Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!

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picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️‍🌈 PBParty2025 Finalist! www.caitdarfler.com Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 4d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Time to Leave Laverne! Lana Button & Yong Ling Kang SEL. Transitions. Stuffies help with big feelings. Relates feelings to storms. I loved this book and its sweet, struggling character!

Cover for "Time to Leave, Laverne!" with the title in a large speech bubble from above. The top of an illustrated angry young kid's face pokes out from the bottom of the book with dark thundercloud background.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 7d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Wildspeak Sangma Francis & Lexi Vangsnes Lovely nature book. With made-up words for natural phenomena plus introductions to landform words.

Cover for WILDSPEAK showing a kid in a tan explorer hat peeking through tall grass with a bird, bees, butterflies and stylized flowers.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 9d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Tears Sibylle Delacroix Lovely story that normalizes tears. Why we cry. Compassionate look at tears. Engaging illustrations.

Cover for TEARS with a pencil sketch of a wide-eyed child shedding two blue teardrops.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 11d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks My Pollinator Garden Jordan Zwetchkenbaum & Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Perfect summer read. About bees/pollinators and the specific plants they need.

Children's book cover for "My Pollinator Garden" showing a joyful child with glasses and a crown of flowers reaching amid bees, butterflies, a hummingbird and colorful blooms.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 14d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Only Ants for Andy Jashar Awan @jashar.bsky.social Where are my picky eaters? This book is fantastic for those with a fear of trying new foods. I love that the MC is an anteater!

Book cover for Only Ants for Andy, teal background with a pink anteater tongue looping around the title. A singular ant sits on the tip of the long tongue, while an anteater in a striped shirt holds a fork over a plate piled with ants.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 14d

Shenanigans.🥰 #streetart #fillingincracks

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 16d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A friend is a friend is a friend Sara O'Leary & Qin Leng This series is very good. This one was the 7-year-old's favorite.

Cover for "A friend is a friend is a friend" showing a slew of children laughing and climbing a large tree.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 18d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks If You Find a Leaf Aimee Sicuro Beautiful. Slightly rhyming. Lyrical. Fun, real leaves within the art. We loved picking out leaves we knew and thinking creatively about how natural items can be used in art.

Children's book cover for If You Find a Leaf. Showing a small child and dog sailing in a boat while a large red leaf serves as their sail, on blue waves beneath a soft pastel sky.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 21d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Pocket Full of Rocks Kristin Mahoney & E.B. Goodale @kmcmahoney.bsky.social @ebgoodale.bsky.social A circular story of collecting. Rocks, petals, shells, and acorns. Through the seasons. Lovely and lyrical. I adored this.

Cover for A Pocket Full of Rocks. Shows a smiling child in a yellow-and-white striped shirt cradling a handful of speckled rocks against a colorful floral background.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 23d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Tree is a Community David L. Harrison & Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Lyrical and lovely. All the life supported by a tree. Amazing!

Cover for A Tree Is A Community. Showing a large tree filled with birds and a raccoon, two children swinging from a branch beneath a bright sun.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 23d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks It finally came! Thanks to my Indie Bookstore @buffalostreetbooks.bsky.social I've been waiting months to get my own copy of ENOUGH TO SHARE by Mary Helen Berg and Sue Todd. @maryhelenberg.bsky.social @suetodd.bsky.social

Cait smiling, with short gray hair and purple glasses, holding the children's book "Enough to Share" outside.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 25d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Peddler of Puddles Beth Ferry & Tom Lichtenheld Oh so sweet. Lovely rhythm to the story. Adorable illustrations. Great summer read.

Cover for "The Peddler of Puddles" showing a turtle in a straw hat and red boots pushing a whimsical rain-making cart that pours water from a cloud, with small birds and puddles along the ground.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· 28d

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Speck: An Itty-Bitty Epic Margaux Meganck Lyrical. Informational fiction. Barnacle spore finding a home floating through the ocean. Very sweet and touching.

Cover for "Speck: An Itty‑Bitty Epic" showing a small glowing speck above a dense school of colorful fish on a dark blue background.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 15

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Just Flowers Erin Dealey & Kate Cosgrove @erindealey.bsky.social @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Love a good grouchy neighbor antagonist. I liked the plant names woven in. My budding green witch loved this.

