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Lenny Wen

@lennywendraws.bsky.social

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Children's books author-illustrator 🌶️Spicy Spicy Hot! (LBYR) 👻Wolfgang in the Meadow (Clarion) 🐭Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days (Clarion) ✏️Sister Scribbles (Viking) Represented by Christy Ewers @thecatagency.bsky.social www.lennywen.com/links

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Aug 29

A trailer I had made for Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Day. It will be out this October! It's available for pre-order wherever books are sold😀

#booktrailer #picturebook

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 1d

An illustrator alerted me to the attached email. Someone is impersonating me! Offering #kidlit illustrators fake deals!

This is not me! The deal-structure/schedule is insane. The deadline is quite friendly?! 10 picture books in 3 years?!

Please let me know if you receive an email like this!

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kip alizadeh @kipalizadeh.net · 9d

hello #KidLitArtPostcard I'm Kip and I'm an illustrator! I would love to illustrate a book in black and white in this style ☺︎
🌐 kipalizadeh.net
For publishing I'm represented by Mandy Suhr at Storywise ☺︎

kip's October 2025 KidLitArtPostcard showing a pencil drawing of a young witch and her pumpkin, frog and cat pals

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 9d

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Gina Perry, an author and illustrator of children's books, and creator of this monthly event. I'm rep'd for books by Sean McCarthy, more work at: www.ginaperry.com #kidlit

Vertical illustration. A kid vampire is laying in his coffin, curled up with his cat and a book named SUN KID. The book is emitting a warm glow. Text reads Gina Perry www.ginaperry.com Rep'd by Sean McCarthy

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 9d

Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days got another lovely review, this time from The Horn Book!

It's available for pre-order wherever books are sold!
www.harpercollins.com/products/pip...

#picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart

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Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social · 10d

What are YOU reading this Wednesday?

Emma's reading EMPANADAS FOR EVERYONE from Jackie Azúa Kramer, @lennywendraws.bsky.social, & @simonkids.bsky.social!

picturebooksummit.co...

#amwriting #amreading #picturebook #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky
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Lauren Gallegos @laurengallegos.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Pub Day to JUST KEEP GOING! This book is a reminder to myself that this is really all I can do at times. This career I’ve chosen is hard, with lots of ups and downs, and the only way through is to keep my head high, take one step at a time, breath, envision what I want, and Just. Keep. Going.

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 26d

Love her already!!

Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Sep 1

Have you hugged the trees, picked the wildflowers, watched the clouds, and stargazed before the summer ends?

www.lennywen.com/wolfgang-in-...

#illustration #picturebook #summerween #ghost

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Aug 30

I wrote Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days during the time when I felt so much anxiety with uncertainty or peculiar events happened in my life and the world. Life is always complex and sometimes peculiar.

#picturebook

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Aug 29

A trailer I had made for Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Day. It will be out this October! It's available for pre-order wherever books are sold😀

#booktrailer #picturebook

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · May 22

Sunny springy studio

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · Mar 28

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Smiling Eyes
Linda Sue Park & Lenny Wen
@lennywendraws.bsky.social

This is precious. Fun rhyme. Adorable illustrations.

Cover for Smiling Eyes. Shows 3 children laughing together, wearing backpacks. Multi ethnicities shown and middle kid of asian decent.

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you for sharing it♥️

Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Mar 14

My favorite spread from Outside Mom, Inside Mom, written by Jane Park, published by Simon& Schuster. It's available wherever books are sold ❤️

#koreanamericanbook #gouache #childrenbook #kidlit #picturebook