Maria Mola

Who knew AI and Fairies had something in common?
Their jealousy of human love.
They would do anything for a day in love, thorns and all.
That precious, mortal superpower.

Happy Valentine's Day!🍫 💝

#ValentinesDay #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #painting

Julian the Postman would delight in the thought that he was hacking the Matrix every Valentine's Day. Among the usual bills, eviction notices, and other grey deliveries, he would freely give away colorful hearts of all shapes and sizes 💌
Julian, the Loveliest Hacker
#ValentinesDay #kidlit #kidlitart

Music proves to be a magical tool to plant seeds of hope until the world is ready to see the beauty of the diversity of our shared garden. 🌻🌹🌼🌷🪻

"The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love"
Bad Bunny
#kidlit #kidlitart #badbunny #childrensillustration #childrensbooks #superbowl

Se canta en español!! Let's sing with Bad Bunny!
Go Pats! 🐰👯 💃🕺

#badbunny #gopats #kidlit #kidlitart #superbowl

Warms our hearts to celebrate the 3rd #bookbirthday of @nrpaulson.bsky.social and @mariamola.bsky.social's #picturebook NILA'S PERFECT COAT. Today, be like Nila and #sharewarmth by donating coats, hats, and gloves. #kidlit #kidlitart #onewarmcoat @kidlitcollective.bsky.social

Thank you! 🌼

February #kidlitartpostcard ❤️

Brr... it's a frozen world outside.
Inside, choose love, today...and every day.
Put it on and wear it until winter melts.

I am open to commissions that keep us all warm 🧣❤️
#valentinesday #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookmaker #picturebooks #childrensbooks

Second snow day! ❄️ ❄️
Watching children and animals playing in the snow is one the most purifying scenes to witness lately...

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #childrenillustration #snowday

A five-year-old is not a threat,
never was,
never will be.

#humanrights #childrenrights #kidlit #kidlitart #editorialillustration

Happy #MLKDay ! 🕊️

When the future looks bleak, go back to the fundamental pillars of humanity...

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

#kidlit #kidlitart #editorialillustration #editorial #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLK

- Pio, pio

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #picturebooks #boardbooks

Hola #portfolioday! ☀️

I am a children's book illustrator based in Boston. I love whimsical stories that gently hold little hands, helping their minds grow.

💌 Open to collaborations on picture books and boardbooks. 🌻

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #picturebooks #picturebookmaker

Happy January #kidlitartpostcard!

On that rare sunny morning, the elephant in the room
felt compelled to become the elephant in the sun
I am Maria, an artist drawn to sunflower characters, inevitably turning toward the sunny side of life
💌 Open to ☀️ commissions🌻
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks

The most mythical fairytale is that one about moms being behind all the Christmas magic. Can you believe it?!
Happy Women's Christmas... even if it's totally based on a legend 🪄
#littlechristmas #NollaignamBan #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #fairytales

The most magical night! The Three Kings on their way...

"Normalize magic" she caught herself whispering, almost like...
an epiphany. ✨ 🪄 👑 👑 👑

#thethhreekings #diadereyes #reismags #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #picturebooks #Epiphany

Press...Peace 🕊️
Happy New Year!✨

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #childrensillustration #picturebooks #peace #newyear #happynewyear

Gently tiptoeing out of 2025...
Happy 2026.
Red. Put on something red. What’s the best that could happen?
Have faith, or hope.
Or both! ✨ ❤️ 🤞🏻
#kidlit #kidlitart #graphicnovel #editorialillustration #NewYearEve #newyear

Thank you to all the stories that now, at the end of 2025, remind us that we can still do good, that staying human is still possible, even against all odds.

Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays!🕊️ ❤️ ✨

#kidlit #kidlitart #Christmas2025 #christmas #childrensbooks #childrensillustration #peace #hope

Christmas Eve!
So you got the flu too and now you are working all the shifts...
Of all the hats, the one in the North Pole has to be my favorite one...
And it’s starting to snow to make it impossibly perfectly whitechristmassy❄️🎄

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #Christmas #childrensillustration

Christmas eve EVE! Two more 🍫🍫

#kidlit #kidlitart #chidrensillustration #childrensbooks #christmas #picturebooks #christmasillustration

The coziest deerest playdates 🍫 ☕️ 🍪 🎄 🦌

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #picturebooks #picturebookart #christmas #christmasillustration #picturebookmaker

Happy Winter Solstice!

Little hopeful footsteps towards the light and away from the 2025 darkness...
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #picturebooks #illustration #childrensillustration #christmas #picturebookart #solstice

(Sweet) Christmas countdown: 5 chocolates left!🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫

#kidlit #kidlitart #christmas #christmascard #booklover #christmasillustration #childrensillustration #childrensbooks #newyork #nyc

Yesterday I got to see #PattiSmith on her book tour...
To Pattismith: should be a verb, unique and necessary 🕊️

"I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule"
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration

#artvsartist2025
I would like to say I am still standing, but no, I'm still sitting...🙃
2025...twenty-fiving until its very last days...😔
A rather rough year, vacuuming whatever crumbs of sunshine for the grey days ahead
Have you been sitting too?
#kidlit #kidlitart #artvsartist #illustration

Happy Birthday to our Chim-chim-CHERI, 100 BALLOONS 🎈🎈!

"Love? What is love? It's certainly the feeling of caring about the welfare and the life of the other person as much as you care for yourself."
Dick Van Dyke

#dickvandyke #editorial #editorialillustration #portrait #kidlit #kidlitart #fanart

Happy Santa Lucia! Bearer of light and hope to those in the dark...✨

#santalucia #saintlucy #santallucia #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #picturebook #childrensillustration #Fairytales

Something I made for my daughter's birthday - belated, but here it is 🎈🎈
She's always loved cats, so Santa...
Eight years, the currency of childhood spending away... so fast!

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #portrait #portraitpainting #catlover

"Women's testimony is the act of seeing what is outside from within. If there is one feature that can distinguish women's discourse, it is that framing."
Carmen Martín Gaite

#painting #portrait #sketches
#bookcover #carmenmartingaite #literature #editorial #editorialillustration

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!

Join them on a joyful ride to Holidays Village! Ready, set, go!!
I am Maria Mola, an artist ridden by nostalgia... dreaming to create the coziest, winterland board books.

Open to commissions starting in 2026. Happy Holidays! ✨
#kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks