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🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee 🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator 📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian 😴 Current tired mom 🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching heybrookebaum.com

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Just found out that I was chosen as SCBWI-Wisconsin's Member of the Month! Holy moly! Thank you!!! #scbwi #wisconsin #kidlit #kidlitart #pbrisingstars @scbwi.bsky.social @jpuglow.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Y'all, my daughter didn't cry once today on her first day of preschool. She literally didn't even look back. 😭 #parenting #preschool

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

My daughter starts preschool tomorrow and I'M SO CLOSE TO LOSING IT. Please share positive "first day of preschool' stories. 😭😭😭 #parenting #preschool

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

You know, considering a yard sale is basically just a pile of old junk on your lawn, it sure is a lot of work. Why did I decide to do this again!?!? 🫠😅

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I have a joke about Echo but I'll just be repeating myself.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The brilliant @phoebewahl.bsky.social has made her ABOLISH ICE poster available as a free download for protest signs. phoebewahl.shop/products/fre...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

You guys, if you haven't read ROBINSON'S NEW THING by @jamills.com yet...Buy it, read it, love it, buy it again for a friend. It's wonderful. 😍 #kidlit #kidlitart #pb #booksky

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

You know what I’m doing on Saturday, June 14th? Leveling up my #kidlitart #kidlit Career @brianlarossa.com

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This might be the best gif I've ever seen. 😂 Please order THERE'S SOMETHING ODD ABOUT THE BABYSITTER by @elaynecrain.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitchat

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee profiles are officially live. 👀 So, yeah, I'm basically famous now. www.pbrisingstars.com/mentees #kidlit #kidlitart @pbrisingstars.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

3yo: What are you doing, Mama? Me: Just cleaning up your room a bit. 3yo: So I can make it messy again! Me: Pretty much, yeah. #parenting

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I got wonderful news today! I AM STUCK is the 2025 winner of the Charter Oak Children's Book Award. This award is chosen by k through 3 grade students in Connecticut. It makes me so happy to know that so many children love turtle and possum! #kidlit #authorillustrator

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

submitted 12 days ago • 73 comments