Kids Comics Pitchfest 2025 Showcase
Comics creators from around the world submit their unpublished projects to be previewed online by editors and agents. A panel of judges (click here to see the juror list) select the top pitches. Projects are archived here so that industry pros may view them and discover new talent.
Save Me Chickies!
Save Me Chickies!, is a whirlwind tale of an Irish donkey, Sassy, desperate to save her half-drowned chicks. When Sassy discovers her beloved baby chicks drenched in an icy-cold water dish, she tries to revive them by putting them inside her warm oven! After an unexpected visitor distracts Donkey from her oven cargo for too long, she finally saves them only to discover that her chilly chicks are now a little too toasty! When Kitty steals the steamy chicks and runs away, Donkey attempts to save her baby chicks again, just as she had from the water dish … and then the oven … and now from her own Kitty! I am the author-illustrator of Save Me Chickies!, a character-driven stand-alone early reader graphic novel with series potential.
Age Range:
Early Reader (approx ages 5-7)Genre:
AnimalsPage Count Estimate:
32
My Why:
Save Me Chickies! is inspired by my Irish Great Aunt’s true account of placing a box of baby chicks in her warm turf oven to revive them after she had inadvertently left them out in the rain. Some nuns from a nearby abbey unexpectedly came to call and my Great Aunt forgot about the chicks as she rushed to prepare a tea for her guests. She finally rescued the chicks from the oven and did find, just as Sassy found out in my story, that chicks can hop up and down and all around when they are in a box that’s too hot! This story has been percolating in my head for decades!
Maureen Houser
I am a VERY Irish, retired educator with degrees in Art Education and Child Development living in colorful Colorado. I am an active member of SCBWI, a Little Golden Book member of 12 X 12 Picture Book Challenge and now proudly a KCU Studio member. I would love to be represented as an author-illustrator as well as an author-only to my fiction and non-fiction early reader graphic novel, picture book and board book manuscripts.
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