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Colleen Kong-Savage
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Write-handed Chinese-American illustrator in NYC. Picture books: PIANO WANTS TO PLAY, THE TURTLE SHIP. FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE coming Oct 2025.
And a Teaching Artist!
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Colleen Kong-Savage @kongsavage.bsky.social · Jan 2
This ART habit, which suited my introverted self as a kid, now pushes me out and about in the world as an adult. It has become the main way I connect with new people. Here's some images from 2024—kid lit art, murals, collages, and exploration in procreate. #artvsartist #kidlit.
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So delighted to present character design workshops to help kick off @qplnyc.bsky.social ‘s Dog Man Reading Challenge. Behold! A few heroes, villains, monsters concocted by kid artists!

#edusky #teachingartist
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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So delighted to present character design workshops to help kick off Queens Public Library’s Dog Man Reading Challenge. Behold! Heroes, villains, monsters concocted by kid artists!

#edusky
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Painted Eric Carle’s beloved BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? into a mural at Lexington School for the Deaf? Thank you, Lexington, for welcoming Plushie and me w good vibes❤️.

Made possible thru Queens Arts Fund, presented by NYFA & NYC DCLA, & materials fr Thrive Collective. #edusky #kidlit
Horizontal mural of painted animals from Eric Carle’s book BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? Purple cat, orange fish, green frog, blue horse, giant brown bear, white dog, yellow duck Artists pose with Lexington staff Two women crouched before outlines of mural, ready for volunteers to paint.
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Today is My Book Birthday for FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE! + 5 Signed Book GIVEAWAY!

buff.ly/mco1hAV via @pragmaticmom @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social @kongsavage.bsky.social

#ReadYourWorld #bookbirthday #giveaway #picturebook
October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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An interview w @pragmaticmom.bsky.social to mark the BOOK BIRTHDAY🎉 of our new title FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE!
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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“At Home in the City” is up at Queens Public Library, Central! Me n my crew of 3-12 yo artists made this for ProjectArt at Forest Hills QPL. This is what my art looks like when I wear my 2 hats at same time—collage as kidlit illustrator, collaboration & big scale as community muralist.
#edusky
Artist stands in front of freestanding wall panels with collage of colorful buildings
August 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Welcome to your week. 🩰 #violetlemay #illustration #kidlitart #amwriting #kidlit #picturebook #ballet #dance #bunhead #mbartists #ballerina
July 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Our annual summer corn picking with daycare friends 🌽
Freshly picked corn is so sweet you can eat it raw!
Even little boy (almost 2) couldn’t stop munching .
#kidlit #kidlitart #summerilluatration #illustration #summervibes
July 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Brave
Girl
Practice
#kidlitart #kidlit
July 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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First time i got a mural wall all to myself 😊 to paint whatever I wanna

Hester & Eldridge Streets in NYC

#mural
July 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This is teaching. Year 23 has been dark. I teach art in a failing, funding starved, segregated, broken school. We don't worry about book banning: we have a library with empty shelves. in my city, schools are waiting rooms for prisons. Trying to brave the storm.
#kidlitart #edusky
March 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A few spreads to share. Slowly coming to a finish with my book. This book has been such a fun personal journey and I can’t wait to share it. #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #art #kidlitmegafeed
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🎉 Lee & Low Books is celebrating 50 years of Children's Book Press!

💻Visit leeandlow.com & use discount code CBP50 at checkout through Feb. 28, 2025 for 25% off any Children's Book Press titles!
Light blue sky background. Text at the top reads, “Celebrating 50 Years of Children’s Book Press.” To the left of the text is the blue swirl logo for Children’s Book Press. Below is more text. It reads, “Visit leeandlow.com & use discount code CBP50 at checkout through Feb. 28, 2025 for 25% off any Children's Book Press titles!” Below are book covers for various Lee & Low titles published under the Children’s Book Press imprint. Lee & Low Books logo. All cover art copyright © 2025 Lee & Low Books.
January 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🎨 This weeks illustrator spotlight highlights @kongsavage.bsky.social

Colleen is represented by @carynwiseman.bsky.social . She is open to picture books, chapter books, and interiors, including nonfiction.

