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carterhiggins.bsky.social
✂️ Author/Illustrator of books for young readers and artists 👀 Playful, visual storytelling 🏆 Emmy-winning compositor 📚 Once a librarian, always a librarian https://www.carterhiggins.com/
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So @jerroldconnors.bsky.social is one of the smartest creators in the kidlit business and I always enjoy learning from him -- specifically about the art of illustration. I think you all should read this highly fascinating post of his. jerroldconnors.com/2025/02/23/p...

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Congratulations, @emmykastner.bsky.social! 100scopenotes.com/2025/02/20/e...

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A fun one! Listen up! 📚

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Check out the case cover for Let’s Be Bees!

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Ruth Chan and I talk about making CABOOSE on The Yarn podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/536689/episo... @ohtruth.bsky.social

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Happy book birthday to @100scopenotes.bsky.social and @ohtruth.bsky.social's Caboose!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The Moon, by Gary Hume, 2009

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This is always a fun thread! The details! 👀

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‘Tis the season! 💌

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Here’s where Mark and I show you the very best glue sticks to ever have stuck. 💯🎨✂️

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

A countdown for our calendar flip! Here’s to hooray-ing in 2025. 🎉 (from ROUND AND ROUND THE YEAR WE GO, Holiday House/Neal Porter Books 📚)

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Day 27: 31 Days, 31 Lists - Books Celebrating a Love of Nature and the Environment. Essentially these are nature and climate books inspired by my library's Blueberry Award. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/27/3...

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s a charming song to wrap up your year—round and round we’ve gone and round and round we’ll keep going! Big thanks to longtime pal Emily Arrow for the music and lyrics and Neal Porter Books/Holiday House for publishing ROUND AND ROUND THE YEAR WE GO. For you! ☀️🌷❄️🍂🎶🐭 youtu.be/aWA3ZU_D91o?...

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More! 🎉

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It's here—your submissions, your favorites! Congrats all around! 🎉📚👀

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Love this collection of Brightly's Best Picture Books of 2024—partly because ROUND AND ROUND is here and partly because there are so so many good books to catch up on this year. Hooray all around! www.readbrightly.com/picture-book...

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Loved talking with Junior Library Guild recently, all about my time as both a JLG librarian and JLG author/illustrator. What a treat! www.juniorlibraryguild.com/blog/post/q-... 📚

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Cover of the Year, Gatefold of the Year, Dedication of the Year: It’s time to take a look back at the year that was in children’s lit miscellanea. 100scopenotes.com/2024/12/10/2...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time! ⬇️🗳️👀

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Oh my goodness! How did I miss this? ONE SWEET SONG is on this list with so many beautiful books including mentor Carole Boston Weatherford and writer friends Randi Sonenshine and @carterhiggins.bsky.social. Such a sweet, delightful surprise and honor 😍🥰 @candlewickpress.bsky.social #soniasánchez

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Well, this is fun! (Also fun to see ‘whatchagonnado’ as the punctuation to Betsy’s stellar take here!) 📚

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If you see this, post a bunny! 🐇✨

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Toying with a new starter pack full of creative people who hire creative people. If that’s you, and you’re not currently included, let me know, and I’ll add you! P.S. I realize “creative” is a big bucket. Please note that the focus is on the visual arts. go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

submitted 85 days ago • 17 comments

Happy Monday! I was just reflecting on what a *year* this was—one that has been unpredictable, unsettling, and just plain hard. And then remembered I made this book. Time keeps cycling, and there’s some comfort in that. Right? ☀️🌷❄️🍂

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Hello, Blue world! I’ve missed you. Where’s the library? When is snacktime? What are you reading? 🦋

submitted 98 days ago • 14 comments