Sonya Justice

#wip #wipart #illustrators #kidlit

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, #ISeeColor!

See color! Celebrate diversity.

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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

I’m Neha, an author-illustrator from India. Interested in PB, book covers and chapter books.

Rep’d by Lori Steel at @steelworksliterary.bsky.social

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Little girl with a yellow hoodie carries a box. Her hoodie has a red cat face and paw. She's wearing blue boots. The setting is a forest with vines all over. Little Girl is reaching for the vines. There's white animal far in the distance looking at her. This is a book cover mock up by Shirley V. Ting for her WIP project Graphic novel

Hello, #kidlitartpostcard I'm Shirley V. Ting 🎨 kids, animals and fun, seeking rep for PB, CB, spot BW and short GNs + covers. I work from traditional BW to digital. visit me> illustration.shirleyvting.com #bookcoverart of a #AAPI WIP CB/MG #GN. Going #amquerying soon.
#CanLit #kidlitart #CanArt

A garden in progress in my yard. Red, yellow, pink, apricot, and a red & yellow tulip on a blanket of brown mulch. Stones encircle the garden patch.

To appreciate diversity, you need a variety of whatever it is you’re talking about.

DEI #Tulips
#TulipTuesday 🌱
#Flowers #FlowerReport
#Bloomscrolling #gardens

Bluff Country, MN 📷
May 6, 2025

Art of an Asian mermaid sitting on a rock with an otter and smaller mermaid in the water in the foreground. Some tropical trees and islands are in the background.

Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 projects for PB, GN, board & chapter books🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Agent - Tracy Marchini @bookendsliterary.bsky.social

#kidlit #kidlitart #aapi #ahm2025

Book cover of “Pickle Words” by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Jialei Sun. Several kids and pickles decorate the cover.

Not since Peter Piper have we had such fun with pickles! Stuffed full of lovely colllage illustrations, there are twisty rhymes, lots of information, and a diverse mix of pickle. From dill to kimchi to chutney and chow, this is a pickle extravaganza for kids. Crunchy Storytime Fun! #kidlit 📚👍🏼

#amwriting #booksky #writingcommunity

I turned down an “illustration opportunity” because the author wanted me to do pretty complex double-page spread sketches for free. Easily 10 hours of work. Authors, I love you for creating stories, but please, don’t ask illustrators to work for free. Being an illustrator is not easy. #kidlitchat

Thanks for sharing the postcard, Susan!

Happy Women’s Day!

💗 #BRAVE #BABY #TURTLE!💗
🌟Gorgeous #watercolors~Kirkus
🌟Sweet~HuffP
🌟Captivates~NYT
🌟Onomatopoeia~PW
🌟Courageous~SFGate
🌟Tranquil~ALA
🌟Serenades~NatGeo
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Happy #BookBirthday to Hocus and Pocus and the Dragon Next Door (book 2)

Magical puppies Hocus and Pocus have a new neighbor: Bye-Bye the dragon! Will they all be friends?

Available now in paperback & hardcover! #kidlit #candlewick #arcapetta!

"Writing is a way to understand the world." – Mario Vargas Llosa
What did he mean by this? Let's dive into it. 🧵👇
#Llosa

Good morning from Australia.

#WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #ReadingCommunity #indieauthors #Wenesday

This isn't wrong. 💙📚

#booksky
#writing
#books
#writingcommunity

Please join me on March 22 at Maxima Book Center in Lexington, Mass, for a fun construction-themed story time with my picture book Pigs Dig a Road. If your kiddo loves trucks, construction sites and/or pigs, this is the event for you! 🐷 🚧

Kung Fur action of a little girl with the sign of the Snake and a Snake at the back.

Hello, #kidlitartpostcard it's one week in from the Year of the Snake. I'm Shirley V. Ting, I illustrate kids, animals and fun, seeking rep for PB, CB, spot BW and short GNs + covers. Writing wip MG graphic novel. I work from traditional BW to digital. visit me> illustration.shirleyvting.com

A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree by Daniel Bernstrom: 9781662640087 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Boisterous and buzzing, A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree is destined to be an instant classic . . . with delightfully funny illustrations and clever, fun-to-read text, from the acclaimed author of One ...

