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

- Nooooo!!!!! #oceangangsters #sketches #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidlitart #characterdesign

Disney and Universal's 110-page lawsuit against Midjourney claims the AI player stole "countless" copyrighted works to train its software.

Up to no good🧚‍♀️… #strawberrymoon #kidlit #kidlitart #childrenillustration #picturebookmaker #childrensbooks

The human birth lottery… #juneode #oceanode #childrenrights #humanrights #editorial #editorialillustration #kidlit #kidlitart #peace

On #WorldOCeansDay thinking of 12 souls in a little boat on the same sea that connects us all #hopingforsafety There are olive trees Dying under bombs Where the first dove appeared, Forgotten peoples Harvested by war Moustaki #kidlit #kidlitart #graphicnovel @gazafreedomflotilla #alleyesonmadleen

It’s #KidLitArtPostcard day! I am Maria, an illustrator with a soft bias for stories where children always win: ginger hair, blonde, pink, neon, from down the street, fairy tales or faraway...even the little adorable mischievous ones! 🥰 #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitillustration

June, already?! Every year I improvise, an ode to June, the gateway to summer, a countdown to the magic... 🐬 🌊 🦪 🪸 A blue palette, adrift blue thoughts in a bottle, as blue as the state of the world... A rite of passage for any artist? Blue. Period. #ya #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidlitart

The Side that hurts the most… No words. Just hearts. Broken hearts. 💔💔💔💔💔 #humanrights #childrights #protectchildren #peace #gazachildren #editorial #editorialillustration #visualstorytelling #kidlit #kidlitart @unicef #unicef #illustrationartist

New Englanders in despair after one week of rain...🌂☔️🌧️ #shortstories #arttherapy #storytelling #visualstorytelling #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #childrensbooks #picturebookart #graphicnovel

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom figures out there! 💐 There's a place where only good things happen: a haven, a cuddle, a lullaby, a fairy tale, a nap a fox kiss... on mama's lap. #kidlit #kidlitart #mothersday #childrensbooks #picturebooks

Happy Birthday Marco, 13!!!! 🎈🎈 Wouldn't you just love to crawl inside those baby pictures and squeeze them tight? I tried ... Still need to finish this piece as I have some birthday errands to run, c'est la vie! #sketches #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Happy May #kidlitartpostcard 🌻 🌹 🌸 It's never too early for books that teach magic words to tiny hands: Like Optimism..🌱 Open to projects made with care for little hands with growing minds 🤲🏻 #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookart #picturebookillustration #childrensbooks

Toes stretch... A sip of tea... the sun still dripping from his horizon swim Nana Poppy read stories... from a book of white pages –What?! Unless..she was a pirate herself?! Summers at the Pirate Cottage,Ahoy! Anchors up, always aboard for book adventures! 📚🎨 #kidlitartpostcard #kidlit #kidlitart

Spring is here, bringing… happiness!#internationaldayofhappiness 🌻 ☀️ 🦋 🐞 "Throw those curtains wide one day like this a year would see me right” Elbow, One day like this 🎶🌸 #springequinox #spring #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #picturebookmaker #childrensbooks #picturebooks