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Alleanna Harris

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✨ Picture book illustrator (she/her) 🖌️ Rep’d by Alex Gehringer at Bright Agency 📍 Philly made, Jersey raised 🌎 alleannaharris.com

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Dec 5

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

I’m Alleanna! I illustrate picture books. I have a soft spot for Black history, heartfelt stories and lighting & mood, just so you know!✨

I’m repped by the amazing Alex Gehringer at the Bright Agency!

🌎 alleannaharris.com

A little girl looks out of the second floor window onto the quiet snow covered street below. The postcard reads: Alleanna Harris, www.alleannaharris.com, rep’d by Alex Gehringer at The Bright Agency.

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 1h

You can preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Prayer Is

For fans of Ainsley Earhardt and Matthew Paul Turner, this lyrical and heartwarming picture book introduces little ones to prayer and its infinite meanings, ...

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 1h

“With simple, sweet, contemplative text from award-winning author @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and illustrations from rising-star artist Alleanna Harris, Prayer Is is a gentle exploration of the different meanings of prayer seen through the eyes of a girl and her family.”

Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 1h

Prayer Is is now available to preorder! 🙏🏾✨ #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook

The cover for the upcoming picture book, Prayer Is, written by Tameka Fryer-Brown and illustrated by Alleanna Harris. The cover features a young Black girl wearing bubble braids and a light orange dress, eyed closed and silently praying. The background features soft stained glass-like colors.

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 2d

Today is Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday ✨

“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.”

(I did this portrait of her, Medgar Evers and John Lewis a few years back for Learning for Justice & @splcenter.org.) #illustration #editorial

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 2d

Hispanic Heritage Month is in full swing! Available in both Spanish and English, Oshún and Me (Adiba Nelson and @alleannaharris.bsky.social) celebrates a little girl's Afro Latin heritage 💗

⭐ "Pure, unadulterated joy."—Kirkus Reviews, starred

bit.ly/4gXFlbO

#hispanicheritagemonth #edusky

The cover of the picture book Oshún and Me: A Story of Love and Braids by Adiba Nelson, illustrated by Alleanna Harris

A page from the picture book Oshún and Me: A Story of Love and Braids. Text reads from left to right: It's Sunday, and in my house that can only mean one thing: It's Hair Day! I excitedly go through my hair jewelry. Beads in every color of the rainbow! Barrettes that look like puppies and hearts and flowers! Gold clips that wrap around my braids! And my favorite-cowrie shells!

The page depicts a young black girl in a wheelchair, holding up a pink hairbrush in one hand. Behind her walks a middle aged black woman who is holding a pink tub full of hair supplies. They are in an orange kitchen kitchen with rays of sunlight filtering through windows on either side of the room. On the kitchen table, more hair supplies are laid out including combs, a mirror, and a spray bottle.

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!

Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you so much! 🥹

Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you so much!! ☺️💖

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 12d

Weapons of mass love… Assata 🕊️🖤

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 12d

“I have advocated, and I still advocate revolutionary change. I advocate an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism, and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.”

- Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur, sitting cross-legged, stairs at the camera. She has a book in her hand/lap and is wearing a multicolored garment. Her hair has been twisted.

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 12d

Here’s a little bit of joy for your feed. I illustrated these braided hairstyles for the back of Oshún and Me, written by @adibanelson.bsky.social. I wanted them to look like the pictures in the Black hair books and magazines that I would see at the hairdresser as a kid. 💛 #kidlitart

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · Sep 4

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks so much! ☺️

Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/prayer-is-...

Prayer Is|Hardcover

For fans of Ainsley Earhardt and Matthew Paul Turner, this lyrical and heartwarming picture book introduces little ones to prayer and its infinite meanings, encouraging connection with God in moments ...

www.barnesandnoble.com

Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s exclusive to B&N members and includes an additional 10% discount for Premium members. (Remember: it's free for non-members to enroll in the "B&N Rewards" program to participate in this promotion!)

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hey everyone! Prayer Is doesn’t come out until January 13th, but it’s available for preorder now! ✨

B&N is having a 25% discount on ALL preorders, including eBooks and audiobooks, when you use the code PREORDER25 at checkout from now until Friday, 9/5. #kidlit #bookrecommendation

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Sep 1

(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · Aug 27

Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today

I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social

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Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today.

From “Rebel Without a Cause” to the many films of John Hughes, teen movies are a fascinating segment of cinema history.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Aug 27

When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald Speaks Out on Cancelling Her Smithsonian Show

"When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself," the artist wrote in a new opinion essay.

hyperallergic.com

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · Aug 27

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH

The media who do this are heartless bastards

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · Aug 24

Doing deep archival recovery work is so painstaking and challenging, but what a thrill to do that work while one’s subject is still around to get her flowers:

maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Aug 24

in 2023, i discovered and wrote a piece of history that had gone missing: the first black woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show and wrote about it. archive.ph/chXvt

today her family just let me know she won an honorary degree from her alma mater earlier this year. 🥹

a screenshot from a new york times article i wrote in october 2023 called “she was oprah before oprah” highlighting alice travis

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · Aug 17

You all should follow Raissa for her art experiments coz DO YOU KNOW HOW SCARY it is to do these? And then post it online?

We live in an age where everyone wants instant art perfection, but this - this is what art is really about. Play, exploration, finding things out in your own unique way.

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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · Aug 17

I babysat my one year old niece yesterday. She wanted to sit in the middle of the driveway and talk, so that’s what we did. I didn’t understand everything that she was saying (but I acted like I did). At the end of our talk, she said “let’s go” and “open the door.” 😂🥹