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Mirelle Ortega

@msmirelle.bsky.social

🇲🇽 award-winning artist and writer for kidlit and animation. Author/illustrator of MAGIC and RIVER OF MARIPOSAS. Website: https://www.mirelleortega.com/ Instagram: @msmirelle Newsletter: https://mirelleortega.substack.com/

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Thank you 🩷

03.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My Day of the Dead Altar this year.

My grandparents died when I was - teenager and lived in Mexico. So much has happened since! In my altar, I like leaving snacks and candy of things that I’ve tasted since that I would have liked them to try (because I know they would have loved) 🤍

03.11.2025 00:09 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you ❤️

02.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feliz Día de Muertos 🖤

A spread from my book “Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land”

02.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Dodgers back to back!!!!!!! 😭✨

02.11.2025 04:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a World series !!!!!!!

02.11.2025 04:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feliz Día de Muertos to everyone who celebrates today and tomorrow.

I hope your altars are set and that you may feel the love of your dearly departed today and always 🖤

01.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Halloween 👻

31.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s publishing Day for PEPE AND THE PIÑATA 🪅✨

You can get the book here: littlebeebooks.com/books/pepe-a...

Disponible también en español 🤗

28.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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“I am Halloween - spooky, creepy, hocus-pocus. Y soy el día de los Muertos - ofrendas, catrinas y papel picado.”

One of my favorite spreads I got to illustrate for “I Am, Yo Soy”. A very special dua-lingual book about growing up a part of two different cultures.

20.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This is the time of year when I take naps to the “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” soundtrack.

15.10.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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California fall 🍁

15.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I wrote about the end of summer and endpapers for newsletter.doc 💛

You can check it out here (it’s free):
mirelleortega.substack.com/p/the-endpap...

28.09.2025 21:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Some cute pictures from the Draw Off at the LA Libros Festival last weekend!!

21.09.2025 05:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Angela! ☺️ I figured they would be new to some people!

18.09.2025 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Mexican Independence Day! And Happy Hispanic Heritage month!

I didn’t have time to do a drawing this year, so I’m reposting some of my favorites I’ve drawn through the years.

17.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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I AM, YO SOY by Gabriela Orozco Belt, illus. by @msmirelle.bsky.social is a lyrical, dual-lingual picture book about the beauty of being part of two cultures! This is a wonderful read-aloud book—and a great one to share this upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month 🌟

03.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats 🎉✨

07.08.2025 02:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Today on National Parents Day, we highlight MAMIACHI & ME written by mom and son duo, @writerjolene.bsky.social/Dakota Gutiérrez illustrated by @msmirelle.bsky.social plus THE YOWLERS by Stacy Lynn Carroll illustrated by @mollyruttan.bsky.social. #kidlit #kidlitart

27.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

It’s like a little bit gloomy outside and all I want to do is light a candle, decorate for Halloween and read a book about Vampires.

22.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me 🤝 Brazilian food at the mall

16.07.2025 16:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Jarocha no. 1

Gouache, color pencil and posca marker on mixed media paper.

A little Jarocha from a series I’m painting!

12.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I learned to play chess a couple weeks ago… apparently just in time for this 3 hour video about chess I just found on YouTube!!

08.07.2025 19:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can get 25% off if you pre-order PEPE AND THE PIÑATA today! ✨

shorturl.at/2fySW

08.07.2025 19:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I loved these two pieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

03.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi friends! I’ll be at the ALA convention this weekend. I’ll be doing two book signings, come say hi ☺️

23.06.2025 22:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy World Day of Music! 🎶 🎵

We love SOMETHING WILD by @mollyruttan.bsky.social and MAMIACHI AND ME by @writerjolene.bsky.social and Dakota Gutierrez with art by @msmirelle.bsky.social!

These sweet books are music to our eyes and ears!
❤️📚🎻 🎸
#kidlit #picturebooks #music

21.06.2025 21:55 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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So much gratitude to Andrea Y. Wang for hosting me on the Picture Book Builders site for an interview about MAMIACHI & ME: MY MAMI'S MARIACHI BAND by Dakota Gutierrez, @msmirelle.bsky.social, and me today! There is a #giveaway!

picturebookbuilders.com/2025/06/mami...

#kidlit #picturebooks #teacher

18.06.2025 03:46 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Get ready for the holidays with PEPE & THE PIÑATA! Available for pre-order now! @msmirelle.bsky.social

17.06.2025 09:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Just finished painting the cutest rocks no one will ever notice in a book spread 🥲

22.05.2025 21:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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