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Jennifer Thermes
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Picturebook-maker & map illustrator. THE INDESTRUCTIBLE TOM CREAN, A PLACE CALLED AMERICA, MANHATTAN, and more. Repped by @agentzacker.

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If you haven’t been watching Ken Burns’s The American Revolution on PBS this week I highly recommend it. History is layered, and complex, and there’s always more to learn. I especially enjoyed last night’s episode about New York!

Spread from MANHATTAN: Mapping the Story of an Island (Abrams, 2019).
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hooray for waves! 💙🌊
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day today and every day.

From MANHATTAN: Mapping the Story of an Island (Abrams, 2019).

#mapmonday #illustration #kidlitart #indigenouspeoplesday
October 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My reading companion. (Also, happy for wool sock season!)

#saturday #studiocat #authorlife #illustratorlife #autumn
October 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Happy #MapMonday! Here’s my favorite island on the planet from way back in time. Look familiar?

From MANHATTAN: MAPPING THE STORY OF AN ISLAND (Abrams, 2019).
#illustration #kidlitart #maps #illustratedmaps #manhattan #iheartnyc
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The art is en route to the publisher! It’s always hard for me to let it go. This book was especially intense, and it was so very satisfying to get lost in the making. (Random studio cat agrees.)

EARTH: One Planet’s Epic Story coming soon with @abramskids. Yay! 🌎🌍🌏

#kidlitart #earth
September 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Final final touches! Though the art is never *truly* done. Ah well.

#illustration #kidlitart #earth
September 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Blues. 🌎🌍🌏

#illustration #kidlitart #earth
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We had a visitor tonight. 🕊️
August 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Good day to float in a pond.☀️☁️💙
August 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Behind-the-scenes art-in-progress. 🌎🌍🌏

#illustration #kidlitart #earth
August 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
July 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
July 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
These two. 👀👀

#workinprogress #kidlitart #earth
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
THE WOLF EFFECT is on the Best Children’s Books of the Year list, 2025 edition, as selected by the Children’s Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education. Glad for some good news. 🙂📚💕
June 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Jennifer Thermes
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
May 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Work-in-progress…

#illustration #kidlitart #earth
May 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Spring! (Rose-breasted grosbeak photo courtesy of my daughter!) 🪶🌺♥️
May 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Celebrating #MapMonday with the Korean edition of THE INDESTRUCTIBLE TOM CREAN! 💙❄️🌊
April 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Poofy. ☁️🌋☁️🌋

#illustration #kidlitart #detail #earth
April 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Somehow I missed the Publisher’s Weekly newsletter last week, with a new book announcement! This one has been in the works for an eon or so. Or at least an epoch. 😊🌎📚💕

#EarthOnePlanetsEpicStory
April 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Miscellaneous penguins. 🐧
April 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM