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

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

Bye bye #folktaleweek2025 What a journey it's been! Travel safely this holiday season. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🍂 #folktaleweek #fairytale #fairytaletuesday #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks

Cliff hanger... #kidlit #kidlitart #folktaleweek #fairytale #childrensbooks #graphicnovel

I' ve searched the deserts of the land of pain and I've found no answers but mirages of illusion. I've talked to the mountains of despair and their response was just the dull echo of my voice. Celtas Cortos #folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #portrait #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #fairytales

#Folktaleweek "We're living in a strange time We're working for a strange goal We're turning flesh and body Into soul " Strange Boat , The Waterboys #kidlit #kidlitart #fairytale #graphicnovel #childrensbooks #folktaleweek2025 #books #charms

#folktaleweek #rain “For sunny days, you need the rain" whispered her aboa while sewing a meiguiña de lana, as Maria Lourdes complained about the nagging rain... #Folktaleweek2025 #portrait #fairytale #fairytales #portrait #childrensbooks #picturebooks

#Folktaleweek #Echo From Finisterre to the Highlands there is an invisible "patria", a magical homeland: the Celtic coastal perimeter that threads through Galicia, Brittany, Wales, Ireland and Scotland... 🐚 ✨ #kidlit #kidlitart #graphicnovel #bookcover #fairytaletuesday #fairytales #childrensbooks

#Folktaleweek : NIGHT FISHERWOMEN'S BLUES: MEIGAS "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere” Albert Einstein. #kidlit #kidlitart #fairytales #graphicnovel #meigas #bookcover #picturebooks

Joining Folktale Week: Fisherwomen's Blues: Meigas... ...Porque haberlas, haylas... Meigas, healers or witches, "depende" as Galicians say. #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweek #folktale #meigas #galicia #fairytales #childrensbooks #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidlitart

"A girl named Poppy, wearing a flower named.... Hope" On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...Remembrance Day, Poppy Day 🌺 🕊️ 2025... When will we ever learn? #remembranceday #kidlit #kidlitart #graphicnovel #editorialillustration #veteransday

#kidlitartpostcard November! On a magic island, little children make their own way to school, not just any school, look at those fabulous classmates.. "Watch out, Piggy, those wings don't fly...yet! That's a lesson we're here to learn" the teacher says 💌 🤲🏻 #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #boston

Happy #NationalBookLoversDay "It's good to be a SEEKER, but sooner or later you have to be a FINDER.And then it is well to give what you have found —a gift into the world for whoever will accept it." -J. Livingston Seagull And what better place to seek and find than in that book? #kidlit #kidlitart

August #kidlitartpostcard ! And did you know that shooting stars love to swim? Once in iodine… they never fade away ✨✨⭐🌠 + 🌊 = ✨ I am a Mediterranean artist always on the look for projects that fill our pockets with starlight - treasures to hold on tight to during rainy days #kidlit #kidlitart

Today’s the day!! ANYADA BUENA, SHANAH TOVAH by @SarahAroeste published by @KarBenPub is out now 📚🍏🍯🍎 #bookbirthday #kidlit #kidlitart #boardbook #childrensbooks #bilingual

One million things to do, but first Connie Francis. Thank you for all the dancing! - How can you not dance to Siboney? Ah, the 60s ✨🔥 Timeless icon, RIP, Connie Francis. #sketches #fanart #conniefrancis #siboney #conceptart #editorial #editorialillustration #publishing #magazine #magicalrealism

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Are we all part of an endless chain (not-so-discreetly) living out the dreams that once had to be tucked away? And in that generational chain, is there a way to retroactively tuck in the childhoods that hid their dreams under beds with lanterns? 🌻 Happy Birthday, mama!🎈🎈 #kidlit #kidlitart

"We've left Letting Go Island behind",said the Captain. "Ahead of us lies our destiny: Surrender Island. A tax-free place where there's really nothing you can do but to stay put, as cozy as you can, while the roulette wheel spins again" #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #magicrealism

A safe thought, a safe step... 🤲🏻 For so many children this 4th of July won't look the same... #fourthofjuly #4thofjuly #leftbehind #editorial #editorialillustration #kidlit #kidlitart

July #kidlitartpostcard ! Just imagine all the incredible things that could happen... when your mama IS the ocean: endless treasures ahead!🪸🦀🐠 I am Maria, a mediterranean illustrator, not so-secretly in love with all things blue and wave-kissed. #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlit #kidlitart

July! An anchor song within the world's chaos, take a seat... #anchorsongs “Save me now, close the door Put on a sitcom and stare at my toes I've had enough of today's emotions” Glass Animals, Lost in the Ocean #graphicnovel #dystopia #kidlit #kidlitart

Packing up June, The Waterboys and a pint of strawberries will do #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #childrensbooks

Feliç Revetlla de Sant Joan! 🥂 ✨ 🔥 "Take this waltz, is yours now, it's all that there is" - Leonard Cohen #revetlladesantjoan #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookmaker #picturebooks #visualstorytelling

Sunday Scaries…Special edition: doom and g_ _ _ _ History: " you promised never to repeat it..." Give P E A C E a chance #peace #graphicnovel #dystopia #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensillustration #bookcover #editorialillustration