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Tara J. Hannon Kid Lit Author Illustrator

@tarajhannon

Kidlit Author Illustrator - BIRTLE early graphic novel series (AMP Kids) THE ONLY GHOST IN SCHOOL & THE ONLY GHOST AT SUMMER CAMP (Penguin Workshop Aug 2025) www.tarajhannon.com

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Love you, thank yooouuuu ♥️♥️♥️♥️

09.11.2025 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THE ONLY GHOST IN SCHOOL by @tarajhannon.bsky.social is filled with laugh-out-loud and heart-tugging moments. Kiddos will abso-BOO-tely love the super fun wordplay, clever illustrations, and hilarious lines in this faboolous book about friendship, celebrating differences, and being yourself! #kidlit

02.11.2025 13:39 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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15.10.2025 20:48 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hi #kidlitartpostcard day!

I’m a #kidlit #authorillustrator who enjoys creating character driven stories that are high in heart and humor.

I am represented by Elizabeth Bennett ♥️
You can find more or my work on my website www.tarajhannon.com

#kidlitillustration #kidlitartist #kidlitauthor

07.08.2025 13:05 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Very pumped to see Groucho on this list!!

30.06.2025 22:05 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨BEWARE🚨
In a few weeks this grouchy groundhog infiltrates bookstores!

This book, written by @lydialukidis.bsky.social illustrated by me, is a fun adventure, filled w/hilarious puns and big feelings. It’s perfect for emerging readers looking for silly characters to make them laugh.

#graphicnovel

23.06.2025 11:53 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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OH happy day!! After creating this grumpy character in grade 5, @tarajhannon.bsky.social and I can finally reveal the cover for our upcoming early graphic novel, GROUCHO THE GROUCHY GROUNDHOG!
#kidlit #WritingCommunity #graphicnovels #amreading #amwriting #books @andrewsmcmeelkids.bsky.social

15.05.2025 19:44 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

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14.05.2025 10:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hi #kidlitartpostcard!

I am a #kidlit #authorillustrator who loves quirky, humorous characters. I create across all Kidlit genres. I would love to be considered for your #illustration projects!

I am represented by Elizabeth Bennett.
www.tarajhannon.com

#kidlitart #kidlitillustration #author

01.05.2025 16:48 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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The first reviews for The Only Ghost series are in from Kirkus and they are good! ♥️ (phew!)

Thanks, Kirkus!

24.04.2025 17:40 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Congratulations!

06.03.2025 23:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love her 😍

06.03.2025 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hi #kidlitartpostcard, I’m an #authorillustrator who creates across all #kidlit genres.

I am particularly drawn to humorous projects and I love art with clever additions that earn extra laughs.

I am represented by Elizabeth Bennett.
www.tarajhannon.com

#kidlitillustration #kidlitartist

06.03.2025 14:22 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Hey #kidlitartpostcard
I’m an author/illustrator,
open to work on fun picture books, board books, activity books, and non-fiction.
Let’s create awesome books together!
Portfolio : marushabelle.com
Contact: hello@marushabelle.com
#kidlit #kidlitart

06.03.2025 14:08 👍 86 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Logo says Kaz Author Artist with a bat hanging from the "A." Image is a squid holding a picture of underpants while a crab, turtle, and puffer fish approach a boat whith a child putting on snorkel gear. Image of cover is placed in a postage stamp shape and shows the same squid wearing pants while friends float in background in underwear. Squid in Pants/Ready to Read

Logo says Kaz Author Artist with a bat hanging from the "A." Image is a squid holding a picture of underpants while a crab, turtle, and puffer fish approach a boat whith a child putting on snorkel gear. Image of cover is placed in a postage stamp shape and shows the same squid wearing pants while friends float in background in underwear. Squid in Pants/Ready to Read

Just keep swimming! SQUID IN PANTS is out May 13th!

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day. My name is Kaz Windness and I’m a #kidlit author, illustrator, and teacher. I'm rep’d by Timothy Travaglini/Transatlantic Agency and I love drawing cute animals best! #kidlitpostcard #kidlitart #illustration

06.03.2025 14:14 👍 85 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Meg, a picture book author-illustrator from PA. We're inching toward Spring, but I loved working on this holiday piece!

✨Rep: John Rudolph at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
✨Portfolio: www.megauchenbach.com
#kidlit #kidlitpostcardday #kidlitpostcard #kidlitcommunity

06.03.2025 14:17 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Love these colors!

06.03.2025 14:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! 💌
Always looking for fun, colorful PB, MG & children’s-adjacent projects!

📚Rep’d for book work by @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social at @bookendsliterary.bsky.social
🎨 Portfolio bryonycrane.com
✏️ More in-process work and life nonsense at instagram.com/bryonycrane

06.03.2025 11:19 👍 69 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Postcard for #kidlitartpostcard day, digital artwork of a teacher and their students on a field trip to the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Postcard for #kidlitartpostcard day, digital artwork of a teacher and their students on a field trip to the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

I'm Rachel and I love drawing picture books!

