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Lenny Wen

@lennywendraws.bsky.social

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Children's books author-illustrator 🌶️Spicy Spicy Hot! (LBYR) 👻Wolfgang in the Meadow (Clarion) 🐭Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days (Clarion) ✏️Sister Scribbles (Viking) Represented by Christy Ewers @thecatagency.bsky.social www.lennywen.com/links

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 15h

Happy #PortfolioDay I'm a children's book illustrator-author based in Austria. I love to draw and write a lot of things from nature to supranatural, spooky to sweet, peculiar to mundane.
You can check out my work at: www.lennywen.com

✉️ [email protected]

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 15h

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 16h

Happy #PortfolioDay - I'm a children's book author and illustrator. Rep'd by Sean McCarthy. More work at: ginaperry.com #kidlitart

Promo illustration by Gina Perry. Night scene of colorful bugs making music and nibbling on leaves. Beetle plays ukelele, grasshopper plays a tin whistle, bee shakes a maraca. Fireflies add atmosphere.

Black and white illustration by Gina Perry. From the book Aven Green Sleuthing Machine by Dusti Bowling. A group of girls surrounds and loves on a scruffy dog. One girl has no arms, one girl has a unibrow. Scene is framed as a polaroid.

Illustration from the book TOO MUCH! NOT ENOUGH! by Gina Perry. Two monsters are in a very messy kitchen. The big blue monster, Moe, is washing dishes in the sink, looking annoyed by the small monster, Peanut. Peanut is covering his chin and head with bubbles (aka bubble beard and hair). Art and text by Gina Perry

Illustrated promo by Gina Perry. Forest scene, with a number of vehicles driving in the foreground while a fox peers from the shade of trees and ferns. A chipmunk is in the back of a truck with a boo-boo on his head, assisted by a girl gnome. Another gnome drives a flatbed truck with a load of beets. A girl gnome pedals a tricycle towing a jar of flowers.

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 1d

My illustration process for VAMPURR cover, written by the fangtastic @justincolonbooks.bsky.social and published by @mackidsbooks.bsky.social
VAMPURR is available for pre-order wherever books are sold!

#picturebook #illustration #paintingprocess #coverillustration #cat #vampurr

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 1d

My author copies arrived ❤️ Pippo will come out in two weeks! From @harperkids.bsky.social

#picturebook #author

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Justin Colón @justincolonbooks.bsky.social · 3d

COVER REAVEAL

MEET VAMPURR
Her fur shines blacker than a raven’s feathers.
Her eyes glow greener than a witch’s brew.
But most unusual of all are her long, needle-sharp fangs.
This is her story...

In bookstores on 7/6/26
Written by me, illustrated by the incredible
@lennywendraws.bsky.social

The cover of an upcoming picture book, VAMPURR.
The title apperas over a full, flourescent green/yellow full moon in the top center of the square book image. Beneath it is a vampire kitten. She has long pointy, pinkish ears, green eyes, black fur, and long fangs. She wears a purple cape. She is surrounded by ethereal fog that moves through a cemetery filled with tombstones all around her. In back of her is a cemetery entrance gate with a Latino boy entering the cemetery through it. Purple, twisting trees border the entire image. It's purples, blues, pinks, and greens/yellows.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 4d

An illustrator alerted me to the attached email. Someone is impersonating me! Offering #kidlit illustrators fake deals!

This is not me! The deal-structure/schedule is insane. The deadline is quite friendly?! 10 picture books in 3 years?!

Please let me know if you receive an email like this!

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kip alizadeh @kipalizadeh.net · 12d

hello #KidLitArtPostcard I'm Kip and I'm an illustrator! I would love to illustrate a book in black and white in this style ☺︎
🌐 kipalizadeh.net
For publishing I'm represented by Mandy Suhr at Storywise ☺︎

kip's October 2025 KidLitArtPostcard showing a pencil drawing of a young witch and her pumpkin, frog and cat pals

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Gina Perry, an author and illustrator of children's books, and creator of this monthly event. I'm rep'd for books by Sean McCarthy, more work at: www.ginaperry.com #kidlit

Vertical illustration. A kid vampire is laying in his coffin, curled up with his cat and a book named SUN KID. The book is emitting a warm glow. Text reads Gina Perry www.ginaperry.com Rep'd by Sean McCarthy

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 12d

Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days got another lovely review, this time from The Horn Book!

It's available for pre-order wherever books are sold!
www.harpercollins.com/products/pip...

#picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart

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Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social · 13d

What are YOU reading this Wednesday?

Emma's reading EMPANADAS FOR EVERYONE from Jackie Azúa Kramer, @lennywendraws.bsky.social, & @simonkids.bsky.social!

picturebooksummit.co...

#amwriting #amreading #picturebook #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky
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Lauren Gallegos @laurengallegos.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Pub Day to JUST KEEP GOING! This book is a reminder to myself that this is really all I can do at times. This career I’ve chosen is hard, with lots of ups and downs, and the only way through is to keep my head high, take one step at a time, breath, envision what I want, and Just. Keep. Going.

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 29d

Love her already!!

Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Sep 1

Have you hugged the trees, picked the wildflowers, watched the clouds, and stargazed before the summer ends?

www.lennywen.com/wolfgang-in-...

#illustration #picturebook #summerween #ghost

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Aug 30

I wrote Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days during the time when I felt so much anxiety with uncertainty or peculiar events happened in my life and the world. Life is always complex and sometimes peculiar.

#picturebook

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Aug 29

A trailer I had made for Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Day. It will be out this October! It's available for pre-order wherever books are sold😀

#booktrailer #picturebook

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · May 22

Sunny springy studio

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Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · Mar 28

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Smiling Eyes
Linda Sue Park & Lenny Wen
@lennywendraws.bsky.social

This is precious. Fun rhyme. Adorable illustrations.

Cover for Smiling Eyes. Shows 3 children laughing together, wearing backpacks. Multi ethnicities shown and middle kid of asian decent.

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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you for sharing it♥️

Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · Mar 14

My favorite spread from Outside Mom, Inside Mom, written by Jane Park, published by Simon& Schuster. It's available wherever books are sold ❤️

#koreanamericanbook #gouache #childrenbook #kidlit #picturebook