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@iaminprint.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:59 AM

Are you looking for #picturebook advice? Enter #Agent121... Run you texts past one of these agents/editors.

13 Oct - Lil Chase
23 Oct - Lucy Brownridge
30 Oct - Gyamfia Osei
13 Nov - Alice Williams

www.iaminprint.co.uk #picturebookwriter #writingforchildren #kidlitwriter #picturebookwriting

@drdianeadventures.com Oct 5, 2026, 4:53 PM

@shadras.bsky.social's advice for storytellers: start with what matters: your memories, joy, questions, and truth.

🍎 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/EL7nIVHR6mk

#AdventuresInLearning #LearningThroughPlay #Storytelling #WritingForChildren #ShadraStrickland

@shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:19 PM

Thanks as always to @thetoypress.bsky.social for a new #wordoftheweek. Here’s my poem based on the prompt.

#poetrycommunity #writingforchildren #kidlit

The Barn Hand
(for Kara)
She had three socks and a star
The beautiful bay who nibbled
Baby carrots and lumps of sugar
From the palm of my hand
On muggy summer afternoons—
I could have stayed there forever
But there were stalls to muck
And fresh bedding to lay
Before the stable master returned
© Shaun Jex

@ianbrownlie.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:55 AM

Thanks @thetoypress.bsky.social

#WordOfTheWeek #Horse #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

Horse

He coughed and neighed and said ‘No, no,
I'm too small for this course!’
She replied, ‘Here, have a throat lozenge.
you're just a little hoarse.’

@thetoypress.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:54 AM

Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek!

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #PoetryCommunity

@ianbrownlie.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 9:48 AM

Not so Super for @thetoypress.bsky.social
#WordOfTheWeek #Super #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

Not so Super

Common Mario Brothers
Normal-star
Usual-duper
Moderate-car

So-so-califragilisticexpialidocious
Ordinary-fan
Standard, general, mid-bowl
Regular-man!

@shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:19 PM

There’s a new word of the week from @thetoypress.bsky.social . The word is “super” Here’s my poem!
#kidlit #poetry #writingforchildren

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

Sometimes
I like to imagine
I’m the Lingít Superman
Powered by fry bread
And fresh g̱áax'w

Just think!
If I could soar
Through the blue sky
Like the mighty Kal-El
I’d be a basketball star

Never afraid
To take my shot
As the clock ticks down
And the whole game
Is on the line

I’d never
Get picked last
Or sit on the bench
But I might end up with
My photo in the paper

Of course
I wouldn’t brag
When you’re a hero
You just let your work
Talk for you

© Shaun Jex

@thetoypress.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 7:30 AM

Here is your #wordoftheweek

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #poetrycommunity

@shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 9:05 PM

I LOVED this week’s #wordoftheweek from @thetoypress.bsky.social . Here’s my poem.

#writingforchildren #poetry #kidlit

The Fox

She looks like a bit of flame
Creeping her way through
The tall summer grasses
To the edge of the creek
Where she will gaze longingly
At the flock of water fowl
Dabbling on the far bank
Dreaming of a feast
So close, and yet, so far away

© Shaun Jex

@thetoypress.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 7:45 AM

Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek !

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #poetrycommunity #poetryforchildren

@ianbrownlie.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

This week I would like to present a representation of the inside of my brain in poem form.

#WordOfTheWeek #Muddle #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

Boat

I got into a muddle in the middle of a puddle
when the pedal of my model boat from Lidl most befuddled me
I waddled to the puddle where I meddled with the pedal
but though straddling the puddle for to fiddle with the model boat
I found it not a doddle of a riddle in the puddle
and no medal would I model just for twiddling the pedal
so I waddled from the muddle in the middle of the puddle
left my model boat from Lidl with its pedal and skedaddled

@thetoypress.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 5:56 AM

Here is your #wordoftheweek!

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #poetryforchildren #poetrycommunity

@ianbrownlie.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 10:08 AM

Absolutely over the moon (sorry) to have a poem in The School Magazine! Perfectly illustrated by Greg Holfeld too.
#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #KidLit #WritingForChildren #Poem #Aliens

A page from the September edition of The School Magazine, Australia. The illustration by Greg Holfeld shows a child in a spacesuit bouncing on a trampoline, while below a dog with many eyes looks on.

Aliens

Do you believe in aliens?
Archibald does not.
Though he dresses as a Space Ranger
from the distant planet Splot.

He bounces on his trampoline
and pretends he’s up in space,
darting through the starry sky
as the Vandrigogs give chase.

But Archie knows that’s make believe.
The Vandrigogs aren’t real.
There’s no such place as Extoo 5
and Squinks aren’t pink and teal.

He takes his Ranger helmet off
and climbs into bed at night.
He wiggles his antennae
and then shuts his twelve eyes tight!

@shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 8:06 PM

Thanks to @thetoypress.bsky.social for the new #wordoftheweek! I plucked my poem from my grandma’s garden in Lacey, Washington.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit #writingforchildren

Yard Work

Grandma is raking this morning
Rolling back the thick blanket
Of leaves fallen from the apple trees

Every so often, her work uncovers
A fat, black slug lazing cozily
Beneath a quilt of colorful debris

It stirs, as though we’ve disturbed
A long and restful nap, before
Stretching and slowly scooting away

© Shaun Jex

@thetoypress.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:29 PM

A bit late in the day, but here is your #wordoftheweek!

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #poetrycommunity #poetryforchildren