Greyhound! Used a drawing prompt to get my creative juices flowing and created this speedy duo. 🚌
#kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration #picturebookart

Happy pub day to POSIE THE PIKA: CHIKO'S NEW HOME, illustrated by @blythe_russo and published by
Epic for Kids! 🤗🎉

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Happy pub day to Sarah Sax's PICTURE DAY, published by Knopf BFYR!

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I’m thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by Lynnette Novak, Literary Agent at the The Seymour Agency ! ✨Looking forward to joining #TeamNovak and illustrating more awesome stories for young readers! 📚🎨💛 #kidlitart

🚨 Re-sharing for the evening crowd: your first glimpse at the superb cover for an incredibly powerful book. Coming in March 2024! ☀️

Deal announcement: KID COACH AND THE DOG SHOW DISASTER by #RobJustus ! 😍🙌🎉

Deal announcement: FOREVER FRIENDS and SECRET SILLIES, illustrated by @blythe_russo! 😍🙌

Three amazing new books entered the world today & I am so glad for all of the readers who will love them! Big congratulations to their creators @itsmeaubrey & Lórian Tu & Emily Dove & their publishing teams! Root Literary

Congratulations, Joy Hwang Ruiz! I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW debuted at #7 on the New York Times Books children's picture book best seller list! 😍🤩🤗

Hello #PortfolioDay !
I’m #kidlit illustrator open to picture books, early reader & chapter books :) I enjoy exploring stories about girls going on adventures.

Find my artwork here!
🖼 gortmanillustration.com
📸 instagram.com/polinagortman/

Rep'd by Analieze Cervantes 💐 is CLOSED to Queries! at HarveyKlinger Agency

How it started. How it's going.

SARI-SARI SUMMERS(Candlewick Press) came from an idea based on this sketch 3 years ago. TODAY, April 11, it is finally out in the world! I have so many people to thank for all the support! To my family, friends, & the kidlit community, SALAMAT!

Too much chocolate? Impossible!
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Happy pub day to I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW, illustrated by Joy Hwang Ruiz, published by Feiwel and Friends!

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Happy, happy book birthday to ONE DAY by Joanna Ho, illustrated by Faith Pray, out today! Hooray!
Thank you to the excellent team @harperkids, and heaps of gratitude to @mollyoneillbooks & @rootliterary.

#bookbirthday

You can get 25% off of Spring Is For Strawberries at Barnes & Noble until January 27! It’s a sweet story celebrating produce seasonality, farmers markets and friendship 💛

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Hey friends, my Watercolor Brush Pack for Procreate is OUT on Gumroad! It includes 2 pencil brushes for sketching, 34 watercolor brushes for washes and glazes, and 8 spatter stamps for extra flare! Check out the detailed swatches and a DEMO video here: gortmanillustration.gumroad.com/l/watercolorbr…

Wrote a letter to my erstwhile employer HarperCollins; sharing it here in solidarity. I don’t often post about the work I did there over a decade ago, as the editor of a bestselling global YA phenomenon, but light of week 2 on strike for the HarperCollins Union, it seemed quite relevant.

Happy haunting, everybody!

#HappyHalloween
#rootlitillustrators

Cobweb & Spicy Mustard for #colour_collective

When you need to rake leaves, but kinda also determined to go on an adventure 😉

“I’m not sleepy…” Well that makes one of us, kid.
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