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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wish I had known about Kyo Maclear's 4-wk craft class last year, but I'm signed up this year! Guests: Mattew Forsythe, Shaun Tan, Grace Lin, & Julie Flett. Woah! Introductions have started and it's quite group! Register here: offassignment.com/picture-book... #Kidlit

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Writing Picture Books 2026 — Off Assignment

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🌿 Brisk, beautiful, tragic, informative, and hopeful—amazingly, all at once. A great read aloud, intro to fire ecology, and conversation starter on new beginnings after loss. 🌿 From @louisemaamodt.bsky.social l & Elly MacKay 📚👍🏼 #Kidlit

Cover of the picture book A Forest Begins Anew. A small blue bird stands on a jagged tree stump with dark ground all around and fresh green plants growing up.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

👉 New Inked Voices workshops with pros! app.inkedvoices.com/events?types... 👉 PB, is members only. Join now to be in lottery round 2, advantaged next season if you don't get anything. 👉 You can get 10% off your membership fee with a referral link. app.inkedvoices.com/signup/?refe... #Kidlit

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Inked Voices - Online Writing Groups & Workshops

Join online writing groups for constructive feedback and critique. Connect with writers, improve your craft, and get your work published.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ya'll this is such an amazing opportunity—editor feedback on both your opening and the overall story! I can't believe it's not full! #KidlitCommunity #MiddleGrade #YA I'm facilitating, so DM me if you're considering it but have questions or worries.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

🩵 🌧️ Little Monk Writes Rain is so tender, fresh, and beautiful, I've found it impossible to review. 🌧️🩵 Thank you @ebyrbooks.bsky.social for bringing us voices from around the world. We sooooo need them. #KidLit 📚👍🏼

Oval framed watercolor of a bald monk kneeling at a table and painting the word for rain on paper with green hills around him. Cover of Little Monk Writes Rain.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

🤗 #kidlit / #YA #nonfiction writers 🤗 Wouldn't it be a relief to have an experienced NF writer guide you step-by-step through the process of building a great manuscript? @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social does just that in TELLING IT TRUE, out now from Amazon: a.co/d/e7jfqZK Coming soon on Bookshop!🔥

Author Kirsten Larson holding up her new craft book, TELLING IT TRUE: HOW TO WRITE NONFICTION KIDS (AND TEENS) WANT TO READ. A simple, light blue cover with a stock image of a typewriter over the title.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🫶🏼 💚 Salmon Run 💚 🫶🏼 by Annie Chen Watercolors transport the reader to a water world, revealing the salmon's lifecycle. So simple, so elegant. It's enough to learn one beautiful thing about the world. 🐟 📚👍🏼 @anniechenwrites.bsky.social @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social

Cover of _Salmon Run_ by Annie Chen. A watercolor illustration of the life cycle of salmon with green underwater plants swirling around a full grown salmon and it's earlier life stages as they circle a glowing orange egg.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

💖💀💖 Delightfully peculiar stories. Marvelous illustrations. 💖💀💖 Little dips in the quiet life of Gram, Gramps, and... a skeleton. 🫶🏼💀🫶🏼 Named John. 🫶🏼💀🫶🏼 📚👍🏼 Yay Yonder/Restless books for bringing such a beautiful read out in translation.

Pink and gray cover of John the Skeleton by Triinu Laan, illustrated by Marja-Liisa Plats, translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen. A skeleton gently waves its hand while red snails crawl all over it.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

✨The magical mind of @carolynfisher.bsky.social has turned measuring (& its arbitrary conventions) into delight and play.✨ 🐋 So freakin' clever. 🦕 Plus, AWESOME backmatter: There IS a 1 cm species of centipede! (I was skeptical.) And I love donkey power! (Units!) 📚👍🏼 @kidscanpress.bsky.social

Cover of the picture book I'm Longer Than You: An Epic Contest of Measurement by Carolyn Fisher. A cartoon blue whale and supersaurus share a red speech bubble with the title in it.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Re-posting this review with 📚👍🏼 to make the Kidlit Boosters feed!

