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Executive Producer: Chronology | Author-Illustrator | Publishers: Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams & Appleseed | rep’d by Lindsay Auld of Writers House Bycandicebradley.com
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I wanna take a samurai class so bad. The way I’d dance with that sword 💃🏽🤺

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Queen Latifah would like a word…

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Welcome home🫂

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My timeline isn’t spicy enough yet

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Wise words ever spoken from @solomonmissouri.bsky.social

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How does this app work? Is there even an algorithm? Where are all my Paradise, Severance, and Black every single day of the year ppl.

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He rose for a reason!!!

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“She don’t ever wanna go out.” I’m busy.

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When working on a picture book, the illustrator is responsible for developing Character design Set design Costume design Color design Lighting Storyboard Location Background characters And the cover (“movie poster”) From scratch.

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Writers write stories with words. Illustrators write stories with pictures.

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No one has the monopoly on creativity. By the time we’ve studied it enough to package into a curriculum, community, or profession to sell, someone has already innovated something new.

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“Story Artist” is really a more accurate title for someone who illustrates picture books.

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Imagine writing a love letter to your bullied children, telling them how beautiful and special they are, and then someone coming from left field asking folks to ban it.

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Oh hi BlueSky

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Never gets old ❤️

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Great News! Before the Ships has just been named an Amazon Best Book of 2024!! 💜

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And, we’re back ✨

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See a cat, post a cat! #kidlitart #illustration

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24 hours to sign, wrap, ship each book, then finish revisions for another. Help 🥹 #kidlitart #kidlitartist

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Your art had to pass through the soul, imagination, and experiences that make up who you are, before it came into this world. I wish you knew how significant that is. What it means for someone to behold what you created.

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The front of that book might have two names on it—the author and illustrator—but there is an entire team behind, not just the making of the book, but the direction, design, and shaping of both words and art. #kidlit

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To our fathers and father figures. Thank you ❤️ #kidlitart

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Honor is not just an outward acknowledgment. Honor shows up in how we respect one another’s stories. How we handle the voices that carry them, with care and intention. How we speak up on behalf of. Honor compels us to empathize and hold as sacred, another human being’s journey. #kidlit

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Happy Father’s Day ❤️ I painted this during a heartbreaking year in our nation. I remember wanting to paint a picture different than the one being painted of us on the news. One that reflected our own voice, dignity, and humanity. To all the Daddies, I hope you feel honored today #kidlitart

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Banned Books and Black Fairies II Inspired by the many requests to see more magical Black stories. #kidlitart

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Ideas are as new as human beings. The gold is in how you execute and express that idea in the time you are living in.

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School officials in Florida have banned a book about book banning

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Also, for whoever needs to hear this: Sometimes it's okay to punt. It's okay to pivot, retreat, take a beat and re-evaluate when things get unsustainable. The world is not set up with artist's success in mind. It's the failing of an unfair, imbalanced system, not the failing of you as a person 🤍

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This spread originally began as a silhouette, backlit by moonlight. The team loved it so much, they decided to use it for the cover. The tricky part came in trying to brighten the figure without losing the backlit/silhouette effect. Then matching the interior. Design did a great job with this.

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People from all backgrounds, of different cultures, different tastes, with lifestyles you may like (or don’t like).. Have kids. Who read books.

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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again” —C. S. Lewis

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There was a time you couldn’t convince me to add color to any of my sketches

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“Heart-expanding storytelling matters more than the medium” — Ava Duvernay

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Found an old sketchbook

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