Alleanna Harris
@alleannaharris.bsky.social
✨ Picture book illustrator (she/her)
🖌️ Rep’d by Alex Gehringer at Bright Agency
📍 Philly made, Jersey raised
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🖌️ Rep’d by Alex Gehringer at Bright Agency
📍 Philly made, Jersey raised
🌎 alleannaharris.com
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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
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
Today is Mabel Fairbanks’ birthday!! 🥳 Born in 1915, Mabel Fairbanks was the first Black athlete to be inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame! ⛸️Learn more about her in the picture book biography, Marvelous Mabel, written by @iwritebooks.bsky.social and illustrated by me! #kidlit
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today is Mabel Fairbanks’ birthday!! 🥳 Born in 1915, Mabel Fairbanks was the first Black athlete to be inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame! ⛸️Learn more about her in the picture book biography, Marvelous Mabel, written by @iwritebooks.bsky.social and illustrated by me! #kidlit
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🌱 Worth noting that this publication is different from The OLD Farmer’s Almanac which many readers may be thinking of. www.almanac.com/old-farmers-...
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
🌱 Worth noting that this publication is different from The OLD Farmer’s Almanac which many readers may be thinking of. www.almanac.com/old-farmers-...
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Most of Target’s struggles are because they didn’t think their most loyal customers were worth standing up for.
They abandoned DEI and we put our wallets away. That’s the real story 🤷🏾♀️
They abandoned DEI and we put our wallets away. That’s the real story 🤷🏾♀️
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer. A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising qz.com/tgt-wmt-earn...
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer
A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising
qz.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Most of Target’s struggles are because they didn’t think their most loyal customers were worth standing up for.
They abandoned DEI and we put our wallets away. That’s the real story 🤷🏾♀️
They abandoned DEI and we put our wallets away. That’s the real story 🤷🏾♀️
It’s really rainy today! The weather reminds me of one of the moments I illustrated from All the Greatness in You, written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social. Rainy day shenanigans! 🥹🌧️
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s really rainy today! The weather reminds me of one of the moments I illustrated from All the Greatness in You, written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social. Rainy day shenanigans! 🥹🌧️
Just thinking about the first MG book cover I ever illustrated, A Good Kind of Trouble by @lisamooreramee.bsky.social! It was in the Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books of 2019 List and I went around taking pictures of it in stores. #mgbooks #illustration
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Just thinking about the first MG book cover I ever illustrated, A Good Kind of Trouble by @lisamooreramee.bsky.social! It was in the Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books of 2019 List and I went around taking pictures of it in stores. #mgbooks #illustration
Here’s a little sneak peek of the upcoming picture book Prayer Is, written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and illustrated by me! 🙏🏾✨ #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Here’s a little sneak peek of the upcoming picture book Prayer Is, written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and illustrated by me! 🙏🏾✨ #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
The first review for Prayer Is is in! 🙏🏾✨ (photo courtesy of @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social ☺️) #kidlit #picturebook
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The first review for Prayer Is is in! 🙏🏾✨ (photo courtesy of @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social ☺️) #kidlit #picturebook
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“I paint paintings of Black people, so I feel like no matter what, there's a statement there. Because each painting I put out is correcting a narrative of absence, of something that wasn't there,” says artist Amy Sherald.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“I paint paintings of Black people, so I feel like no matter what, there's a statement there. Because each painting I put out is correcting a narrative of absence, of something that wasn't there,” says artist Amy Sherald.
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that's Colombiana.
Columbus is a homicide detective who wears a shabby raincoat and brings his basset hound everywhere.
Columbus is a homicide detective who wears a shabby raincoat and brings his basset hound everywhere.
I don't know her. Didn't she go on a revenge tour after they killed her daddy as a child?
Why are we discussing Columbus
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
that's Colombiana.
Columbus is a homicide detective who wears a shabby raincoat and brings his basset hound everywhere.
Columbus is a homicide detective who wears a shabby raincoat and brings his basset hound everywhere.
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![Abbott Elementary promo photo of Lisa Ann Walter in character as Melissa Schemmenti
She's holding a chalkboard with spots for people to fill in into about themselves, reading as follows
MY NAME IS Melissa Schemmenti
MY FAVORITE SUBJECT History of the Renaissance & Lunch
HOBBIES NFL, Plotting Revenge
GO TO SNACK pizza, ziti, brasciole, cannoli, cutlets, grain pie, napoleons, pignioli, pasta [it's still going and getting harder to read but you get the point]
FAVORITE BOOK None of your business
CLASSROOM WISH LIST It's ok I got a guy for that](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjklbsuepdppuppsfluytydl/bafkreicsyyivdtkoufz6ba33zol6uw5sepnggbmqa77rru2p3istzqfoiu@jpeg)
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Giancarlo Esposito
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Giancarlo Esposito
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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
“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
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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
“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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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
⭐ "Pure, unadulterated joy."—Kirkus Reviews, starred
bit.ly/4gXFlbO
#hispanicheritagemonth #edusky
October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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
⭐ "Pure, unadulterated joy."—Kirkus Reviews, starred
bit.ly/4gXFlbO
#hispanicheritagemonth #edusky
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Weapons of mass love… Assata 🕊️🖤
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Weapons of mass love… Assata 🕊️🖤
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“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
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“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
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
September 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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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Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"
September 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"
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
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
September 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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
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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(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
September 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
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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
I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social
Gift 🔗
I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social
Gift 🔗
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
August 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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
Gift 🔗
I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social
Gift 🔗
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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
August 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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
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DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH
The media who do this are heartless bastards
The media who do this are heartless bastards
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH
The media who do this are heartless bastards
The media who do this are heartless bastards
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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:
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. 🥹
today her family just let me know she won an honorary degree from her alma mater earlier this year. 🥹
August 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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:
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)