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Marvelous drawings of a traffic jam and that rain-heavy sky and so many looking away, as a kitten crosses traffic. But someone... _screeech!_ A meditation a provocation a call to be late... just in time. I kept thinking, "We're all this kitten." 👍🏼📚 @ebyrbooks.bsky.social

Cover of the picture book Late Today by Jungyoon Huh, illustrated by Myungae Lee, translated by Aerin Park. A black kitten sits under a car in the rain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223924760-late-today?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zdqP0ZT9bw&rank=1

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

🌙 👽 So gentle and wise, this one. And funny. 👽 🌙 My 7-yo niece says it's "one of the best books ever." And repeats and repeats the title with dramatic glee. We Are _Definitely_ Human by X. Fang is definitely delightful. May quiet books rule again. 📚👍 TY Tundra Books!

Cover of We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang. Three purple and blue aliens floating against a starry black sky with their flying saucer.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Even in the middle of the woods, readers need to know. #library #kidlitcommunity

Color photograph of a wooden sign nailed to a tree in the middle of the woods with the word "library" and a right pointing arrow on it.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🌊🚢 Gold belt chains, hidden bombs, and deadly fires. Find fascinating shipwrecks in these luminous spreads with beautifully balanced lyrical and informational text. 🫶🏼🚢 🌊 Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social 📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera

Cover of _Shipwreck_ created by Deirdre Laide and Carlos Velez Aguilera: a ship at the bottom of the ocean.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🧙🧙 I adore the emotional arc in This Year, a Witch! 📚👍🏼 This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get. She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

All things bright and beautiful! 🩷🧡💛🩵💜

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🐋🐋 What a book! 🐋🐋 This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼 From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️ and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️

The cover of In the World of Whales words by Michelle Cusolito, illustrated by Jessica Lanan. Two adult sperm whales lift a baby to breathe at the surface while a free diver looks on from below.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🐞🌿🧠 After a brief hiatus for budget reasons, I just rejoined @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social's Reimagine Insiders community. Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖 writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Working class occupations are sooooo underrepresented in #Kidlit. More of this please! @jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color. 📚👍🏼 #KidLit

Colorful cover of Papa's Magical Water Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo and Eliza Kinkz. A boy rides a purple skateboard with a red water jug down a suburban sidewalk, as his father was a lawn in the background.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Yay! So excited for this one! The world needs it!

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This work! It is so everything. Beautiful, painful, sharp, sly, but most of all--beautiful. I've just requested every Zahra Marwan book available to me on interlibrary loan. #kidlitartpostcard

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🤗 I. Was. This. Kid. 🤗 I wanted to write a PB on this but never found the story. @jashar.bsky.social did it--charmingly. But ignore the promo copy. It's not a "surprising celebration of community helpers". No, no, it's about loving the-- well... you'll see. 📚👍🏼

Yellow cover of Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan. A cartoon little girl dragging a chair past a window through which you can see the front of a big truck.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I ❤️💚💜 🌋🌋🌋Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social Every little bit is playful! I love the authorial asides and the hunt for the one detail that is not true--a wonderful way to make this fantastical (but real) story extra believable. #PB #NF 📚👍🏼

Cover of Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson shows a volcanic island in brilliant blue and red, with a Norse god figure under the water and lava pouring down the volcano. Two figures stand silhouetted on the shore, arms up, as if hailing someone.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Who can possibly resist this big-hearted, spunky elf? And when have Christmas colors ever been so soft and fresh? 💚💞💜 #KidLit

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Great anti generative-AI statement from developmental editor @juliescheina.com. I see enough prominent folks in the #KidlitCommunity softening to AI that I am extra glad for every clear NO.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

WOW! Two awesome @charlesbridge.bsky.social #STEM #PictureBooks from @sarahalbee.bsky.social and illustrators Chris Hsu and Eileen Ryan Ewan! ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T and BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER Sooooo much fascinating information in a kid friendly form. 📚👍🏼 #KidLit

Orange cover of ZERO! THE NUMBER THAT ALMOST WASN'T. Variety of people from past ages chasing after a number zero which is running away.

