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Kate Gardiner
@kategardinerillus.bsky.social
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Illustrator ✸ New England
Rep’d by Steven Malk of Writers House
✿ Small Places, Close to Home (‘23)
✿ Sometimes We Fall (‘24)
✿ A Family Tree (‘24)
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Got some very exciting mail today, the Italian version of “Sometimes We Fall” ♥️ feels a bit full circle holding this, as I illustrated my first picture book dummy for a school project while living in Italy.
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Written by the award-winning, bestselling author of JINGLE DANCER, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee), and filled with tender illustrations by @kategardinerillus.bsky.social (Nipmuck), this unforgettable, warmhearted picture book is for family and the friends who become family.

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A green promotional graphic decorated to look like a starry night sky above a line of pine trees in the forest. There is a colored overlay on top of the design, making the night sky appear to be dark green. At the top of the graphic is light yellow text that says, “Cover Reveal.” Under the text is a thumbnail image of the book cover for the upcoming picture book “Firefly Season” by Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Kate Gardiner. The cover depicts two Native girls wearing colorful dresses and catching fireflies at night in the middle of a green field. In the bottom left-hand corner of the graphic is the logo for Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins. A green promotional graphic decorated to look like a starry night sky above a line of pine trees in the forest and sharing a brief synopsis for the upcoming picture book “Firefly Season”. The synopsis reads as follows: “Written by the award-winning, bestselling author of Jingle Dancer, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee), and filled with tender illustrations by Kate Gardiner (Nipmuck), this unforgettable, warmhearted picture book is for family and the friends who become family. Piper feels grateful for visits with her relatives, especially for the time spent with her cousins in Cherokee Nation and Muscogee Nation during summer vacations, fishing on misty mornings and playing on firefly-filled evenings. Piper's family lives a road trip away in Kansas City. So when a neighbor named Sumi moves in next door, Piper is excited to share her stories and seasons with a new friend. The two are inseparable—until Piper's family moves to another city. Their bond overcomes distance, and with time, Piper dreams up a plan to reunite with the people she loves most of all.” At the bottom of the graphic is yellow text that says, “Releasing May 13th, 2025.”
November 25, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Kate Gardiner
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"The artist used gouache and colored pencil, assembled digitally, to create the illustrations in this book." -Small Places Close to Home: A Children's Declaration of Rights (2023) by @kategardinerillus.bsky.social & @deborahhopkinson.bsky.social

🔎 #CopyrightPageArtNotes AND cool copyright design!
Photograph of a picture book: Small Places Close to Home: A Children's Declaration of Rights, written by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by Kate Gardiner. Cover illustration features a stylized house, surrounded by vining plants. In the boughs of the plants children (reading, writing, playing, observing, climbing) plus other creatures (butterflies, a bird + a nest of baby birds, a flying bird, a curled up fox, the Earth itself + a smattering of stars). In the upper left corner, a more realistic looking house emanates smoke from its chimney, settling over the whole scene. The various text notes of a picture book copyright page (including publisher and manufacturing details and most notably to this post, a description of how the art was made) are arranged typographically in the shape of a house.
January 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Recent illustration trying out a new technique 🌼
May 31, 2024 at 4:05 PM