Colleen's Illustrator Page

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January 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
kongsavage.bsky.social
Watercolor experiments w 4-12 yos. What happens when you sprinkle in salt? Can we move paint w no brush (maybe not great idea to blow paint around w straws in cold/flu season but gosh that was fun)? Began dioramas fr watercolor swatches.
So much fun. And mess. 🤪
#EduSky #teachingartist
Gray n blue speckled watercolor paint w child’s ghost drawing Student with glasses peeking through a frame with speckled green hill and tree Vibrantly colored swatches Watercolor field of green yellow and blue. On it a child’s drawing of a rectangular bumble bee
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Hello! I am a printmaker and aspiring children’s book #illustrator hoping to connect with other illustrators, agents, and art directors here on Bluesky. I love creating playful images using bold colors and shapes, often inspired by nature, animals, and Japanese culture.
#kidlitart #scbwi
January 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I’ve been thinking about lost childhood toys recently, and wanted to draw a little guy waiting patiently to be found by his friend🐻🌿

#kidlitart #illustration #childrensbooks #scbwi #amillustrating
January 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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One of Janet & Allan Ahlberg’s lesser-know books from 1979.
(Sorry about spoiler at the end)
Cover of The Little Worm Book by Janet & Allan Ahlberg A worm is disguised as a flower on the cover and is smiling at a puzzled looking robin Cartoon drawings of worms with descriptions about their beginnings, middles and ends. Three worms drive off into the sunset in a tiny car. Text reads, ‘The worms were here before us. Perhaps, when we are gone, they will be here still. Lords of the Earth’.
January 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
kongsavage.bsky.social
This ART habit, which suited my introverted self as a kid, now pushes me out and about in the world as an adult. It has become the main way I connect with new people. Here's some images from 2024—kid lit art, murals, collages, and exploration in procreate. #artvsartist #kidlit.
January 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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How many of you out there know how to knit? I haven’t the slightest idea. It would be one big knot.
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day. My name is Mark Hoffmann and I’m a kidlit author/illustrator. I am rep’d by Jenn Laughran (@literaticat) with @andreabrownlit.
#kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday
January 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Happy New Year! #kidlitartpostcard

I’m Chris, a mixed Korean-American author/illustrator. I like to skateboard in my free time and will literally take any project involving skateboarding (specifically Asian-American and women skateboarders
A colorful mix of male and female skateboarders on a white background. The style is abstract with bold colors and shapes.
January 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I don't have anything new finished for #kidlitartpostcard today, but I am working on something new! So here is an old, rather out of season postcard alongside a snippet of a snake woman I made today.

www withoutaladder com
A photograph shows a paper woman holding a snake. Assorted art supplies are in the background. Cut paper illustration showing a boy pulling a string and a grey cat following along. There is a bright yellow sun with the artist's name in it, Airen Hall. Superimposed over a green tree are Airen's social media, email, and website.
January 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It's the first #kidlitartpostcard day of 2025!
I make theatrical, humorous images with a little edge.

Portfolio: www.davidhohn.com
Represented by:
@jmcgowanbks.bsky.social

#childrensbook #kidlitart #NYE #NYC
January 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
kongsavage.bsky.social
And a Happy New Year.
Wishing you peace and love 💗

#kidlitartpostcard
Collage of Polar bear embracing girl in turquoise against snow and frosty blue sky
January 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Did you know that in winter, wood frogs nearly freeze solid? You can see this illustration & other amphibian mysteries in my new book, SAFE CROSSING, to be released January 7! #kidlit #kidlitart #amphibian #woodfrog #frozenwoodfrog #winter #hibernation #hibernationmode #childrensbookillustration
Wood frog, mostly frozen and overwintering in leaf litter so that it can emerge early to lay eggs in vernal pools. An illustration from Kari Percival's upcoming picture book SAFE CROSSING.
December 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM