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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
laancham.bsky.social
Well, fun fact, I’ve never drawn a Vampire for funsies. I’ve drawn witches and ghouls, zombies and brains, pumpkins and reapers, even yokai, but no Vampires 😅

So if you see this and, like me, your Vampire art is somewhere or nowhere, quote instead with your ghoulish art ✨

#kidlitart #illustration
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
laancham.bsky.social
Happy first day of Autumn everyone 🥰
#kidlit #illustration
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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grubreport.bsky.social
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...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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literaticat.bsky.social
Congrats to @grubreport.bsky.social @laancham.bsky.social @jemiscoe.bsky.social — and of course, ZOMBIE AND BRAIN! 😍
September 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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laufman.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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grubreport.bsky.social
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
Cover of Zombie and Brain Are Friends Screenshot listing the top 5 picture books in the NYT bestseller list
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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lucaselliottart.bsky.social
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
September 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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grubreport.bsky.social
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
September 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
laancham.bsky.social
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
August 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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poqu.bsky.social
floating~
Illustration of piplup and torchic in a floaty together. They are floating in the water through some old stone formations. The stones behind them are stacked and carved like a slowbro and its tail. There are also some taillows and cutieflies around the area
August 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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ariadelsole.bsky.social
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.
July 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
laancham.bsky.social
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
August 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
laancham.bsky.social
Adding some mock up covers to my portfolio ✨
This one was inspired by the first episode of Fionna and Cake 🥰
#art #books
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
laancham.bsky.social
💚 Happy Pokémon Day 💚
Olivia absolutely would choose Bulbasaur as her starter Pokémon… or maybe it was Bulbasaur who chose her 🥹
#pokemon #kidlit
February 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
laancham.bsky.social
✨My Magical Girls ✨
Each with their own story
#kidlitart #book
February 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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monstermonger.bsky.social
i love when i look at a window and find a cat there
#arttag
February 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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poqu.bsky.social
happy lunar new year!!
illustration of a large white snake and young girl wearing a red qipao. The snake is twisted all around the canvas, wrapping the branches, plants, and girl. The girl is facing the snake and lightly stroking its face. the surrounding plants and leaves are shades of blue and mint.
January 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
laancham.bsky.social
Happy Year of the Snake!! 🐍🧧🎊
#illustration #kidlitart
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
ramen shop 🍥
January 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
laancham.bsky.social
New Year, New Magic ✨🐸
#illustration #kidlitart
January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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grubreport.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER ALERT

ZOMBIE & BRAIN ARE FRIENDS by me and
@laancham.bsky.social coming 9/2/25

Zeb understands that brains are food, not pets...until one day he comes across the tiniest, pinkest, squishiest brain he ever did see ...

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zombie-and...

bookshop.org/p/books/zomb...
cover of picture book ZOMBIE AND BRIAN ARE FRIENDS. A zombie boy with green patchy skin in blue overalls lies on the grass with a pink brain that has eyes, arms, and legs.
January 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
laancham.bsky.social
My 2024 #artvartist 💚 #artvartist2024
And looking forward to 2025 ✨
January 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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blanchiame.bsky.social
#sketch #oc
December 29, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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eychristine.bsky.social
2024 was full of change, especially since moving from NJ to TX. Grateful to have made lots of personal art this year. Gearing up for more change next year. All glory to God #artvsartist2024
December 29, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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byjessicaelena.bsky.social
Scribbles!!

#art #illustration
A digital drawing of lots of playful, overlapping scribbly marks. There are mushrooms and flowers, but mostly just lots of fun shapes and scribbles!
December 30, 2024 at 7:22 AM