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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hi art directors, editors,happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I’m Anita, a children’s book illustrator and Im looking for illustrating character driven stories in quirky, fantasy settings. Magic is always a cherry on the top 🍒

#kidlitartpostcard #kidlit #childrensfantasy #middlegradeart

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Selfie

#kidlitart #illustration #fantasy

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jul 7

Vinyl and a witch

#kidlit
#illustrator
#witches

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thanks Karyn!

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Under the big blue
Mockup cover 😃

#kidlit #middlegradeart #childrensbookcover #childrensfantasy

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jun 6

When you spot a celeb in a cafe ;)

#kidlit
#kidlitartpostcard
#childrensbookillustration

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · Mar 6

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
I'm Anna, I love to mess around with different mediums and explore meaningful stories with goofy characters.🌟

📨[email protected]
🌐annadaviscourt.com
rep'd by Justin Rucker @ Shannon Associates

#KidLitArtPostcardDay #KidLit #KidLitArt #Illustration #PastelArt

A pastel drawing of a determined looking kid reaching through outer space to grab a bright, glowing star with text on it. Text reads: Anna Daviscourt/illustrator-author/annadaviscourt.com/rep'd by Shannon Associates

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you Stella!

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Mar 6

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I’m Anita, and I love working on meaningful stories- in picture books, chapter books and graphic novels. I love creating eye catching book covers too.

I’m rep’d by Marie at Illo Agency.

#kidlit

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Mar 3

This is #kidlit magic in the making :) so grateful ☺️ thank you for Mr Yoo, the amazing luthier to take a look at my sketches for Jen’s story, I was so excited to read the feedback from a real expert on my violin drawings! On crazy journeys a little book can take us 🥰right?

Jen Fier Jasinski @jenfierjasinski.com · Mar 2

Highlight- visiting Fairfax Fine Violins to review the sketches of MY VIOLIN with violin maker Joseph Yoo!

Grateful for the careful time and attention & the peek at a real violin workshop.

MY VIOLIN is on its way Spring 26! @anitab.bsky.social #GnomeRoadPublishing

#Luthier #Violin #PictureBook

Luthier Joseph Yoo bent over to closely inspect my computer screen and Anita Bagdi’s beautiful illustrations. Above him are rows of violins hanging on the wall. (Behind him is a copy of My Piano!)

Joseph and I standing in front of his workshop bench. He is wearing his luthier apron. Tools, lacquers, etc are visible on the desk and shelves.

Cool, artsy clock on the wall. Clock face is embedded into a wooden violin case.

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Feb 27

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.”

~ from The Invitation by Mary Oliver

#kidlit

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Feb 14

Bramble

#kidlitart

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Feb 14

Cover reveal for our upcoming #picturebook Hazel and Mabel, written by Melissa Stroller, illustrated by me and published by Gnome Road Publishing.

Happy days 🥰

#kidlit

Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Feb 11

I’m ready Mama :)

#kidlit
#illustrator
#childrensbookart

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Feb 11

So is it a little like insta and thread - but of course better? :)

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · Feb 10

Keep in mind:

- This is an independent dev.
- There are/will-be more platforms built on @atproto.com which also drives @bsky.app allowing for crossposting and the ability to move your following to a different UX (Insta/Tik-Tok/Etc).
- The value proposition here is portability.
- Power to the users.

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · Feb 9

Whoa.

Just got granted access to the beta version of @flashes.blue and it works exactly like Insta, but, it’s also… your Bluesky account.

This displays the value proposition of @atproto.com better than anything else I’ve seen. This is the way.

A screenshot of a feed on Flashes. It looks just like Insta.

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jan 11

Character development for a #graphicnovel idea.

#kidlitart #kidlit #neurodiversity

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jan 11

Thanks Hannah!

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jan 10

Also was inspo to create a character to the Studio’s dark academia prompt. I’m really just enjoying playing with ideas ;)

#kidlit #kidlitart #middlegradeart #darkacademia

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jan 10

Trying out some new brushes and techniques at Liz Kohler Brown’s Virtual Studio. So much fun!

#kidlitart #linocutart #illustration #patterndesign

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · Jan 1

Do you want to do something BIG this year that’s as good for the planet as it is for you?

#FlightFree2025 now open for pledges!

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Flight Free 2025 launch

Do you want to do something BIG this year that’s as good for the planet as it is for you? New Year is the perfect time to think differently about what we…

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jan 4

Of course!

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Jan 1

I am taking the flight free challenge! Could you join me? #FlightFree2025 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk

Flight Free UK

Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2025

www.flightfree.co.uk

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Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thanks Susan!