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Marie Hermansson
@mariehermansson.bsky.social
Illustrator of Picture Books (7!). Childlike mind. Former North Carolinian, living on the West coast of Sweden. I'd enjoy hearing about your book project!

Portfolio site: www.MarieHermanssonIllustration.com

Pre-order: http://lnk.to/SecretsoftheJellies
Hello November #KidLitArtPostcard I'm Marie Hermansson, I illustrate children's picture books with a narrative style. Storytelling through pictures and capturing special moments within the larger story. Reach out directly to me, I'd enjoy hearing about your picture book projects! #kidlitart #kidlit
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy Halloween Blue Sky!!! 🎃👻🎃 #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartist (greeting card design I hand lettered a couple years back).
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I saw a MOOSE outside the kitchen window this am! It ran away so fast so no photo. 🥲 I went outside for a closer look & it stared at me, which I took as "hello human, you look pretty cool" & I said the same back to the moose. Now we're friends. 😄 These are tracks we found from days earlier. #kidlit
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Fall Festivities, ArtFest 2025! #ablartfest @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Moose eat fermented apples fallen from apple trees in peoples gardens. The apples contain alcohol and the moose get tipsy from eating them. So watch out for the moose swaggering and swaying around like some drunken sailor. 😄🍎
October 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Hi September #kidlitartpostcard 🍂🍂 Time to get outside & explore, forest bath, peer into a pond & see if you can spot a turtle?

I'm Marie, #KidLit illustrator. My agent @carynwiseman.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social will enjoy to hear from you!!

www.MarieHermanssonIllustration.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Snuggly serpents in this month's Ranger Rick Magazine published by the @nationalwildlife.bsky.social
Had fun drawing these African ball pythons in their striped pajamas!

#kidlit #kidlitart
August 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Excited to see that Pennsylvania Librarians have chosen The Reindeer Remainders by @kateywrites.bsky.social and I for a Keystone to Reading Books Award. Wonderful news! @carynwiseman.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlitnews #kidlit @keystonestate.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Secrets of the Jellies cover reveal!! So happy for this delightful nonfiction picture book by @karenjameson15.bsky.social pub by @chroniclebooks.bsky.social 🪼 Preorder now! Publishing April 2026. 🪼🧡 Thank you to my agent @carynwiseman.bsky.social and editor @naomikirsten.bsky.social 💕 #kidlit
August 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New design out in stores!! Let me know if you find one... there's a lot of fish in the sea. 🎏
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Recorded the call of the endangered Red-Cockade Woodpecker in the longleaf pine forest yesterday w/ my Merlin app @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social I saw one flying moments later. There are around 15k of these birds in the wild. They live in family units almost exclusively in longleaf pine trees. 💚💚💚💚
April 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Party for the Pine 2025! Hugged the 477 yr old longleaf pine subject of The Birthday Tree by Christine Iverson pub'd by @holidayhouse.bsky.social The book covers the history of the longleaf pine forest that once covered 920 million acres from the South East to Texas. 5.3 million remain. #kidlit
April 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Hello #KidLitArtPostcard! My name is Marie, an illustrator bringing all kinds of nature stories to life for amazing authors & their equally amazing publishers! Get in touch w/ your book project! 💚

📚 Rep'd by @CarynWiseman @AndreaBrownLit
📚 www.MarieHermanssonIllustration.com

#kidlit #kidlitart
April 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A gopher tortoise, native to the long leaf pine ecosystem of North America. Along with some carnivorous pitcher plants! A value study for an upcoming nonfiction book about the long leaf pine forest. #kidlit #kidlitart
January 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A moon jellyfish bloom, one of my fav spreads from the upcoming nonfiction picture book by author Karen Jameson @karenjameson15.bsky.social THE SECRETS OF THE JELLIES illos by me published by @chroniclebooks.bsky.social Can't wait for it to be out in the world soon. 🪼🪼🪼

#kidlitart #kidlit
January 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A warm & tropical holiday greeting to you #kidlit community. It's the first Thurs. of the month which means #kidlitartpostcard day for #illustrators. I'm Marie rep'd by @carynwiseman.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social lately I've been working on ocean topics but I 💙 to draw all the habitats.
December 5, 2024 at 6:15 PM
'Tis the season to be jolly... a new Christmas greeting card I designed for our family's favorite grocer. I love seeing these cards being enjoyed by people around the country. I have had dozens of card designs at this store over the years but this is my first Christmas design. 🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼 #kidlit
November 30, 2024 at 4:53 PM
What is that creature? It's an upside-down jellyfish of course! Soaking up the sun on the seafloor. This is a little sneak peek of an illo from a current nonfiction picture book project I'm working on and really loving. 🪼 #kidlit #kidlitillustration #jellyfish @karenjameson15.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
All of the picture books published this year by the Picture Book Parade 2024 group of authors and illustrators. It was such a pleasure to be a part of this talented group of women and to read all of these stories. So much love and effort poured into every page!! #kidlit
November 13, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Quite the fishicianado. Obviously not #kidlit art. 🙃 But hi!
September 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Hi #KidLitArtPostcard !! 🧡 I am Marie, an illustrator with a growth mindset...currently growing tangerines. 🍊

I make STEAM topics accessible for children through illustration. Books about forests, oceans, farms, math. Rep'd by @carynwiseman.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlit
September 5, 2024 at 10:37 PM
An illustrator in a garden by the sea. 🇸🇪
September 3, 2024 at 1:10 PM
A bit of a map I'm illustrating for a wonderful picture book about farms. This book has so much diversity in terms of locations being depicted. It's made for quite interesting research! #kidlit #kidlitart
August 22, 2024 at 6:08 PM
A wonderful review from Publishers Weekly for The Reindeer Remainders! #kidlit #kidlitcommunity
July 30, 2024 at 7:34 PM
There are 170 reindeer in The Reindeer Remainders. To track them I created a chart w/ antler styles (female antlers are shorter w/ fewer points) along w/ respective bandana colors. I did anatomy studies & a method to draw their heads, a big square, medium square, & small square at the end! 😀 #kidlit
July 26, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Happy BOOK Birthday to The Reindeer Remainders written by Katey Howes @kateywrites.bsky.social pics by me! 🎉🥳 I'm very proud of this book. I know Katey was too. It is a bittersweet celebration without her here but a celebration nonetheless bc it is a book that will bring JOY to many!!

#kidlit
July 16, 2024 at 5:42 PM