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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 06/08/2026

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures and seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Hidden pictures puzzle featuring construction vehicles driven by a duck, hippo, robin and a piggy. By Melissa Escobar and done for Nurture Smart.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 02/07/2026

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures and seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social | The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Seek and find for young children picturing a little town. It has a police station, a fire station and a flower shop, plus houses, apartment buildings and trees. There is a boat on the pond. Art by Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 04/06/2026

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures & seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration with objects to find featuring dinosaurs.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 07/05/2026

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love doing mazes, hidden pictures and seek & find puzzles! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social @ The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Space maze featuring aliens, space and a spaceship. Done with Nurture Smart for helping kids by Melissa Escobar

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 02/10/2025

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I would love to do a Halloween themed book! I love illustrating horses, animals, plus cute & magical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Cute kid witch with a ghost and bats making her halloween potion. It also features candy corn bubbles and is designed and illustrated by Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 16/05/2025

The look on that dog's face on the second picture...😂😂😂

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 06/02/2025

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Five quarter horses with different coat colors are talking about how much I love to draw horses. Coat colors clockwise are: Strawberry red roan for the baby, Palomino, Skewbald, Buckskin and Dapple Gray. All draw by me Melissa Escobar. :D

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 30/01/2025

Happy Year of the Snake all! Although this post is a bit late, I still wanted to do this because I'm a snake on the chinese zodiac. So needless to say, I'm very excited about this year!

Cute snake art for the year of the snake 2025. Reds and golds are featured. By Melissa Escobar

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 02/01/2025

Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration showing a map of a land in my story in the shape of a dragon by Melissa Escobar

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 22/12/2024

Look what I spotted in the wild at the Barnes N Noble store in Walnut Creek, CA @charlenedraws.bsky.social!!! Right up front too where you come in. 😀😀😀😀

Picture of Amy Wu and the Ribbon Dance and other books at Barnes N Noble.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 13/12/2024

If you see this, post a unicorn you've painted/drawn 🦄 OMG of course! #kidlitart

Blue unicorn with red, orange and yellow gradient mane in a cloud background with a rainbow at the top by Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 25/11/2024

Stupid tech bros. I hope the AI just collapses onto itself. These books will be so completely awful.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 25/11/2024

I just realized this morning that this next Sunday is December 1st. Anyone else feel like this: 🫨😮 It just made my mind go 🤯! I'm like, no wait! I haven't done all the things I want to do! Someone hit pause, lol!

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Jenny Mattern @jengelmattern.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 07/11/2024

Map of creative pitfalls and how to navigate them. Has a creative train of thought, roads and a river of dreams. By Melissa Escobar.

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Today is a good day for self care if you need it, like this cat, hiding behind flowers & biding her time. Hope this brings some joy if you need a pick-me-up. I do. 3" x 3" acrylic & Posca painting on stretched canvas. #selfcare #cats #blackcat #flowers #painting #acrylic #posca #stretchedcanvas

black cat with big yellow eyes and a pink heart nose hiding behind tall pink and yellow flowers. striped yellow sun, blue sky, and green grass in the background.

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Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 06/11/2024

The reactions & questions my 2 sons had after waking up to the news this morning reinforced my strong belief that children are incredibly sophisticated in their thinking, and only lacking in answers that experience will give them. Never talk down to a child. Always help them reach the best answer. ❤️

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 06/11/2024

The one thing I’m certain of this morning #kidlit is that books matter more than ever.

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Dow Phumiruk @dowphumiruk.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

You are not alone, by far. 💙“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.” - Toni Morrison. #kidlit #illustration #art #artist #artists #fight #lgbtqrights #womensrights #kindness #tolerance #freedom

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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Keep making art. Keep writing your stories. Even if they must exist in secret for a time, they are important - each of them a little act of rebellion. Most of all, keep on living. If you can muster no other motivation on some days, then do it out of righteous spite for those who want you gone.

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Lvadams/Nimure @lvadams.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I find myself clinging to stories I love this morning, and messages of hope. I am scared, more scared than I’ve been in a long time, but trying to convince myself we will get through this, and make it out the other side.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 03/10/2024

Spiders swinging on a web trapeze and one spider has done my name and a pumpkin in his web. For Halloween by Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 02/10/2024

This was exactly my sentiment today as I realized it's October 1st! How????? And hooray spooky season!!!

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #357,650! Well, I'm in the first 10%! Very cool!

My user number is 357,650 and I was in the first 10% for Bluesky.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 05/09/2024

Map of what it's like to be creative and all the challenges that come with it. Has a train of creative thought, a river of dreams and features all those dead end cul-de-sacs we artists sometimes end up in. By Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 19/08/2024

I am so pleased to see this from Procreate!!!

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 19/08/2024

Yes Procreate!!! I'm so glad to see this!

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 01/08/2024

Appaloosa Horse with 80's headband and leg warmers, this horse is ready to exercise! The breed name is done with fun 80's graphics. By Melissa Escobar

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Hey Crystal Smith Illustrates @crystalsmithart.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

New article on substack! Using different perspectives throughout your illustrations can really have a magical affect on your story—take a peek at my top six! ⭐️✨💫 #kidlit #kidlitart heycrystalillustrates.substack.com/p/six-differ...

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 23/07/2024

Saw this license plate today and it's one of the best plates I've seen. Of course, the fact that graphic design is one of things I do may play a part in that.. 😉

White tesla with license plate that says sans serif.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

For anyone who uses Photoshop or other Adobe products, here's some fun news about the TOS update. "Adobe Photoshop's New Terms of Service Demands the Right to Access Your Work" lifehacker.com/tech/photosh...

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Adobe Photoshop's New Terms of Service Demands the Right to Access Your Work

Creators are outraged this week, as Adobe changed the Photoshop terms of service to demand the right to access any work produced from the app.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 06/06/2024

Five horses talking about how much I love to draw them by Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 02/05/2024

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! love illustrating horses, animals, outer space, plus cute & magical things with heart. Oh and maps! Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Two aliens water skiing on the Rings of Saturn by Melissa Escobar.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 04/04/2024

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating cute, magical, whimsical things with heart and all things fun! Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration of two egg yolks sunny side up. The bigger egg yolk is surprised that the smaller egg yolk is there. The smaller egg yolk is grinning. By Melissa Escobar.

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Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

I did it again! Here are the 2023 numbers from Publishers Marketplace for children's deals, broken down by age category and type #PB #CB #MG #YA #GN. These are *announced* deals, so can't account for pub pros not using PM (rare), delays for illustrated works (common), etc.

2023 Children's Deals based on announced deals in Publishers Marketplace: PB fiction 40%, PB nonfiction 11%, CB/ER 2%, MG fiction 16%, MG nonfiction 3%, YA fiction 19%, YA nonfiction 1%, Graphic novels 7%, Other 1%.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 25/03/2024

Whoop! My new custom handle is set up! It was pretty easy to do! Handle is: @melissaescobarart.com How to do this: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

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Marci Chorpash @mchorpash.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Marci. I enjoy illustrating stories with humor and heart ♥️ www.marcichorpash.com/childrens.html

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 07/03/2024

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating cute, magical, whimsical things with heart and all things blue! Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Illustration of a bee stopping to look at a blue poppy with pink, lavender and red violet poppies in the background. By Melissa Escobar.

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Diana Delosh - illustrator @dtdelosh.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

My art nouveau inspired card design with swans: Wedding Congratulations for the bride and groom. #congratulation #greetingcard #swans #BSNM www.greetingcarduniverse.com/congratulati...

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Kirk Reedstrom @kirkreedstrom.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

School Library Journal reviews for Duck & Moose are in, and both books got starred reviews!!! #DuckAndMoose #KidsComics

“A perfect addition to any library, and the start of a beautiful friendship.”
-School Library Journal starred review for the early reader graphic novel, Duck Moves In!

The image has a drawing of a star and happy drawings of Duck & Moose.

A screenshot of the Duck Moves In! book cover.

“A must-have series that is among the best that graphic novels have to offer.” —School Library Journal starred review for Moose Blasts Off!

A screenshot of the Moose Blasts Off! book cover

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 05/03/2024

Happy book launch day for WHAT IF YOU WISH?, a new picture book written & illustrated by @anneappert.bsky.social, pub HarperCollins. More about Anne Appert: www.anneappert.com #WhatIfYouWish #BookBirthday

Cover illustration for the children's book 'What If You Wish?' by Anne Appert, featuring a whimsical drawing of a young girl sitting and blowing a dandelion with seeds dispersing in the wind. A bright yellow bird flies in the background, and the scene is set against a backdrop of warm yellow and purple watercolor washes.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 07/02/2024

My bluesky handle includes a handle (@Neilhimself) and my website (neilgaiman.com) and it self-verifies. Here are your instructions: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

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How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky

Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 01/02/2024

Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. • Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency • Website: melissaescobarart.com @cbignyc.bsky.social

Melissa Escobar February 2024 Kidlitart Postcard featuring five horses talking about how much I love to draw them. Which I do. Coat colors include: Strawberry Red Roan, Palomino, Skewbald, Dapple Grey and Buckskin.

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🍂 Melissa Escobar 🍂 @melissaescobarart.com · 04/01/2024

Hello, hello all I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart. Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency Website: melissaescobarart.com #kidlitartpostcard @cbignyc.bsky.social

Map made from one of my stories. Inspired by a dragon, the land is dragon shaped along with a dragon shaped river. By Melissa Escobar

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