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Anna Raff
@annaraff.bsky.social
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Illustrator, educator, curious New Yorker. Rep’d by Wernick & Pratt. Books include:
🥳 PARTY ANIMALS, Disney-Hyperion
🚀 THE DAY THE UNIVERSE EXPLODED MY HEAD, Candlewick
🦘 IF I WERE A KANGAROO, Viking
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Anna Raff @annaraff.bsky.social · Jun 15
If you're a #teacher or #librarian looking for a fun, visual storytelling challenge for students, this might be just the ticket. Now booking for the 2025-26 school year. #skybrarians #TLsky #booksky #kidlit #kidlitart
For more information...👉 www.annaraff.com/the-zine-wor...
In this logo, colorful, playful lettering spells out, "the Zine Workshop with Anna Raff. A child's hands, scraps of paper, and colorful drawing supplies are scattered across a wooden tabletop, photographed from above.
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yup, it was on. Do not like. I unchecked the box.
a screenshot of the setting half way down general settings that says " Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet - When you turn this setting on, you agree to let Gmail, Chat, and Meet use your content and activity in these products to provide smart features and personalize your experience."
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Listen Back: Charise Harper and Anna Raff share A Big Surprise for Little Card and talk about thinking with pictures. www.allthewonders.com/podcasts/cha... 📚👍🏽 #kidit #ChildrensBkPod @annaraff.bsky.social
Charise Harper and Anna Raff: Let’s Get Busy, Episode 235
Charise Harper and Anna Raff, author and illustrator respectively of A Big Surprise for Little Card, stop by the podcast to talk about a rainbow of books, thinking with pictures, and the fact that whe...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Here are a few of my favorite details from
@eljurimusic.bsky.social 's CAMBIO. #animation #illustration #motionillustration #newmusic #musicvideo
Full video here ––>> tinyurl.com/mr44h9xa
August 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I animated a music video for @eljurimusic.bsky.social's CAMBIO—the focus track on their new album. Cambio is an anthem for anyone who feels their voice is too small, burdens too great, the world too heavy. Somos el eco/We are the echo.tinyurl.com/mr44h9xa #animation #motionillustration #illustration
Eljuri - CAMBIO (Video Oficial / Official Video)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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August 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Someone's raising money for trans and nonbinary youth and creators? Get on this, people!! It's happening today! #MagicStoriesAreForEveryone #kidlit afuse8production.slj.com/2025/06/28/p...
Press Release Fun: We Need Diverse Books, Authors, and Indie Bookstores Support Trans and Nonbinary Youth
Someone's raising money for trans and nonbinary youth and creators? Get on this, people!! It's happening today!
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June 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
annaraff.bsky.social
If you're a #teacher or #librarian looking for a fun, visual storytelling challenge for students, this might be just the ticket. Now booking for the 2025-26 school year. #skybrarians #TLsky #booksky #kidlit #kidlitart
For more information...👉 www.annaraff.com/the-zine-wor...
In this logo, colorful, playful lettering spells out, "the Zine Workshop with Anna Raff. A child's hands, scraps of paper, and colorful drawing supplies are scattered across a wooden tabletop, photographed from above.
June 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Hey, Brooklyn! Know any young scientists who are learning to read Traditional Chinese? Several copies of each book in my series with author David A. Adler are now available at the Brooklyn Book Bodega. #scienceforkids
A photo of six science picture book covers on six different subjects, translated into Traditional Chinese. Clockwise from top left: Things That Float and Things That Don't; Light Waves; Magnets Push, Magnets Pull; Gravity; Solids, Liquids, Gases and Plasma; Simple Machines.
June 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Hello #Teachers and #Librarians! I wrote a little something about my Zine Workshop, which I'd love to bring to your school and share w/ students. tinyurl.com/yc44xvja
Anna Raff Illustration—Zine Workshops at the Society of Illustrators
About seven years ago, when I was still relatively new to teaching illustration, I was hired to lead an after-school program as a follow-up to an all-day school visit. I needed to come up with a story...
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June 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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On #EarthDay, we stand and raise our voices for change. 🎶 🌍 Eljuri’s powerful anthem “Salva La Tierra” reminds us that protecting the Earth is up to us all. 💚🌿
🎥 youtu.be/d8wTLrVyPpQ?...
#salvalatierra #EcoMusic #ClimateAction #latinmusic #AwardWinningVideo @annaraff.bsky.social
ELJURI - Salva La Tierra - Lyric Video
YouTube video by Eljuri
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April 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Last week, I set out on a mini, impromptu book-signing jaunt in NJ and NYC, and wrote a little something about it. www.annaraff.com/blog/2025/4/...
Anna Raff Illustration—A Mini NJ/NY Book-Signing Tour
This week, my husband and I set out on an impromptu mini book-signing tour to the Garden State and New York City. On a lark and in inclement weather, we visited several New Jersey locations that ...
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April 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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It’s #WorldRatDay! When real life rats abound we've reason to curse worse than "RATS!" Here’s Horace from PARTY ANIMALS by @taralazar.bsky.social & the gang from WORLD RAT DAY by J. Patrick Lewis. Wishing you best wishes avoiding—as Pat would say, “the wrong-doer in the soer.”
#KidLitArtPostcard
April 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Happy We Need Diverse Books Day! With book bans and challenges happening at a horrifyingly consistent rate, we need this day more than ever. #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #kidlit afuse8production.slj.com/2025/04/03/p...
Press Release Fun: Happy Inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day!
With book bans and challenges happening at a horrifyingly consistent rate, we need this day more than ever.
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April 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Come see me in conversation with @joannhnyc.bsky.social on April 6th!
fanfairenyc.bsky.social FanfaireNYC @fanfairenyc.bsky.social · Mar 2
Anna Raff is an award-winning illustrator of many children’s books, including Party Animals, World Rat Day, and If I Were a Kangaroo. A former designer and art director at The Met and at several children’s book publishers, Anna is currently on the faculty at SVA and lives in NYC.
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀💚 Here's one from the Ornithblogical archives, aptly named "What the Duck?"...something I find myself saying lately on a daily basis.🤬
Illustration of a duck, dressed up in St. Patrick's day regalia, with a very annoyed expression.
March 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Helloooo New Jersey! 🎉📚Come join us tomorrow at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair…✨ watchungbooksellers.com/events/45161
Tara Lazar & Anna Raff, "Party Animals"
Watchung booksellers is a vibrant, independent community bookstore located in the heart of Montclair NJ.
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March 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Woohoo, 3-minute videos! Previous limit was 1-minute.
Plus more improvements. I'll be updating my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky (see my pinned post) soon. #BlueSkyTips
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Mar 10
📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5)

With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.

• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly
Bluesky 1.99. Improvements: Videos are now up to 3 minutes long! A DMs "inbox" to approve or reject new direct messages. You can now mute accounts from a post's "..." menu. An improved moderation reporting flow. Better tablet-size layouts on Web. Better error reporting during signup.
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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It’s PARTY ANIMALS book birthday! 🥳📚 Gotta say, I’m pretty proud of this one. A hilarious, sweet tale of friendship and empathy by @taralazar.bsky.social and published by Disney-Hyperion; I hope readers have as much fun with it as I did! tinyurl.com/5ek7a8ax
March 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Hey, New Jersey and resident Party Animals! @taralazar.bsky.social and I are having a storytime event this Sunday, 3/16 at 2pm @ Watchung Booksellers in Montclair to celebrate our new picture book, PARTY ANIMALS! 🥳📚 Come join the party…and have a cookie! 👉 watchungbooksellers.com/events/45161
March 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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This AM, I’m making my way to Milltown, NJ for a school visit to share PARTY ANIMALS by @taralazar.bsky.social and me for the first time!🥳📚 Thankfully, my route is a little more direct than Horace here. (And yet I’m a day late for #kidlitartpostcard.)
March 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It’s pretty cool that PARTY ANIMALS is in this stack! Thanks, Melissa!😍
March 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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It’s almost party time! PARTY ANIMALS by @taralazar.bsky.social and me from Disney-Hyperion is out in the world a week from tomorrow!🥳 Here’s a goofy little thing I put together to mark the occasion.📚🎉 #kidlit #childrensbooks #illustration #animation #oartyanimals
March 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking my “Zine Workshop” to the Society of Illustrators as part of their Winter Art Academy, and helped a great group of NYC kids build their own 8-page, illustrated stories. So. Much. Fun! Thanks, @soi128.bsky.social! 😍📚
February 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov!
govpritzker.illinois.gov Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Feb 20
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Looking forward to my favorite NY State book festivals this year and thrilled to participate again. See you in Hudson on May 3rd, and Chappaqua September 27th, sharing the love of books and illustration.📚
February 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.

TWENTY.

As in, they call that getting slammed.

So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.

TWENTY is a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM