Happy Saturday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! Are you ready, kidlit fam? Exactly six days from today, our annual #PBCritiqueFest will kick off for the fourth time! This massive one-time critique giveaway will give 32 kidlit creators an opportunity to have their work critiqued by published authors, illustrators, and literary agents. In this post, I hope to provide more information about how everything works as well as announce our festival participants. If after readin

Happy Sunday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! It's that time again... Exactly one week from today, our annual #PBCritiqueFest will kick off for the third time! This massive one-time critique giveaway will give 31 kidlit creators an opportunity to have their work critiqued by published authors, illustrators, and literary agents. In this post, I hope to provide more information about how everything works as well as announce our festival participants. If after reading this

Welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! Ahhhhh...the end of July. Harry Potter's birthday. The death of summer fast approaching in the northern hemisphere. And back to school commercials and store displays in full swing, subsequently triggering all teachers... This of course includes myself. Sweet freedom is but a few weeks from ending. But if I'm totally honest, I get a little excited when August rolls around because I actually love teaching. Each new school year is a chance to