About Us

Welcome to Kidlit411, your one stop info shop for children's writers and illustrators.

Our goal is to organize relevant information about writing and illustrating for children in one handy spot, right here. Our site includes:

  • Topical Pages - links to articles and resources organized by topics 
  • The Weekly 411 - each week, we compile the new links that were added during the week in an update post. You can receive this by email by subscribing to email updates (in the left hand sidebar)

So spend some time with us! Browse, click, connect and welcome to the world of kid lit writers and illustrators!


About Us



KIDLIT411 founder, Elaine Kiely Kearns is a picture book author and also writes middle grade. Armed with a master's degree in Education and working from her home office, she spends her time perusing the internet for golden nuggets of information about children's writing and creating her own stories. She is the author of the picture book, Noah Noasaurus, illustrated by Colin Jack (Albert Whitman 2019). She is represented by Gaby Cabezut at The Seymour Agency.

Sylvia Liu is the other half of Kidlit411. She writes middle grade (Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation, Razorbill 2022;  Near & Deer, Scholastic 2024, Manatee's Best Friend, Scholastic 2021) and picture books (A Morning with Grandpa, illustrated by Christina Forshay Lee & Low Books New Voices Award Winner, 2016). She is represented by Jennifer March Soloway of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.


About our Website Banner


Each month, we change our banner to feature a different illustrator's work. Our December 2024 banner was designed by Farnaz Nadim.

© Farnaz Nadim

 

Contribute

We welcome links for the site and illustrations for the front page. Please send links or low res JPGs of your work and your website to kidlit411@kidlit411.com.

Connect 

Sign up for email updates, and we will send you a weekly post with all the new links added over the past week (The Weekly 411).

Join our Facebook group for information and camaraderie.

Join our Facebook manuscript swap or our Facebook portfolio   swap to find critique partners.


Terms & Conditions of Giveaways


 We run frequent book giveaways in our Author & Illustrator Spotlights. Winners are selected randomly via Rafflecopter.com and notified by email. Kidlit411 will not share or sell any information you provide in entering our giveaways and will use any information only for the purpose of contacting the winner or verifying entries. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. Open to U.S. residents only, ages 18+. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.  

Donate


 We run this site on a shoestring, but even shoestrings cost money. If you have found this site helpful and would like to contribute, we would be very grateful.