Portfolio- www.behance.net/speakyst
💌speakyst@gmail.com

#kidlitart #kidlit #kidlitpostcard #illustration

06.03.2025 12:26 👍 81 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
A simple ink drawing of a dog sitting and looking at a vintage gramophone, with a real purple petunia flower replacing the gramophone's horn. The dog appears to be listening to the flower as if it were music. The image is signed by Debbie Ridpath Ohi and includes her copyright information.

A simple ink drawing of a dog sitting and looking at a vintage gramophone, with a real purple petunia flower replacing the gramophone's horn. The dog appears to be listening to the flower as if it were music. The image is signed by Debbie Ridpath Ohi and includes her copyright information.

POLL: What are your favourite AUDIOBOOKS & PODCASTS? While my eye recovers from surgery, I'm leaning more toward audio than visual reading. #CommunityPolls #Uplift

I'm currently listening to:

PACHINKO by @minjinlee.bsky.social
ROGUE PROTOCOL (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by @marthawells.com

06.03.2025 14:11 👍 75 🔁 6 💬 23 📌 0

We think Maltese/Bichon Frise mix she is about 15lbs and very sweet (despite her intense teething!)

05.03.2025 17:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Smile, Tilly!

05.03.2025 17:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A compilation of ten 2025 middle grade covers including The Trouble With Sunshine, The Other Side of Imani, Aarzu All Around, Chef's Secret, Same Page, Racing The Clouds, Dreamslinger, Keepers of the Marsh, Encounter At Owl Rock and Delta and The Lost City

A compilation of ten 2025 middle grade covers including The Trouble With Sunshine, The Other Side of Imani, Aarzu All Around, Chef's Secret, Same Page, Racing The Clouds, Dreamslinger, Keepers of the Marsh, Encounter At Owl Rock and Delta and The Lost City

🎨 2025 has brought us so many incredible book covers! In Pop! Goes The Reader's newest post, I share 25 of my recent favourite 2025 middle grade book covers and the designers and artists responsible for creating them. 🎨
popgoesthereader.com/do-judge-a-b... #BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

12.02.2025 17:49 👍 43 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 5
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The girls chose to give out #Birtle #valentines this year and it’s the Garry best 😍

13.02.2025 14:05 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Editor Ivan Taurisano's #MSWL - Abrams Books
Editor Ivan Taurisano's #MSWL - Abrams Books YouTube video by The Manuscript Academy, LLC

Next up in our Agent + Editor #MSWL Series: Ivan Taurisano, Abrams Books.

Ivan is looking for:
Picture books
Novelty books
Graphic novels
Select Middle Grade + Young Adult
Books for ages 0-5

View here: youtu.be/EYtNvklOiyM?...

12.02.2025 19:58 👍 63 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1
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08.02.2025 16:06 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic advertising the Barnes and Noble preorder sale for 25% off for premium and rewards members through Friday, February 7. Includes the cover for THE THIRTEEN DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE, a book cover in moody blues, grays, and purples showing a wolf, an owl, and a black cat coming out of the doors. Set on the Maine coast, this Gothic mystery is perfect for ages 8 to 12. Also shown is the cover of the picture book COUSINS illustrated by Luisa Leal. The cover, with the title in bubble letters in front of an orange sunburst, shows several children engaging in imaginative play, with waves and a colorful pink Kraken arm beneath them.

Graphic advertising the Barnes and Noble preorder sale for 25% off for premium and rewards members through Friday, February 7. Includes the cover for THE THIRTEEN DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE, a book cover in moody blues, grays, and purples showing a wolf, an owl, and a black cat coming out of the doors. Set on the Maine coast, this Gothic mystery is perfect for ages 8 to 12. Also shown is the cover of the picture book COUSINS illustrated by Luisa Leal. The cover, with the title in bubble letters in front of an orange sunburst, shows several children engaging in imaginative play, with waves and a colorful pink Kraken arm beneath them.

Barnes & Noble is having their preorder sale & that means you can preorder both of my books out this May for 25% off now - Friday! I've got a spooky MG haunted house mystery & a fun, cheerful PB celebrating the joys of extended family, specifically COUSINS!

05.02.2025 19:43 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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LEGO Our Amazing Universe: World Book Day 2025: Fantastic Building Ideas and Facts About Our Universe Buy LEGO Our Amazing Universe: World Book Day 2025: Fantastic Building Ideas and Facts About Our Universe by DK (ISBN: 9780241740859) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

If you want to see more of the LEGO Our Amazing Universe book, click here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/024174085...
@dkbooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity

06.02.2025 21:54 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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In 1 MONTH I'll be in LONDON for World Book Day (UK & Ireland) chatting with tons of awesome kids abt my book co-written w/Arwin Hubbard.

I'm so honored to attend this FANTASTIC nation-wide celebration of #literacy. @steamteambooks.bsky.social @dkbooks.bsky.social @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social 🧪

06.02.2025 21:51 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Hi #kidlitartpostcard!

I’m here with my sweet tooth this month 🍭

I’m an #authorillustrator who creates across all #kidlit genres. I am drawn to humorous stories and I love drawing #unicorns.

I’m rep’d by Elizabeth Bennett
www.tarajhannon.com

06.02.2025 16:45 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0