© Nicole Monahan April 12, 2024 vol. 15 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Nicole Monahan. Kid Lit News Sourcebooks Hires Two Editors from HarperCollins Picture Book Giveaway We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book, Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space, by Melissa Trempe and Natalia Ojeda ..read more

© Nicola Scofield  April 1, 2024 We are pleased to feature Nicole Schofield and her April banner design for Kidlit411 in our Illustrator Spotlight.   © Nicola Scofield Tell us about yourself and how you came to illustrate for children. I spent huge amounts of time reading and drawing as a kid and I always wanted to be an artist when I grew up. Not realising illustration was an actual career, I studied physics and made art alongside whatever job I had. After selling watercolours for a few years, then completing various freelance illustration projects I wanted ..read more

© Emma Graham  March 29, 2024 vol. 13 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Emma Graham. Kid Lit News The Middle Grade Slump 'Authors Against Book Bans' Mobilizes Middle Grade Giveaway We are pleased to host a giveaway of the middle grade novel, Sing It Like Celia, by Mónica Mancillas (Penguin Workshop) coming out on April 2. Enter to ..read more

  © Sheree Tomba March 22, 2024 vol. 12 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Sheree Tomba. A Kidlit411-Hosted FREE Webinar on Author Goals & Promotion April 11 8 - 9 pm ET (FREE) Creating an Author Success Map: Identifying, Personalizing, and Working Toward Success Benchmarks in Your Writing Career You've written a book, but no ..read more

© Sophie Furman   March 15, 2024 vol. 11 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Sophie Furman. Kid Lit News 'Authors Against Book Bans' Mobilize ALA Reports Record Spike in Book Titles Challenged in 2023 Picture Book Giveaway  We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book, Wake Up, Woodlands, by Karen Jameson, illustra ..read more

  © Maru Vargas March 8, 2024 vol. 10 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Maru Vargas. Picture Book Giveaway We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book, Small Things Mended, by Casey W. Robinson, illustrated by Nancy Whitesides (Rocky Pond Books), out on March 19. Enter to win a copy via the Rafflecopter below.   &nb ..read more

  © Sarah Kurpiel March 1, 2024 vol. 9 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Sarah Kurpiel.  Kid Lit News Booksellers Assess a Changing Tween Scene Illustrator Spotlight We are pleased to feature illustrator Moira Ratchford and her banner design for Kidlit411. Check out her amazing work!  © Moira Ratchford Middle Gr ..read more

© Moira Ratchford  Mar. 1, 2024 We are pleased to feature illustrator Moira Ratchford and her banner design for Kidlit411. Check out her amazing work!  © Moira Ratchford     Tell us about yourself and how you came to illustrate for children.   I've loved drawing since I got my first box of Crayolas as a kid, which felt like I'd been given a rainbow-hued magic wand. Being able to create whatever I wanted on a blank sheet of paper was endlessly engaging. Soon I had a comic strip that I sold to classmates, and later on, greeting cards that were ..read more

© Leila Nabih Feb. 23, 2024 vol. 8 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Leila Nabih. Middle Grade Giveaway We are pleased to host a giveaway of the middle grade novel, Lost Kites and Other Treasures, by Cathy Carr (Amulet Books), out now. Enter to win a copy via the Rafflecopter below! art by Maeve Norton, cover design by De ..read more

© Tamara Piper   Feb. 16, 2024 vol. 7 The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations and camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Tamara Piper. Picture Book Giveaway We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book, What's New, Daniel? written and illustrated by Micha Archer (Penguin Young Readers Group) out on Feb. 20. Enter to win a copy via the Rafflecopter below ..read more