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[emmbrr]

let him cook 🍲

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[fishfingersandscarves]

first night of chanukah tonight so please enjoy this rejected puzzle design ✌️

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #chanukah #hanukkah #puzzle #kid illustration #kidlit #puzzle design #chanukiah #illustration

[whatsupbeanie]

My youngest niece and nephews agreed to be the first official reviewers for my picture book, and they said they liked it! I was particularly overwhelmed by the fact that the youngest nephew MEMORIZED the whole book because of how much he enjoyed people reading it to him ToT. I think that's the highest compliment that I've ever gotten for my work. Emi Isn't Scared of Monsters is coming out on August 2nd, 2022 and you can still preorder it now!! Go to whatsupbeanie.com/links or look it up in your local bookstores :). It's a silly story about Emi, a little girl conquering her fear of the dark to find her puppy. Book birthday so soon!!!

#bookstagram #picture book #childrensbookillustration #kidlit #comicsofinstagram #webcomic #comic #comics #childhood

[bymossypine]

Sweater weather 🍂

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[rosarrie]

waiting for the rain

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[evenstevenh]

All cats know that humans are a bad omen!

#cat #blackcat #omen #illustration #doodle #art #artwork #drawing #design #cartoon #cartoony #character #conceptart #concept #visualdevelopment #visdev #kidlit #childrensillustration #childrensbooks #painting #digitalpainting #feline

[intothestacks]

As a children's librarian, people who harass fans of Harry Potter indiscriminately really worry me.

Here's why.

1. The majority of Harry Potter fans are children.

I've had people call me disgusting and scum and an embarrassment to my disabled community. I've been suicide baited and have received death threats. All of this can be heavy enough stuff for an adult to deal with.

And then I think of how most of my 700+ elementary-aged students are huge Harry Potter fans. Because, you know, Harry Potter is a children's series. And they also have access to the internet and social media like TikTok and YouTube.

Now imagine the stuff that's been said to me being said to a kid. Because Harry Potter's main audience are KIDS.

2. This black-and-white mentality isn't healthy.

Very few things in life are cut-and-dry good vs bad. And if you employ this kind of thinking in one area of your life, odds are you'll apply it to other areas too(more on that in a moment).

And people who go out of their way to harass people who like Harry Potter don't seem to particularly care about any context beyond "If you like Harry Potter in any way whatsoever you're scum".

It hasn't mattered when I've pointed out that I absolutely and unequivocally think Rowling's TERF views are awful and scummy and wrong. It hasn't mattered that I try my best to consume the content only in ways that won't monetarily support her, (which kids typically can't do, btw). It hasn't mattered that it's literally in my job description to keep up with children's media to procure content for my patrons as well as to be able to hold conversations with them.

3. Saying "You're not allowed to read this without being harassed" is no different from saying a book should be banned.

This is ironic, seeing as the people doing the harassing are also often up in arms about queerphobic and racist book bans (as they should be) while demanding book bans of their own.

Because in their all-or-nothing way of thinking, book bans are only bad when the "bad" people do it.

No. Book bans are always bad, no exceptions.

Book bans aren't bad because they're banning the "good" books, they're bad because banning access to different ideas is always bad. Because every book has a lesson to teach us (perhaps not the lesson intended by the author, but a lesson nonetheless).

#school librarian #librarylife #libraryland #school libraries #the real life of me #libraries #elementary school #canada #harry potter fandom #harry potter #hp fandom #book banning #purity culture #kidlit #children's literature #children's librarian

[nathsketch]

Hope you all had a chance to hug your loved ones today! 🥰

Warm hugs all around!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!! 🌲💖

#my art #art #artists on tumblr #disney #paper art #the art of nathanna erica #nathsketch #children's books #character design #anna elsa and the enchanting holiday #disney books #kidlit #merry christmas #merry xmas #happy holidays #queen elsa #queen anna #frozen #paper artist

[wanlingnic]

I'm really excited to talk about the books I've been working on!

How To Be Human is a 6-book series about Starr and Tigo, two little aliens stuck on Earth. They're going on adventures, they're eating things they shouldn't, they're having a blast!

I had a great time working with the Authors, Zed Yeo (who wrote Starr's books), and Tan Yi Lin (who wrote the Tigo books).

The series can be read in any order, and recommended for little space dudes aged 5-10.

The books are in the process of being released now - so it might take a few months before all 6 books appear at your retailers. If you're in the UK, check your listings on on W H Smith. If you're in the USA, the books will be released be on Amazon. :) If you're in Singapore - get them wherever good books are sold!

I'll be sharing some character design work I did prior to starting this project soon, as well as a few illustrations I really enjoyed. Stay tuned!

#my art #kidlit #illustration #kidlitillustration

[earlgraytay]

I keep seeing discourse on my dash about whether or not we should be teaching ~challenging~/emotionally rough books in elementary and middle school, and I think there's a very important point that all of this discourse is eliding.

What counts as "too rough/traumatizing" heavily depends on the kid.

Two kids in the same class, from the same background, at the same developmental and reading level, might have wildly different reactions to a book. To take an example that's less likely to generate insufferable discourse than anything dealing with ~marginalization~:

Say you have two kids in the same class. One kid is a sensitive, sweet soul who loves dogs more than anything in the world. The other kid just lost their dog, is still grieving, and needs some catharsis.

Your class is supposed to read Old Yeller, or some other kids' book about The Death Of A Dog.

For the first kid, that book is likely to mess them up a little. It might seem like brutality for the sake of brutality. They might not fully understand the concept of death yet, or they may not be ready to grapple with the idea that dogs can die. It might be something they need to read, even if it'd mess them up- but it might also just hurt without any real benefit.

For the second kid... whether they're ready to read that book would heavily depend on how they're grieving and whether they're ready to think about a dog dying. It might trigger them and make them feel worse. But it might actually be helpful for them and make them feel less alone. Other kids have had to deal with their dogs dying and have lived through it. It might give them emotional tools they need to get through this.

But unless you know these kids really well and have the chance to tailor how you teach the book to them? You're likely to screw both of them up without any real benefit.

If they have to fill out fifty million worksheets about What The Dog Dying Means In Old Yeller, they're going to have to think about something they're not ready to think about over and over again. They're not likely to learn whatever you're trying to teach them about death or empathy or tragedy- they're just going to remember that English class was about depressing books about dogs dying and remember how much it hurt to get through. And they're going to be put off reading anything you might read in English class, because it's just going to hurt, right?

The one-size-fits-all model of education most schools are being forced to adopt means that we can't mold what kids read around what they need and are ready to hear; we have to make every kid read the same thing, at the same pace, with the same worksheets.

You can't decide, 'hey, this kid might not be ready for this particular book, here's a book that hits some of the same thematic notes but is less graphic'.

You can't take the time to make sure that a student who's reading a book that might be rough for them is okay, give them time to decompress and debrief, or let them process what they're having to deal with. You can't let them take a break from the book after they hit a point that is graphic or triggering. You can't let them sit with their feelings about it.

You can't take the time to make sure that the marginalized students in the class are okay after reading a book about oppression that affected people like them, or take the time to make sure that their non-marginalized classmates who said boneheaded things about the book know why what they said wasn't okay without publically yelling at them.

Hell, you can't even choose books based around what your students would be interested in and want to read. You have to make a lesson plan to teach like 50 students; you don't have time to pick things based around their individual likes and dislikes.

Nope. It's just on to the next book, the next worksheet, the next test.

Teachers are forced to take on classes that are way too big for any one person to manage, teach emotionally hefty books without giving kids time to process what they've learnt, and teach to tests instead of giving kids time to empathize and understand.

The problem is not specific books. The problem is not privileged people's fragility. The problem is not even individual teachers. The problem is a systemic problem with how American schools teach literature.

Until we fix the system? Yeah, plenty of kids are gonna get fucked up from reading Lord of the Flies or Where the Red Fern Grows when they're not ready to tackle it. Because their teachers do not have the time or spoons to gauge whether they're ready, and do not have the luxury of letting their students deal with things at their own pace.

#general malarkey #tumblr malarkey #my fucking industry #or well something adjacent to it #kidlit #teaching #education #i keep getting mad at posts like this because EVERYONE IS WRONG #LITCHRALLY EVERYONE

[ramoneblog]

Relax.

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[emmbrr]

blackbird for avian august!

#my art #artists on tumblr #kidlit #children’s books illustrators #avian august 2022 #blackbird #pattern design #inspired by a bunch of vidya games #and otgw and other cozy stuff

[fishfingersandscarves]

finally got copies of my first published books through the Bright Agency !!!!!!

they're part of the Irish learning package for Gill Education 😤😤😤👏👏👏👏🇮🇪

#talkies #personal tag #publishing #kidlit #kidlitart #kid illustration #language learning #YEAHHHHH THATS RIGHT I GOT BOOKSSSS

[alyssamariag]

A year ago today we met tv Joel and Sarah, and I met Joel and Sarah for the first time ever at all. Like the rest of us, I fell in love immediately and then knew what it was to have my heart broken in under an hour.

Someone emailed me and asked if I could recreate the polaroid we that we barely see of Joel on Sarah’s bulletin board in E1 (and don’t have a good photo of). I did my best— I hope I did that strong, happy version of Joel justice 🖤

#illustration #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #kidlitart #illustrators on instagram #kidlit #pedro pascal fanart #pedro pascal art #pedro pascal #the last of us #tlou hbo #tlou #sarah tlou #tlou season 1 #tlou series #tlou fanart #the last of us fanart #joel miller #joel miller fanart

[bymossypine]

🐇🍄 A moment of rest

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[rosarrie]

more kidlit art i never posted

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