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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s #KidLitArtPostcard Day! My published books were both illustrated digitally but I also love using traditional materials, and I hope that I will have many books to come that look just like this, full of chickens and lovely textures and fun 🧡 Check out zoevsrobots.com to see more of my art 🫶

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 25/03/2025

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I’m looking for samples of cute, cozy (Cozy? Yes, cozy), anthropomorphic, vehicles for a new board book. Please respond with relevant samples. Please no DMs. 💙❤️ #kidlitart

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“It’s important to take your puppy to the vet for regular check-ups and vaccines. After all, a healthy puppy is a happy puppy!” #KidLitArt

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It’s #publicationday for Un monstre vit dans ma tête!!! Childhood anxiety is a serious subject, and this book does a great job of making the topic accessible for the Littles (and their Grownups!). www.zoevsrobots.com/books for deets ⭐️ #KidLitArt #CanLit #illustrator

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Check it out, I’m in the Canadian #KidLit #Illustrator starter pack - looking forward to connecting with more creators ☺️⭐️ go.bsky.app/NrTPNQf

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Canadian 🇨🇦 KidLit Artists & Illustrators Starter Pack is up! Pls check it out and share! #kidlit #kidlitart #starterpack

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Hi Charlene - I’m as Canadian as it gets, please add me! Thanks @charlottewenger.bsky.social for tagging me. www.zoevsrobots.com is my site. Thanks! 🍁

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! My name is Zoë, I’m an author/illustrator from Québec, and I love using textured brushes by @schrill-art.bsky.social in @procreate.com to create my drawings. I also love living on Planet Earth 🌎 You can find out all about me at www.zoevsrobots.com Thx friends ⭐️🫶🤘☺️

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My new book, Un monstre vit dans ma tête, written by Émilie Côté-Roy and published by Gründ Québec is coming to stores March 21!!! Eep! #kidlitart #bookannouncement #illustrator

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Here's a Valentine's Day card I made for my kiddo - it says "Vicky, I love you more than you love ketchup!" <3 Happy V-Day. #KidLitArt #ValentinesDay

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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 09/02/2025

Whoa. Just got granted access to the beta version of @flashes.blue and it works exactly like Insta, but, it’s also… your Bluesky account. This displays the value proposition of @atproto.com better than anything else I’ve seen. This is the way.

A screenshot of a feed on Flashes. It looks just like Insta.

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Adam Ming @adamming.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I made a gift for you, I took my top 20 paid newsletters and distilled it into this blueprint, and I’m making it a gift to you for FREE: www.tenminuteartist.com/p/free-child...

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Yes, it's an x-mas illo in February but with good reason: I just finished working on my first author-illustrator picture book! Files are sent, images approved, my work here is done 😎 Mon livre est en français ! Y-a-t-il la vie franco sur Bluesky? #KidLitArt #authorillustrator #litteratureqc

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hahaha, thank you! I have so many more of these on my hard drive, one day I'll illustrate them all (adding to Pile of Dreams)

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Miriam Bos @miriambos.com · 07/02/2025

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! (just a tad bit late) I'm a children's book illustrator & author from the Netherlands. My books are published in (amongst other countries) France, Germany & Italy. My dream is to see them in English too someday. (My UK & USA friends keep nagging me😂) #kidlitart #kidlit"

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thanks so much, Deb :) I feel like many of us have been there 😅 I appreciate the kind words!

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Reginald Goat Has eaten my coat, Even the zipper and buttons! And meaner than that, He's eaten my hat! ...Goats are such terrible gluttons. [takes bow] #KidLitArt #authorillustrator #poetry

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

At the end of Princess Mononoke, with death and chaos all around them, San despairs: "It's over. Everything is over. The forest is dead." Ashitaka replies: "Nothing is over. The two of us are still alive." Let's all be like Ashitaka. #miyazaki #hope

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robyn 🎃 @haykebyr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

trying to remember that shitty art is better than no art so I gotta just draw whatever and not worry about it. can't get better if I'm not even doing it at all

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you Eleanor! I'm glad you like them :) This one was very fun to make.

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you Kerry! Yes, this one is definitely based on a true story 😁 Happily my bigger kid can now read to my littler kid, so my falling asleep doesn't bring story time crashing down anymore 😅

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hey, it's my first #kidlitartpostcard day on Bluesky! I'm Zoë, an author-illustrator from Québec, Canada. I like drawing kids being kids, the joyful chaos of daily life, silly animals, fish with robot legs, and sundry nonsense. www.zoevsrobots.com for more fun, and all the details 🫶 #kidlitart

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

2 things I love: 1. drawing kids doing "classic kid" stuff (like if you were playing Kid Bingo, self-administered haircut would be on there) 2. pushing prompts to the edge of their interpretations. this was in response to the prompt "tinker" #kidlitart #illustration #authorillustrator

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What a remarkable artist and storyteller. The Man in the Ceiling remains one of my most beloved books, I reread regularly and gift to every kid I know. Thanks for all the fun, Jules 🖤 #julesfeiffer

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

i'd like to make more big pieces with traditional media and i profoundly Don't Know What I'm Doing, so I'm trying to practice a lot with smaller pieces like this. she started off as a sketchbook something and now Behold! #kidlitart #illustrator #picturebookart

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Thank you! I love yours, the atmosphere is so emotionally true - like, we've all been there, next to a big looming darkness... bravo 👏

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Huh, I can't seem to ever post from my camera roll, so I keep having to dig into the archives to post from my file folder. Happily, there's some good stuff in there. Made this using #Procreate and brushes by @maxulichney.bsky.social (watercolour set) last year #illustration #digitalart #tekenuurtje

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I know! it's so easy to get stuck focused on all the things you're NOT doing (not making enough content, not writing enough, not finishing enough, not on enough platforms, etc. etc.) - milestones (like book birthdays) are a good reminder to give that pat on the back.

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I like to separate things into "Dreams" and "Goals". A Dream is something I would love to happen but is further outside my control (e.g. I Dream of quitting my day job to be a full-time artist). A Goal is something I can do and quantify. (e.g. I will make 10 portfolio pieces in 2025) #kidlitart

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

You might enjoy @schrill-art.bsky.social if you don't already follow her. She makes lovely textured brushes for Procreate and your art reminds me of hers in some ways ☺️

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

At this time last year, I was getting ready for my first picture book to hit the shelves. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it is ✨fine and good✨ to sit back and think that I did a Good Job at something. Why does it feel illegal to do that? General reminder: it's not! #kidlitart #illustration

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

especially love the carrot and their little trousers!

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hi, welcome to my Bluesky! My name is Zoë, I'm a picture book maker (and poet, and musician, and passionate sketchbook-keeper) from Oka, QC. Nice to meet you! I hope you find something here that makes you smile. www.zoevsrobots.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

‘The Peace of Wild Things’ - Wendell Berry (2018)

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thinking about how important it is to keep making beautiful things. #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration #picturebookmaker

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JacobWalkerArt @jacobwalkerart.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Always relevant.

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Awesome! Good reading list here :)

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hello, good morning, here are some dogs I drew. Drew these back in 2023, and I still like them so much. It's so pleasant when you look back on previous works and feel happy to see them, like old friends. #kidlitart #authorillustrator #childrensbookartist

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

thank you! sometimes i go a little overboard with drawing glasses, but i just can't help it, i love them so much :D

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Zoë Robertson @zoevsrobots.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hello! I am a picture book maker, and I'm looking for new friends on bluesky. I like to post my drawings and sketchbook stuff and talk about making art. High fives if you are into these things :) #kidlitartist #authorillustrator

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