An interview at @picturebookseh.bsky.social about my new book, Do You Know the Dark?

Happy Book Birthday to DO YOU KNOW THE DARK? by @rozdraws.bsky.social! In accessible, lyrical text, this picture book offers new ways to think about the unknowns of darkness, appreciating its gifts of rest, regeneration, and possibility. It has a star from Kirkus 🌟 tinyurl.com/k4hyes

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Attention #kidlit lovers! Amazing Canadian creators are offering picture books and pb critiques in this giveaway with @picturebookseh.bsky.social 💫. Im offering a pb critique 📚

So excited for release in May 🌛

My heart is with Tumbler Ridge, sending love to the families and community left behind in the wake of a tragic loss 🖤

Are you a #BattlestarGalactica Fan? We have #BSG production art - signed by the artist and a cast member - available in our silent auction! It’s a fundraiser for the Meera Centre - a child development centre in Cairo, Egypt for displaced Gazan children 🕊️ app.galabid.com/art-is-love-...

Offering a custom painted pet portrait to raise funds for the Meera Centre, a child centre in Cairo, Egypt for displaced Gazan children. Auction is live until Dec 22! 🍉🍉🍉🕊️ app.galabid.com/art-is-love-... #freePalestine #PetPortrait #dogs #cats

I created this poster for an event raising funds for the Meera Centre in Cairo, Egypt, a child development centre that serves children and families who have fled Gaza. I was inspired by the art the kids made in their art therapy to process their trauma and loss. Many of the drawings are theirs.

#ComoxValley + #VancouverIsland Artists! I’m helping organize a fundraiser for the Meera Centre, a child development centre in Cairo, Egypt that supports child & family refugees fleeing violence in Gaza. To donate email [email protected] or fill out this form form.jotform.com/253175558566....

Reflecting and thankful after a busy week in Vancouver with the @writersfest.bc.ca / Vancouver Writers Fest, author visits and stopping in to share books with CWILL at the BC Teacher Librarians Conference! Aaand in the spirit of library joy I got to meet @mychal3ts.bsky.social ! 🌈📚

This was such a great conversation!

Roz MacLean’s @rozdraws.bsky.social Together, a Forest (Henry Holt) shares a journey into the forest, and a meditation on how our unique personalities and ways of being help create a more vibrant and beautiful world.

Does anyone know of an online guide (hoping for a zine) about creating accessible spaces? Thinking about the basics to share with a group who are new to thinking about this. #disability #accessibility

Happy earth day!

Just in time for Earth day Kirkus reviewed TOGETHER, A FOREST and said some nice things ☺️! 🌲🍄🌱 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #Kidlit #readCanadian #booksky

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👀 If you see this, QRP with your animal #art! #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #illustration #animalart #illustrator

It’s the last day of neurodiversity celebration week! Neurodiversity is natural and beautiful ✨🌱🍄 An illustration from Together, a Forest, where Diwa is joyfully stimming with fluttering ferns 🌿 #kidlit #kidcanlit #illustration #neurodiversity #neurodiversityCelebrationWeek

Happy International Day of Forests! Ever feel like dreaming in a bed of moss? This is Ben, from Together, a Forest - his brain holds onto dinosaur facts just like Moss holds onto moisture 💧🦖! I hope you get to touch some soft moss sometime soon 🌳🌱 #kidlit #InternationalDayOfForests

Is there anything sweeter than a friend texting you a photo of your book that they preordered? Grateful for friends like these 💓🥰 #kidlit #readCanadian #kidcanlit

Canadians who make art for kids 👀🍁

If you see this post a #dragon 🐲 #kidlit #kidlitart

New blog! "Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own" by Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social "...each child finds an experience of connection with the natural world that mirrors something about how they experience the world." Read it here: picturebookseh.weebly.com/blog/drawing...

I wrote about the inspiration and process behind my new book, Together, a Forest 🌲🌱

Happy book birthday Together, a Forest! I am SO thrilled and thankful to be sharing a picture book that celebrates diversity and interconnection when I believe we need these themes more than ever. Available wherever books are sold, useful 🔗 in bio #kidlit #readCanadian @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Endpapers! For my upcoming book, I got reallllly into these endpapers. I was going for science-y, informative and fun. I learned some scientific names! What are your thoughts? Do you notice endpapers? #kidlit #canlit #kidlitMegaThread #kidlitart #booksky #artsky #kidlitbooklaunch

I hope everyone had a happy love day 💕💕 This is Joy, from my upcoming book Together, a Forest, feeling the love of being rooted in community #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #illustration #art

Look what arrived! It’s so special to hold something you’ve worked for so long to make 🥹. Coming out in a month 👀! 🔗 in bio to preorder #picturebook #kidlit #art #childrensbooks

Obsessed with mycelium as metaphor 🍄🍄‍🟫. In my upcoming book, Together, a Forest, Nisha contemplates how fungi create a thread like network of care with other plants in the forest. She cares about her community too ✨ Available for preorder 👇🏻 rozmaclean.com/blog/ #artsky #kidlit #fungi #mushrooms

1. Some details from my upcoming book Together, a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own, including some end papers that I got very carried away with. Coming out March 4 with Henry Holt Books For Young Readers! #kidlit #Disability #neurodiversity

I designed some utility boxes for the city of Nanaimo! This was a cool challenge for me, as illustration is much more my comfort zone than design. I was thinking about local aquatic life that is important but easily overlooked 🐟🪸 #art #design #illustration #marinelife

Happy #PortfolioDay! I’m a Canadian author illustrator working in acrylic and regular gouache, pencil crayon, ink and a touch of digital. I love vivid colours, texture and movement 🎨✨

The more AI art I see, the more I enjoy seeing brushstrokes and sketchy marks. Anyone else? This piece makes me think of taking a moment to listen inward. #art #illustration #kidlitart #painting #kidlit

Hello! I’m a children’s book author illustrator. Instagram: @roz_maclean Rozmaclean.com Repped by Naomi Davis at Bookends Literary More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean (2023) Together, a Forest (coming this March!) All with Henry Holt Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Kids

Happy January from me and this boundy wolf ❄️🩵❄️ #art #illustration #childrensillustration #kidlitart

Yellow in here 🌞 #kidlit #kidlitart