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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author

@laancham.bsky.social

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🌻• NYT Bestselling Illustrator ✨• SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN ✨ MAO MAO’S PERFECTLY IMPERFECT DAY ✨ ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS (link below 💕) 🌷• Rep’d by @jemiscoe.bsky.social 🌼• queries & books: laancham.carrd.co 🥀• NO AI art ❎ NO NFTs ❎ NO stealing

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Nov 8

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Preorders Open ✨

I’m so excited for Mao Mao and Olivia to make their official debut on July 8, 2025!! #kidlit

💕Preorder links here: www.laancham.com/maomao

🐧Published by: Penguin Random House Kids
✍️Written & Illustrated by: me
⚡️Agented by the amazing: @jemiscoe.bsky.social

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · 17d

Happy first day of Autumn everyone 🥰
#kidlit #illustration

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · 21d

Screaming passionately with you every step of the way!! Never stop chasing your dreams, Stephanie! Cause we about to make them all come true ✨

a baby is screaming in a crowd while a woman holds it .

ALT: a baby is screaming in a crowd while a woman holds it .

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 22d

2nd week on the NYT bestseller list and creeeeeeeping up ...!!

www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...

Children’s Picture Books - Best Sellers - Books - The New York Times

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, chil...

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats to @grubreport.bsky.social @laancham.bsky.social @jemiscoe.bsky.social — and of course, ZOMBIE AND BRAIN! 😍

Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 22d

2nd week on the NYT bestseller list and creeeeeeeping up ...!!

www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...

Children’s Picture Books - Best Sellers - Books - The New York Times

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Laufman @laufman.bsky.social · 23d

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 29d

OMZ* what a day of mixed-AF emotions: Zombie and Brain is an INSTANT NYTimes bestseller at NUMBER 5!

Congrats to the whole Zombie team! @laancham.bsky.social @alexborbolla.bsky.social @thejordache.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Screenshot listing the top 5 picture books in the NYT bestseller list

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Lucas Elliott @lucaselliottart.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hi friends! It’s #kidlitartpostcard day again!

I’m Lucas, and while I specialize in Graphic Novels and Covers, I’m also interested in Chapter Books and Picture Books!

I’m rep’d by the amazing @jemiscoe.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

#kidlit #kidlitillustration #art

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happiest Birthday, Lucas!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Starting the year off right I see 👏

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very conflicting emotions today as I celebrate TWO book birthdays. I'm very proud of NOT LIKE EVERY DAY *and* ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS. Both sold in the exact same month in 2022 to different champions (editors) who have been so supportive and wonderful to work with.

cover of picture book NOT LIKE EVERY DAY showing kids huddled around a teacher for an active shooter drill

cover of ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS with a zombie farmer boy lying in the grass with an anthropomorphized brain

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 26

a cartoon of a girl with a star in her eye and the words `` omg yes '' written on her face .

ALT: a cartoon of a girl with a star in her eye and the words `` omg yes '' written on her face .

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 26

SO SICKCITED!!! 😆🎉💚

Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 26

Grab yourself a copy wherever books are sold! Shambling in September 2nd 🎉

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 26

One week until ZOMBIE AND BRIAN ARE FRIENDS shambles in!!

Written by @grubreport.bsky.social
Illustrated by me 🫡
Published by @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

And if you’re in Los Altos, CA on Sept 7th 10:30AM, swing by Linden Tree Books for story/craft time & stickers with the author!! #kidlit

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 24

I missed seeing your art 😭 seeing it again makes me so happy 🥰 makes returning to bluesky so worth it 💕

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 24

Awwwwww!!!! I love that 🥹💕💕💕 thank all of you for the love 🥰 part of the reason I came back was to come see how you are!! But you got to me first 😂🥰 you’re amazing 🥹

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poqu @poqu.bsky.social · Aug 17

floating~

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Nadia Fisher @ariadelsole.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m SO excited to share the cover for AT THE COOKOUT, my author-illustrator debut, coming April 7, 2026!

tinyurl.com/At-the-Cookout

You can get a behind the scenes look at the cover process and more info about how this story came to be on my Substack (in thread).

#kidlit #booksky
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Cover illustration of AT THE COOKOUT, a picture book written and illustrated by Nadia Fisher. It shows a young Black girl in the center with her grandmother and some cousins in the background. There’s an uncle on the grill on the back patio.

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Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author @laancham.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have not been here for a very long while, pretty sure that hot minute turned into however long it’s been.

However I waddled in to say hi! How have y’all been? I hope you’re taking time for yourself this summer ☀️ or winter if you’re on the flip side ❄️

#kidlitart #illustration