menal khan ✩
@menalkhan.bsky.social
✎ South-Asian Canadian #Kidlit #Author & #Illustrator
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ Connect with me → https://linktr.ee/menalkhan
or www.menalkhan.com
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ Connect with me → https://linktr.ee/menalkhan
or www.menalkhan.com
Everyone, meet Melly! She begged me for a job and now she’s my sales rep. Keep an eye out, she’ll be popping up across my socials and website (www.menalkhan.com), pretending she runs the place.
Please don’t encourage her.
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#KidLit #Illustration #CharacterDesign #KidLitArt #comic #PictureBook
Please don’t encourage her.
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#KidLit #Illustration #CharacterDesign #KidLitArt #comic #PictureBook
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Everyone, meet Melly! She begged me for a job and now she’s my sales rep. Keep an eye out, she’ll be popping up across my socials and website (www.menalkhan.com), pretending she runs the place.
Please don’t encourage her.
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#KidLit #Illustration #CharacterDesign #KidLitArt #comic #PictureBook
Please don’t encourage her.
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#KidLit #Illustration #CharacterDesign #KidLitArt #comic #PictureBook
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Like many Milennials I watched the towers fall on live television. I saw the Islamophobia that ensued. There is something so powerful and healing about Mamdani's win tonight. I'm watching from far away, but I have tears in my eyes for the Big Apple.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Like many Milennials I watched the towers fall on live television. I saw the Islamophobia that ensued. There is something so powerful and healing about Mamdani's win tonight. I'm watching from far away, but I have tears in my eyes for the Big Apple.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 5:
A book doesn’t need a “serious message” to be worthwhile. Joy is a legitimate end in itself.
A book doesn’t need a “serious message” to be worthwhile. Joy is a legitimate end in itself.
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 5:
A book doesn’t need a “serious message” to be worthwhile. Joy is a legitimate end in itself.
A book doesn’t need a “serious message” to be worthwhile. Joy is a legitimate end in itself.
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Let kids draw and doodle! It helps many kids concentrate.
A very silly math note our now-teen got back from his 2nd grade teacher many years ago. He is now an amazing artist. Go ahead, friends. Draw all over your paper!
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Let kids draw and doodle! It helps many kids concentrate.
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Writing is great. You invent a little guy, you can even make him a nice little guy. And then you shake him as hard as physically possible and give him the worst day of his life. Love it.
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Writing is great. You invent a little guy, you can even make him a nice little guy. And then you shake him as hard as physically possible and give him the worst day of his life. Love it.
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dog-earing pages is good and i like to do it
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
dog-earing pages is good and i like to do it
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Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit
October 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit
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October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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It gives me immense joy when I discover an artist I admire has a Bluesky account I can follow. I’ve stopped following people on IG (won't see their posts anyway), and yes, I bookmark their websites, but this is my happy place to stalk people and their art :)
#kidlitart
#kidlitart
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It gives me immense joy when I discover an artist I admire has a Bluesky account I can follow. I’ve stopped following people on IG (won't see their posts anyway), and yes, I bookmark their websites, but this is my happy place to stalk people and their art :)
#kidlitart
#kidlitart
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your belief that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder will fix you is a valid one.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your belief that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder will fix you is a valid one.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
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when you put off everything til tomorrow it really frees up your day nicely.
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
when you put off everything til tomorrow it really frees up your day nicely.
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In honor of the late Dr. Jane Goodall.
“Each one of us must take responsibility of our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
Rest in peace 💚
#janegoodall #rememberingjane #kidlitart #kidlitartist
“Each one of us must take responsibility of our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
Rest in peace 💚
#janegoodall #rememberingjane #kidlitart #kidlitartist
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In honor of the late Dr. Jane Goodall.
“Each one of us must take responsibility of our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
Rest in peace 💚
#janegoodall #rememberingjane #kidlitart #kidlitartist
“Each one of us must take responsibility of our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
Rest in peace 💚
#janegoodall #rememberingjane #kidlitart #kidlitartist
Scrolling through #kidlitartpostcard feels like wandering a digital museum where every wall bursts with whimsy, color, and pure kidlit magic.
Love this time of month.
Love this time of month.
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Scrolling through #kidlitartpostcard feels like wandering a digital museum where every wall bursts with whimsy, color, and pure kidlit magic.
Love this time of month.
Love this time of month.
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Sometimes it feels like everything in the world is sliding backward, and it gets overwhelming.
And then I think about the art community—the people making and sharing work, supporting each other, keeping creativity alive. I’m just really grateful to be here with all of you.
And then I think about the art community—the people making and sharing work, supporting each other, keeping creativity alive. I’m just really grateful to be here with all of you.
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Sometimes it feels like everything in the world is sliding backward, and it gets overwhelming.
And then I think about the art community—the people making and sharing work, supporting each other, keeping creativity alive. I’m just really grateful to be here with all of you.
And then I think about the art community—the people making and sharing work, supporting each other, keeping creativity alive. I’m just really grateful to be here with all of you.
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My writing career summed up in one image:
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My writing career summed up in one image:
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Join the SCBWI Illustration Community in October for 31 days of illustration prompts under the hashtag #scbwiArtober2025!
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Join the SCBWI Illustration Community in October for 31 days of illustration prompts under the hashtag #scbwiArtober2025!
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Writing history on one image.
September 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Writing history on one image.
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PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
September 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
Fun fact: When I became agented I immediately told my family they had to go through official channels.
Want to talk to me? Agent.
Want to blink in my direction. Agent.
If I’m not being insufferable at home AM I EVEN LIVING?
Want to talk to me? Agent.
Want to blink in my direction. Agent.
If I’m not being insufferable at home AM I EVEN LIVING?
a little girl wearing a scarf and holding a cup is holding a toothbrush in her mouth .
ALT: a little girl wearing a scarf and holding a cup is holding a toothbrush in her mouth .
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Fun fact: When I became agented I immediately told my family they had to go through official channels.
Want to talk to me? Agent.
Want to blink in my direction. Agent.
If I’m not being insufferable at home AM I EVEN LIVING?
Want to talk to me? Agent.
Want to blink in my direction. Agent.
If I’m not being insufferable at home AM I EVEN LIVING?
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I wish I had enough lifetimes to write all the stories inside me.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I wish I had enough lifetimes to write all the stories inside me.
I’d tell younger me: ‘Practical’ doesn’t always mean fulfilling.
I traded crayons for spreadsheets, but a decade later found my way back.
Now every book I create is proof that 5-year-old me was right all along. #kidlitchat
I traded crayons for spreadsheets, but a decade later found my way back.
Now every book I create is proof that 5-year-old me was right all along. #kidlitchat
TOPIC: What professional or creative advice do you wish you could pass on to your younger self? (And would your younger self listen?!?) #kidlitchat
September 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I’d tell younger me: ‘Practical’ doesn’t always mean fulfilling.
I traded crayons for spreadsheets, but a decade later found my way back.
Now every book I create is proof that 5-year-old me was right all along. #kidlitchat
I traded crayons for spreadsheets, but a decade later found my way back.
Now every book I create is proof that 5-year-old me was right all along. #kidlitchat