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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

For all you Jim Woodring fans out there. A select few initiates will recognize this ancient cryptic symbol. Spotted in Tacoma near my hood. #jimwoodring

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Cover reveal, Wally Mammoth: The Sled Race! Written by Corey Tabor and moi. Corey is a natural wordsmith with picture books! This is a stack of color proofs and now it's at the printer. Mark your calendar for September 25! #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #illustration #kidlitillustrator

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

As a child, I was obsessed with the book Faeries by Brian Froud & Alan Lee. My mom wouldn't buy the book for me (the book just came out & I was 6 years old). Every time we would visit the local bookstore, I'd run to grab the book & read it. I loved the leprechaun hats! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Getting excited about my picture book illustrator debut! I just received color proofs for a picture book written by Corey Tabor and illustrated by moi. Sorry for the tease, but more info coming soon! #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #picturebookartist

Close-up image of a picture book color proof that with text saying "pictures by Dalton Webb."

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The based-on is based and bassed.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In college, Laura Ingraham went to a Gay Students meeting. The next day, she published the names of everyone in attendance in the school newspaper, at a time when being outed was dangerous. So, yeah, appointing a menace to gay people is a GREAT selection to lead our nation's [checks notes] arts.

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Tom Dougherty @misterthomaswords.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I'm looking for work in #kidlit illustration, btw. If you see this and you want to have a conversation about a project, please don't hesitate to reach out here. #illustration #cartooning #comics #kidlitart

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi… Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla. Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

From Conversations with Maurice, edited by Peter C. Kunze. This is a conversation between Dr. Seuss and Sendak in 1979. Still relevant in 2025. #kidlit #mauricesendak #drseuss

Interviewer: How do you shut out the reality of the world when you’re creating your books? Do nuclear weapons, cancer, unemployment, and pollution affect you?

Sendak: Well, there is no way you can shut out those facts unless you’re insane. Perhaps they permeate the work and color it in some particular way, but there is no magic way you can shut the door on all these things. We don’t work in “airy fairy land” when we’re doing books for children. We are dealing with real life, even though we’re using forms that are nonsensical or funny or bizarre. In fact, real life should be in the book. It has to permeate the work. I live in this world.

Seuss: They’re all there, but we look at them through the wrong end of the telescope. We change them in that way.

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PinkoJoe.com @pinkojoe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I'm organizing a comics conference at Rice University starting on March 20! Art Spiegelman will be here. You should be, too! cats.rice.edu

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Simon Bowland @simonbowland.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Anyone in need of an editor for their upcoming project? Konner is highly recommended ✅

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 04/02/2025

My why? Making books for children is a radical action, b/c becoming literate is a radical action, b/c self identifying as a reader is a radical action, b/c reading with the explicit goal of gaining self knowledge is a radical action. These are radical actions b/c they literally change the world.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

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𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕒 @malacandra.me · 26/01/2025

A lot of people in the U.S. need to read "Maus" immediately.

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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thousands of books have been targeted for removal from school and public libraries. In fact, we've been tracking thousands of book bans here. Yet, the U.S. Dept of Education released a statement calling book bans a hoax! bit.ly/4h76cS5 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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EveryLibrary Objects to Trump Administration Calling Book Bans a Hoax

Book bans have not been a Biden-era hoax, and we have the receipts to prove it.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Fun coconut head character for a freelance project back in the day. #illustration

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Jack Davis is a masterclass in illustration.

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Showing off some of my divination decks so I can make room to make a new one about every day objects. I have two right now, an Urban deck of city symbols and a Shield deck based on heraldry, grave art, and myth Packing orders and sending them out tomorrow, order now to get one asap pamwishbow.com

photo of a display of divination cards amongst candles and other totems

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 02/12/2024

Updated my Quickstart Guide for Bluesky newcomers. Feel free to share with anyone who needs it! publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/qu... Note that I've added MANY topics & resources to my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky. Use the global Search to find the topic you're interested in. #BlueSkyTips

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b. Quickstart Guide - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish

This is a bare-bones guide for those who just want to get started, and would rather just jump in and try stuff out before learning more details. Cover-QuickStartGuide-v2-flat-1024.jpg This is NOT an…

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"Start not Irish born man If you're to Ireland true We heed not race Nor creed nor clan We've hearts And hands for you." - Thomas Davis Words we can all live by, no matter where you are. Skibbereen, West Cork, Ireland

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

They have ❤Siouxsie Sioux❤ drag shows in Dublin. Why can't we have one here?

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Spotted in a bathroom at Killarney National Park, Ireland.

Sticker with the words"I have thousands more stickers, Karen."

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Spotted in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪. I always feel like I leave a little bit of myself on this green island when I leave. "Optimist, Atlantic Islander."

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I love this quote from Lisa Schneidau from Hellebore #12, the Storytelling Issue. "We rewild our stories by colouring the rich detail of the non-human as well the human. Through doing this, we bring nature back into the room with us." @helleborezine.bsky.social @lisaschneidau.bsky.social

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You need a rainbow? Here's one for you.

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Don't start shutting up on me, now. Sound off like you got a pair

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I love how Garth Williams paints nature, especially trees. From Little Fur Family, by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Garth Williams. #kidlit

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here's a screenshot from Bluey while watching the show with my daughter. She is obsessed with finding these wierd tweening glitches.

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Taking mind chatter for a walk. Going to try and leave them under a rock.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse. I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Organizing and cleaning out my studio and coming across old unfinished ideas I've created. I'm not sure where I was going with this but I like it!

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 01/07/2023

The Bluesky #kidlit community is growing! Here's a list of authors, illustrators, educators, librarians, and publishing professionals to follow: shorturl.at/AKLST And here's how to add yourself to the list: forms.gle/78Cz3ETu4xo4qsNdA

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Kidlit Community on Bluesky Social

This is a list of authors, illustrators, teachers, librarians, bloggers, publishing professionals, and other people who make and/or love books for young readers.

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Last Saturday I was in a workshop put on by @scbwiwwa where we created oracle cards to inspire creativity. In creating my cards, I took inspiration from children's flash cards with limited color palettes (highlighters in my case) and personal images that resonated with me.

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Picked up a vintage The Nonexistent Knight and The Clover Viscount by Italo Calvino with a gorgeous cover by Anne Bascove today. Look at that handlettering!

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Beach read with found note inside a used copy of Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth's The Turnip Princess.

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Dalton Webb @daltondraws.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Heyo, I'm on Bluesky now and not a bird in sight. 🐦

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