Cover of BOUNCE! A SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF RUBBER. Shows a big red ball flying through a field of blue, with tiny background figures having fun with rubber and diagrams of rubber molecules.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Speak out for LIBRARIES! 📚📚📚

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's my fourth year helping amphibians cross the road, and I can still hardly believe these beauties live hidden all around me. #BigNight #MaineWildlife #Amphibians

Large yellow-spotted, gray salamander in open hands. (A spotted salamander)

Nighttime roadside with two white women in safety vests. One is crouching to release a spotted salamander safely across the road.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"I wanted...to tell you that what matters is that you like your own hat, hat-wearing female dog. Who is this guy anyway, some sort of dog hat expert?? Who cares what he thinks??? Wear a hat you love and if he doesn’t like it? F*#% him." theuglyvolvo.com/an-open-lett... #KidLit #PictureBook

Cover of GO, DOG. GO! By P.D. Eastman. A cartoon dog driving a yellow car at top speed.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I just finished re-reading THE TOMBS OF ATUAN by LeGuin and found it just as stunning as I did 25 years ago. What a book. Beautifully conceived, gorgeously composed. 📚👍🏼 #MGLit #Kidlit

Old paper back cover of THE TOMBS OF ATUAN with a girl in a small boat is a red sale approaching a white city with high turrets and penants flying.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I'd love to connect with #kidlitcommunity folks in the National Writers Union ( @thenwu.bsky.social ). Anybody? Or is NWU mostly unknown with KidLit and YA creators?

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Real men go out for firewood in the snow--barefoot. Well, at least mine does.

Snowy porch floor with barefoot prints next to a firewood pile.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#klitartpostcard day is pure joy. I take particular pleasure in two things: 1) I consistently adore the same illustrators over and over, even when I don't at first recognize who it is. 2) I always discover someone new. ❤️

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I seriously thought I could pop into the library and pick up just a few PBs about the ocean. 28 selections (on everything) later... #KidLit #PictureBooks

Tall, twisty stack of library picture books.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#KidLitCommunity: We are creative. We ❤️ DEI. We spam for a better world. Go! enddei.ed.gov

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Discovery of the day: 📚The Briar Patch bookstore in Bangor, Maine has a stunningly wellstocked picture book nonfiction section. 📚 AND you can order from them too: 👉 briarpatchbooks.square.site

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

💚 🕷️🕷️ BOG MYRTLE by Sid Sharp 🕷️🕷️ 💚 🕸️ is simply marvelous in every respect. 🕸️ Great writing, delightful illustrations, excellent politics, and even organized labor! Bold, funny, tender, radical. ✊🏼 I enjoyed Sharp's first book (WOLF SUIT), but I LOVE this one. 📚👍🏼 #GraphicNovel #MiddleGrade #KidLit

Brightly colored cover of Sid Sharp's graphic novel Bog Myrtle. A girl in a red dress looking over complex wild land to where a magical being peers out from behind a hill.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In this gray box sits a Buddha centuries old I know because I have climbed the mossed steps in summer, and--shelter gone-- stood before that peace more true even, when come winter, I must remember believe seek the gilt image within

Photograph of a small grey structure, like a shed, in snowy woods.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

For everyone needing something hopeful to do... How about helping amphibians safely cross the roads this spring on the way to their ponds to mate? Here's the Maine project: mainebignight.org lots of places with good amphibian populations have similar projects.

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Maine Big Night: Amphibian Migration Monitoring

Amphibians, community, science

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

this morning only tea, fire, snowy trees through every window, talk with Larry, dozing for hours my sole accomplishment: discovering the bird with tie and briefcase in A Sick Day for Amos McGee 📚👍🏼 #KidLit

Pencil illustration of a sidewalk with a small bird wearing a tie and carrying a briefcase.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

People care. People are fighting. Please don't think that no one cares. Please fight back where you can. Maybe you can't march. Call your reps. Reach out to local orgs to volunteer, or donate what you have. Build ties in your community. There is something you are good at. Use it to fight for good.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I 🩵 the @5calls.org app but think we're losing effectiveness by playing whack-a-mole with all the issues. All come down to ONE--the coup. Dems are still soft and republicans mush. We need to push them to use every bit of their REAL power. indivisible.org/resource/exp...

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EXPLAINER: How Senate Democrats Can Delay & Defy Trump's Agenda with Procedural Hardball

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