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Katy Tanis
@katytanis.bsky.social
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Illustrator, Children's Book Author, Explorer, Lemur Lover, Rollersport Enthusiast, Textile Designer, ADHD.
📘*🦉🦉 Love Under the Stars
📘*🐧🐧 Edward & Annie
📘*🦁🦁 Love in the Wild
Repped by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Portfolio: https://www.daughterearth.com
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Katy Tanis @katytanis.bsky.social · Sep 19
Updating my pinned books & games post! #kidlitart
illustrated children's books and games by Katy Tanis.
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Wishing you lots of love this Valentine’s Day. #kidlit
Three board books. Love Under the Stars featuring two owls making a heart shape. Love in the Wild featuring two looks with rainbow manes that form a heart shape on a white background. Love Under the Sea featuring two seahorses that form a heart shape on a dark blue background.
February 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Accidentally ran over my dust pan. If only there were some sort of thing I could sweep all those pieces onto… 🤔
Busted up dust pan
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Happy Superb Owl Day! This is an endangered forest owlet from Guess My Animal by Kathleen Yale and Stirey Publishing #SuperbOwl #🦉
Brown small owl drawing against a dark green background
February 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Katy Tanis
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Here's a small way to support Minnesotans and add unique wildlife stickers to your collection!

Proceeds to the Women's Foundation of Minnesota Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...)

art by: @feral-pony.bsky.social, @katytanis.bsky.social , @tatjanamaiwyss.bsky.social
Images of Minnesota Wildlife (Loon, Monarch, Walleye, Wolf) that are part of a sticker pack to raise money for the Minnesota Women's Foundation of Minnesota Immigrant Rapid Response Fund sticker sheet layout featuring stars, monarch butterfly, loon, wolf family and walleye
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Katy Tanis
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🎨 Illustrator spotlight on Erica Sirotich!

Erica is represented by Jennifer Laughran and open to illustration opportunities for picture books, board and novelty, young nonfiction, and black & white interiors.

Check out Erica's illustrator page!

