Veronica Mang

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Hi #PortfolioDay ✍️ I'm Veronica Mang, a kids book writer and illustrator! Sharing snippets from my next book, Copland: A Story About America, out in February ❤️ Would love to tackle another book in collage! more at veronicamang.com ❤️

Found drawing from August (summer, I miss you!)

First review is in for COPLAND and it is a ⭐️ !
Thank you Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Birthday card for my love <3

Found sketch, a tiny Piccolo in pink 💗

Emerging from a deadline with snippets to share ❤️ From my picture book biography of Aaron Copland, out next spring. More to share soon 💐

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

(Important)

Winter girl no. 2 #sketchbook

Winter girl no. 1 #sketchbook

Who did you survey, lol

Bringing it to 🦋 by request:

People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

Please be real for a second guys

Beep beep 🚗💨

Just a reminder for no particular reason at all

Study from my current work in progress ✂️✨ #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbooks

A playful cartoon drawing of a mouse who is ice skating and holding a giant pretzel. The mouse is overjoyed! It is snowing all around him as he skates. His tail is flowing in the wind.

Happy December 1st ❤️❄️🥨 Look, it’s me! #kidlitart

Working like this is slow, sure! But my busy-body-ass cannot stare at a computer for months and that, above all else, is why I do not work digitally, lol. (That, and the quirks that come from working by hand! Look at that leaf! *mwah*)

It’s hard to figure out what materials to use for a project. What I’ve been asking myself (and what I advise students to consider) is: “can I sit and make work like this for months on end?”

A seasonally appropriate work in progress 🍂 #kidlit #kidlitart #wip

🔍 #kidlitart

On the desk today ✨ #kidlit #kidlitart

Wishing I could just *poof* recreate my pre-Elon twitter feed here, RIP

(do we do hashtags here??? #kidlitart ?? hi!)

Chugging along ✏️ loving this page ✏️

Big leap, too big for the cutting mat ❤️ #kidlit #kidlitart

Hi #kidlitartpostcard ❤️ I'm an author & illustrator of kids books based in Jersey City, NJ. Here's a study for my current book-in-progress (while I'm getting in the flow of my deadline!)
Repped by Andrea Morrison @ Writer's House
More at veronicamang.com ❤️

I’m so thrilled to finally share what I’ve been squirreled away working on ❤️ Thank you to my agent Andrea Morrison, my editor Tamar Brazis, and the entire Viking team who saw the very early seed of this idea and encouraged me to grow it. See ya in 2026 ❤️