charlessantoso.bsky.social 's illustrations in "I Will Read to You" help set a world where a child is just as supernatural and unexpectedly sweet as the ghouls and monsters they call out to. #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #KidLit

Inside illustration of "I Will Read to You" features skeletons dancing, being called on by the reader in the story.

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I’m so humbled that Ida, Always still helping some people coping with grief 🍀

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Karen Beilharz @kbeilz.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

@charlessantoso.bsky.social Spotted in the wild in Moss Vale, NSW.

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 21/11/2023

20+ #picturebooks a week, my favs below Week 36 #libraryhaul #kidlitchat #kidlit #kidlitcommunity I Will Read to You - Gideon Sterer & @charlessantoso.bsky.social The Gentle Genius of Trees - Philip Bunting The Night Tent - @landisblair.bsky.social Vampenguin - Lucy Ruth Cummins

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Chasing Dreams - my 3rd collaboration with Kobi can now be found in stores 🍀🦋🦝🌟 #pencil #racoon #dreams

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

One of my favs spreads to work on from Dear Unicorn picture book, written by @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social 🦄🌟

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

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Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

🫢Oops! Updated ad with correct dates 🗓️SAVE THESE DATES!! 🤩The OCT lineup for Gab 'n' Doodle on Insta Tune in Thursdays in Oct, 8pm ET & ask questions! HANNAH BESS ROSS 10/5 CHARLES SANTOSO 10/12 @charlessantoso.bsky.social MIKE BOLDT 10/19 ADAM MING 10/26 @adamming.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart

Ad for Gab ‘n’ Doodle on Instagram, October 2023. For each illustrator, there’s an image of one of their books

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Happy Birthday Dear Unicorn! Wheee! @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social 🌟🦄🌟🦄🌟

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Josh Funk @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Today's the day! My 19th book, DEAR UNICORN, is now available! By now you know the drill. I'm giving away 19 copies along with another favorite . For the final giveaway: MIGHTY MUDDY US by Caron Levis & @charlessantoso.bsky.social To enter: ✅ FOLLOW ❤️ LIKE 🔃 RT/QT BONUS: 👉 COMMENT & TAG A FRIEND

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Charles Santoso @charlessantoso.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Thank you for the lovely review, School Library Journal! 🍀👻🍀

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Josh Funk @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Sometimes when you shop at independent bookstores, you can get books before their official release dates. Sometimes even MUCH earlier than their OCTOBER release dates. Very excited about these titles by Travis Jonker, Caron Levis, & and Charles Santoso. (No, I won’t out the shop 😉)