Happy Black History Month!

Today’s children’s book by a black author is A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree by Daniel Bernstrom.

A story told with minimalist language but amazingly lush, colorful pictures. It’s a hit a story time!

#BlackHistoryMonth
#blackauthors
#childrensbooks
#booksky

Promo for children's books launching the week of Feb.24-Mar.2nd, 2025, with instructions to reply with book info. Background illustration shows books joyously exploding into the air, with a blue heart in the corner with the week dates. Art is by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.

If you have a #KidLit book launching Feb.24-Mar.2nd, reply with book cover (use alt text), title, author & illustrator, publisher, launch date, link where people can find info. Read Guidelines BEFORE replying, thx Pls help boost? Challenging time to be launching books. #KidLitLaunches #Edusky

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Oh my gosh, we have a really great picture book bio about Ann Lowe and my students always ask to look at pictures of her gorgeous creations, which is so much fun! 😻

Photograph of a picture book: Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei, A Life in the Mountains. Words by Anita Yasuda, art by Yuko Shimizu. Illustration (with inked lines and soft but deep color) depicts a snowy, cloudy, mountainous landscape viewed from above, with focus at the bottom of the frame on a climber approaching a summit. She is an adult Japanese woman with dark glasses and hair, a bold orange parka with a hood, blue scarf and gloves, and a brown stocking cap. She has a red climber's pack on her back, with a Japanese flag jutting out of it, and red mittens hanging around her neck. She is smiling triumphantly, strapped to a climbing clip, hands and on knee flat in the snow.

Another terrific #CopyrightPageArtNotes entry in two parts! Loving all this detail:

"The artist used a Japanese calligraphy brush that was specifically made for Buddhist sutra and black India ink to make drawings on watercolor paper..."

(1/2)

Cover of Space Chasers graphic novel by Leland Melvin

In graphic novel SPACE CHASERS by Leland Melvin, an elite group of teens is selected to train for a NASA mission to space. A mishap on launch day sends them to space w/o adults. They’ll need to band together & use skills from their training & beyond to survive & safely return to Earth. 1/2 #mglit 📚👍🏻

This or That? First Draft - picture of a blank computer screen Revision - picture of computer screen with text and pages and pens next to it. 12x12challenge.com/membership

Are you Team First Draft or Team Revision when writing #picturebooks? Luckily, in #12x12PB we have badges for both, plus tons of accountability & support. Check-ins, feedback, craft webinars - it's all yours if you join at 12x12challenge.com/m... #kidlit #kidlitart #amwriting

🌟The first review of I’M LIKE A TREE AND A TREE’S LIKE ME is in… and it’s a STAR from Kirkus! 🌟

Coming April 15 from #EnchantedLion 👇
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#kidlit #picturebooks

A #snowy #story, filled with #magic and #kindness

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#Parenting #literacy #readingisfundamental #literacymatters #booksky #childrensbooks #writingcommunity #Sundayfunday

A picture book illustration of a Palestinian folktale about a girl and her father.

WIP.

Very rough pencil sketch of three kids and a dog in a backyard gardening. One is holding a running hose and the dog has the end of the hose, spraying water. Another is holding a chicken on their head. The third is watering plants with a can.

Very rough pencil sketch of three kids and a dog in a backyard gardening, slight changes from the first. The kid holding a chicken has the chicken on their lap. There are sunflowers in the garden beds.

A more refined pencil drawing from the original sketch.

The final watercolour painting of the same backyard gardening scene.

Who else likes to see illustration processes from rough sketch to final painting?? I wish more artists would show these.

Here is my process for the first spread from As Bright as a Rainbow (written by Romy Ash).

🌈📚 #kidlit #kidlitart

Blue book surrounded by the words Librarians Are Freedom Fighters

Doing research today for a new secret #mg book and discovered that the Grimm brothers were librarians! Now I appreciate them even more.