@literaticat.bsky.social
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A bright and whimsical painting of a blue-toned kitchen, in which various baby animals in diapers are having a jam session. A pig is playing ukulele, a chick is playing triangle with a fork, a kitty is on the horn, a puppy is banging a pot, and a mouse, frog, snake and fly are dancing and vibing along as rainbow colored confetti and “noise lines” erupt from the musical instruments. A night-time image in tones of purple with highlights of gold and cream. Cats are gathered around a cauldron in a backyard. The tabby in the center is stirring the steaming liquid with a long bone. A jersey-spotted cat in overalls plays a fiddle, a white cat in a dress sways rhythmically to the music, and a plain cat in the background peeks over the fence and seems happy and entranced by the goings-on. Fireflies and a moth dance in the air and a mysterious pair of eyes shines out of a hole in a tree. A black and white pen-and-ink drawing of a mama anteater feeding a bowl of ants to twin baby anteaters who are seated in a double-wide high chair, with a speech bubble that says “Open Wide!” One of the baby anteaters is busy chasing ants across the tray with its tongue, the other has their mouth open to accept the offered ant spoon, and one ant is hastily scurrying down the chair leg and away from the anteaters. A black and white pen-and-ink drawing of a crow wrapped in a blanket, nestled in an armchair with a book and a mug of a steaming drink in front of a warm fire on a winter’s night. A frame around the image creates an extra sense of cozy, miniature charm, and the overall vibe is one of handmade whimsy and nostalgia.
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Here is a daddy seahorse and his babies! I am repped by Lara Perkins at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social. I am itching to illustrate abook about monsters or prehistoric megafauna.
A colorful, large seahorse surrounded by multicolor baby seahores on a dark blue background.
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Happy Groundhog Day! #groundhogday
a limited pallette Groundhog illustration. with happy groundhog day appearing in the groundhog's shadow.
February 2, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Happy Axolotl Day! Excited to be working on more salamander stuff - will share more in a few months!
Rough Sketch--> Final
From: Guess My Animal Game
#axolotl #AxolotlDay
Messy sketch of an axolotl in red color pencil. A pink axlotl drawing on dark blue background.
February 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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A zebra bum to help you celebrate International Zebra Day! 🦓
#kidlitart #zebraDay
An illustration of a zebra’s backside with its head turned to face the viewer. A maroon bird is standing on its bottom.
January 31, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Happy puzzling on this National Puzzle Day! 🧩 #puzzles #puzzleday
Puzzles illustrated by Katy Tanis featuring various colorful animals.
January 29, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Check out how great the colors on this Love Under the Stars Fabric turned out. Available in September. #kidlit
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Couldn’t resist this daddy seahorse toy I found at New York Aquarium!
Toy: Wild Republic
Book: Love Under the Sea by me, punished by Mudpuppy Kids
#kidlit
Seahorse toy with baby seahorses next to a book with seahorse dad and babies.
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Thank you Maria for a great interview!
mmarshallauthor.bsky.social Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social · 27d
2 terrific @steamteambooks.bsky.social authors share inspiration & insights into their wonderful new January STEM books. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Marie-Therese Miller @lernerbooks.bsky.social @katytanis.bsky.social Mudpuppy #interview #kidlit #STEM #nonfiction 📚👍
Collage of the photos (left) of author Marie-Therese Miller and her middle grade book cover (two girls playing soccer and hitting the play with their heads). And (right) author/illustrator Katy Tanis and her board book cover (two pastel seahorses in kelp). In the center is the STEAM Team Books logo.
January 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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That time, my yard squirrel read about squirrels. Happy Squirrel Day. #squirrelDay #kidLit
A squirrel looking at the book Love in the Wild. The page is ope to a page about squirrels.
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day! Check out some of my favorite squirrel books here: bookshop.org/lists/from-m...
Squirrel illustration featuring the best of squirrels. Largest tree squirrel: Indian giant squirrel. Biggest Cheeks: Eastern Chipmunk. Best Coat: Thirteen-lined ground squirrel. Fluffiest tail: Tufted Ground Squirrel. Cutest: Japanese dwarf flying squirrel. Smallest: African Pygmy squirrel.
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Happy Portfolio Day! Juggling overlapping deadlines at the moment, so here are some interiors from my board book that came out last week! #PortfolioDay #kidlitart
Fish, turtles, eels, cuttlefish, starfish, seahorses, and crabs of the Great Barrier Reef are arranged in rainbow order. Two clown fish in colorful anemones. Deep-sea creatures showing off bioluminescence. From left to right: firefly squid, glass octopus, sea angels, comb jellies, dragonfish.
January 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Happy Book Birthday to LOVE UNDER THE SEA!
amzn.to/4qcg8hQ #kidlit #newreleases
The board book LOVE UNDER THE SEA has a dark blue cover with two rainbow-colored seahorses in a heart shape, surrounded by rainbow balloons.
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Here is the cover! Some good guesses for the cover critter! Out in 3 days. bookshop.org/a/18708/9780... #coverreveal #newrelease #kidlitart
Cover for the board book Love Under the Sea. Two seahorses make a heart shape and have rainbow colored bellies. They twine tails in the sea grass.
January 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Can you guess which animals will grace the cover of Love Under the Sea? #KidLitArt #CoverReveal #kidLit #boardbooks (Companion covers in the replies)
Cover of the upcoming board book LOVE UNDER THE SEA that is missing the animals. Dark green sea grass against a dark blue background with a multicolored title.
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Good day for this book! It’s a good one! #kidlit
Board book titled Whose Prints? photographed against a snow background.
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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World: Time to really focus on the art for your next book project.
Me: Oooh, let me spend two days and too much money looking for new art supplies before I start.
Also, Me: I have way too many art supplies.
#kidlitart #kidlit
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Thank you, Let's Talk Picture Books, for sharing our casewrap reveal. #kidlit www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2025/11/case...
Case(wrap) of the Mondays
Children's picture book and comic reviews, illustrator interviews, book exchanges, and more from a design and illustration perspective.
www.letstalkpicturebooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I contributed bird art to this fun New Jersey Conservation trading card project. Can you guess which one is mine? You get packs through donations only: www.njconservation.org/njbirdcards/ #conservation #newJersey #Birds
Trading card pack with 3 cards featuring NJ birds from different artists. The back cad is a crow on a pinkish purple background. The middle card is a kingfisher on a card formatted like a King card. And the front card mine, shows a barn owl with some colorful creative liberties.
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Love in the Wild - "A book so boring it will put you to sleep." 😴 #kidlit #boardbooks
A child is a sleep facing an open book.
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Oldie tomato frog I found while looking for something else from a puzzle for Mudpuppy Kids! #madagscar #puzzle #frog #anura
bookshop.org/a/18708/9780...
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM