Maral Sassouni Illustration
@maralsassouni.bsky.social
Picture books, mostly —see maralsassouni.com for more. In sunny Socal.
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By way of introduction, here I am in "art vs artist"— I'm a picture book creator, The Green Umbrella (North South) and Migrations (Candlewick). My work is award-winning, including the SCBWI National Portfolio Showcase... but I'm shy and retiring. Come and say hello!
Operation Charlotte’s Web in NC
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Operation Charlotte’s Web in NC
Boosting
A reminder that "Practical Matters...," a comprehensive introduction to the practical things you need to know in #kidlit publishing, starts in 3 weeks!
Please repost so more folks will know. Questions and comments welcome...
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/pra...
Please repost so more folks will know. Questions and comments welcome...
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/pra...
Practical Matters in Children's Book Publishing: A Two-Night Mini with Editor Harold Underdown - Highlights Foundation
www.highlightsfoundation.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Boosting
Look!
Trying something new. Join our starter pack for any online kidlit pitch events. If you have an event, please add. If you want to stay apprised of such events, please follow.
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Look!
OMG, Goodnight Moon stamps!!
It’s time to share this piece of writing about this PB, which is always good for a smile Or a loud guffaw
theuglyvolvo.com/issues-goodn...
It’s time to share this piece of writing about this PB, which is always good for a smile Or a loud guffaw
theuglyvolvo.com/issues-goodn...
January 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
OMG, Goodnight Moon stamps!!
It’s time to share this piece of writing about this PB, which is always good for a smile Or a loud guffaw
theuglyvolvo.com/issues-goodn...
It’s time to share this piece of writing about this PB, which is always good for a smile Or a loud guffaw
theuglyvolvo.com/issues-goodn...
Starting to feel Christmas-y around here…
December 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Starting to feel Christmas-y around here…
This could work for picture books too— thanks Reimena!
The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!!!
comicsdevices.com
An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
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comicsdevices.com
An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨
December 5, 2024 at 11:50 PM
This could work for picture books too— thanks Reimena!
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day ✨ And hello, December⛄ I’m Clary Huang, a #kidlit #illustrator who would love to work with you on your next project!
Available for picture books, board books, editorials, and kidlit-art-related projects!
🌟Agent: Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary
🖥️ claryillustration.com
Available for picture books, board books, editorials, and kidlit-art-related projects!
🌟Agent: Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary
🖥️ claryillustration.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day ✨ And hello, December⛄ I’m Clary Huang, a #kidlit #illustrator who would love to work with you on your next project!
Available for picture books, board books, editorials, and kidlit-art-related projects!
🌟Agent: Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary
🖥️ claryillustration.com
Available for picture books, board books, editorials, and kidlit-art-related projects!
🌟Agent: Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary
🖥️ claryillustration.com
I love this!
Hey, it's a wintery #KidLitArtPostcard day! ❄️
I'm an illustrator who loves drawing cute critters and would rather be tucked up warm in the studio with my tiny dogs until winter is over.
#kidlitart #kidlit
I'm an illustrator who loves drawing cute critters and would rather be tucked up warm in the studio with my tiny dogs until winter is over.
#kidlitart #kidlit
December 5, 2024 at 8:28 PM
I love this!
Look! Brian LaRossa made a new Starter Pack listing art directors and others who hire illustrators and designers. If that’s you, he can add you to the list.
Okay revised the starter pack description to make it clearer.
If u r a designer or illustrator please boost this to help me find other hiring directors.
If u r an art, design, or creative director who hires designers and/or illustrators, raise your hand—I’ll add u.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX
If u r a designer or illustrator please boost this to help me find other hiring directors.
If u r an art, design, or creative director who hires designers and/or illustrators, raise your hand—I’ll add u.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX
December 5, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Look! Brian LaRossa made a new Starter Pack listing art directors and others who hire illustrators and designers. If that’s you, he can add you to the list.
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Writing well for children is an art. And like all arts, it's not easy. theconversation.com/im-a-childre...
I’m a children’s writer – and celebrity children’s books undervalue my craft
Celebrity children’s books are a recurring phenomenon – from Jamie Oliver and Keira Knightley to Meghan Markle and Jimmy Barnes. But writing for children is harder than it might look.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Writing well for children is an art. And like all arts, it's not easy. theconversation.com/im-a-childre...
Well, look who’s here….
JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY
“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Well, look who’s here….
This looks interesting…
How To Direct the Viewers Eye in Children’s Books Art!
Check out my substack post (free) with some thoughts and diagrams about directing the readers eye through the pictures and into the page turn-->
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrators #picturebooks
heycrystalillustrates.substack.com/p/how-to-dir...
Check out my substack post (free) with some thoughts and diagrams about directing the readers eye through the pictures and into the page turn-->
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrators #picturebooks
heycrystalillustrates.substack.com/p/how-to-dir...
How To Direct the Viewers Eye in Children’s Books Art by Design
Design your illustrations to lead the reader’s eye where you want it to go.
heycrystalillustrates.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:49 PM
This looks interesting…
Oh, I just LOVE this…
Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.
November 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Oh, I just LOVE this…
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When you ask people about the books that changed their lives, they almost always mention a children's book. They're the books that make us readers, shape us at the deepest levels, and stay with us FOREVER. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all! #kidlit #books
November 21, 2024 at 7:56 PM
November 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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1. It's impossible to control whether GOP Senators rubberstamp Trump's nominees
But it is possible to make more people aware of exactly who Trump is trying to install in these powerful positions
Here are 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense
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But it is possible to make more people aware of exactly who Trump is trying to install in these powerful positions
Here are 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense
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November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
1. It's impossible to control whether GOP Senators rubberstamp Trump's nominees
But it is possible to make more people aware of exactly who Trump is trying to install in these powerful positions
Here are 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense
🧵
But it is possible to make more people aware of exactly who Trump is trying to install in these powerful positions
Here are 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense
🧵
Please sign your name to this statement to support: aitrainingstatement.org
November 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Please sign your name to this statement to support: aitrainingstatement.org
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Read @charlenedraws.bsky.social 's tips to get your legs under you here on #Bluesky dear #illustrators
Hello to all the new (or returning) #kidlit & #kidlitart folks!
We're working to try to get the community more active, but also, it helps if everyone tries a bit to interact with one another! BlueSky likes interactions - you have to say something to get something back!
Here's some tips to help:
We're working to try to get the community more active, but also, it helps if everyone tries a bit to interact with one another! BlueSky likes interactions - you have to say something to get something back!
Here's some tips to help:
November 13, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Read @charlenedraws.bsky.social 's tips to get your legs under you here on #Bluesky dear #illustrators
BLUE SKY, step by step.
(thanks to @debbieohi.com !)
(thanks to @debbieohi.com !)
Welcome, new Bluesky users! 🦋
Feel free to check out my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky, a work-in-progress with the help of the community here: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...
Quickstart Guide: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/qu...
Starter Threads:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/st...
Feel free to check out my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky, a work-in-progress with the help of the community here: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...
Quickstart Guide: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/qu...
Starter Threads:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/st...
November 12, 2024 at 9:00 PM
BLUE SKY, step by step.
(thanks to @debbieohi.com !)
(thanks to @debbieohi.com !)
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Kidlit folks: have you signed this yet?
Click link on Alvina's post to sign the petition!
Click link on Alvina's post to sign the petition!
Goodreads removed both the Children’s & Middle Grade and Graphic Novels categories from the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards. Please sign this petition to ask them to reinstate the categories. Children's books matter!
chng.it/Bq8hHgYtML
chng.it/Bq8hHgYtML
November 18, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Kidlit folks: have you signed this yet?
Click link on Alvina's post to sign the petition!
Click link on Alvina's post to sign the petition!
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LISTS!!!
(I haven’t even read how they work!!!!)
(I haven’t even read how they work!!!!)
November 6, 2023 at 8:33 PM
LISTS!!!
(I haven’t even read how they work!!!!)
(I haven’t even read how they work!!!!)
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Still taking code donations and distributing to #kidlitart. Please send to hello@brianlarossa.com.
💙❤️
💙❤️
October 30, 2023 at 9:56 PM
Still taking code donations and distributing to #kidlitart. Please send to hello@brianlarossa.com.
💙❤️
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I’d like to gift a FREE, one hour, portfolio review, coaching session exclusively here on Bluesky.
1. Reply with art samples.
2. Random winner.
3. No emails please.
I will look closely at every reply.
💙❤️
1. Reply with art samples.
2. Random winner.
3. No emails please.
I will look closely at every reply.
💙❤️
October 27, 2023 at 12:37 PM
I’d like to gift a FREE, one hour, portfolio review, coaching session exclusively here on Bluesky.
1. Reply with art samples.
2. Random winner.
3. No emails please.
I will look closely at every reply.
💙❤️
1. Reply with art samples.
2. Random winner.
3. No emails please.
I will look closely at every reply.
💙❤️