Cover for Just Flowers. Showing a brown-skinned child resting on a treehouse balcony surrounded by colorful flowers and fluttering red butterflies.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 13

So excited for my talented, beautiful CP! Go Pamela! @pamelamorganwrites.bsky.social I have this note. Which is true every time. Her writing doesn't suck 😉 and she makes it amazing each time!

Pink sticky note with "tell Pamela this doesn't suck" handwritten on it.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 13

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Honeybee Highway Shanna Upchruch & Dagmar Smith @dagmarsmith.bsky.social Great illustrations. Informative and yet engaging story about transporting bees across the county to pollinate crops. Go Disney Planet Possible Books!

Cover for The Honeybee Highway. Showing a white girl running through tall grass, bees buzzing nearby, with scattered around. Also shows a pickup truck on a country road and blossom-covered branches framing the title.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 10

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Swashby and the Sea Beth Ferry & Juana Martinez-Neal @juanamartinezn.bsky.social Very sweet. Grumpy old man and a fiddling sea befriend a little girl. Loved it.

Cover for Swashby and the Sea. Showing a small rowboat on a sandy shore with a grizzled old white man in a knit cap and a smiling black girl with large glasses beside him.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 8

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Walk the Walk R.J. Owens & Reggie Brown @reggiebrownart.bsky.social Well done informational fiction about the Montgomery Bus boycott. Sparked great conversation.

Cover for Walk the Walk. Showing a Black man and boy walking on a sidewalk past a green-and-yellow 'Cleveland Ave' bus.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 6

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Monster Mender Christine Baldacchino @christinebaldacchino.link The healing power of friendship. Allowed us to talk about depression. Beautiful and very sweet.

Cover for Monster Mender. Shows a stylized dragon curling into a large letter M while a small grey haired person touches the dragon's nose.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 4

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Volcanoes Nell Cross Beckerman & Kalen Chock @nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social @k04sk.bsky.social Gorgeous! Amazing, lyrical, nature-focused. I have the same pic of baby-faced Cait pulling lava in Hawaii too!

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jul 2

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Gitty and Kvetch Caroline Kusin Pritchard & Ariel Landy Caroline Kusin Pritchard YIDDISH words in a picture book! What fun. Cute dynamic duo and inviting, colorful illustrations.

Cover for Gitty and Kvetch. Shows excited girl and grumpy bird.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 30

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks I'm a Great Friend Lauren Stohler Lauren Stohler My family is Capy obsessed. Cute story about accepting yourself and finding friendsthip.

Cover for I'm a Great Friend. Shows a cartoon capybara in goggles racing foward surrounded by birds quickly flying out of the way.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 28

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Day with No Words Tiffany Hammond & Kate Cosgrove Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond Kate Cosgrove Lovely. Great conversation starter.

Cover for A Day with No Words. Shows a black boy in glasses looking at flowers at a playground.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 26

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks A Door Is to Open Kyo Maclear & Julie Morstad kyo maclear Beautiful. Doors both real and metaphorical. Lovely illustrations. Imaginative.

Cover for A Door Is to Open. Shows a small kid peering out through a wide gaping door

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 24

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks You can sit with Me Rachel Tawil Kenyon & Tatiana Kamshilina A lovely, kindness-filled poem, wrapped into a picture book.

Cover for You can sit with Me. Shows a bunch of kids sitting at a lunch table.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 22

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Mungo On His Own Matthew Burgess & Julie Benbassat Matthew Burgess Julie Benbassat Sweet adventure of a little fox finding berries. It's a big, scary world, but memories of Mom guide him toward bravery. So cute.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 20

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Plenty of Pancakes Carrie Finison & Brianne Farley Carrie Finison Very cute. Broke the expected rhythm with the pancake thieves munching. My 1st grader loved it. A great read-aloud.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 18

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Bud Finds Her Gift Robin Wall Kimmerer & Naoko Stoop I haven't read Braiding Sweetgrass yet (on my TBR list), but I enjoyed the simple Earth connections in this story. Great illustrations too.

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 16

#uplift Photo from a friend this morning. She gave the driver a double thumbs up. Made me smile.

Toy dump truck strapped down to a long empty tractor trailor

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION!@caitdarfler· Jun 16

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Creature of Habit Jennifer E. Smith & Leo Espinosa Leo Espinosa Wonderful example of making a topic imaginative and fun for kids and not at all didactic. Pulling this story into an imaginative space -- *chef kiss*!