Rachel Z
@RachelZDesigns
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Picture book art director & graphic designer
Roxbury, NJ
Joined September 2010
Voted “Best Costume” at Harper Halloween 2023! A Halloween mashup: Good Charlotte’s Web🕷️🐷 🎸 #Halloween2023 @HarperChildrens @GoodCharlotte @benjimadden @JoelMadden @TheBillyMartin @ButterworthDean
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The BOX OF DREAMS cover is now live thanks to the @consciouskidlib 💕 Special thanks to the @harperkids team, especially our wonderful editor @megilnit and incredible art designer @rachelzdesigns_ this has been a literal dream come true. @eychristine - your artwork is amazing!
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Presenting Mino the Magician! TEN LITTLE RABBITS by Maurice Sendak will publish on 2/6/2024! Can’t wait for you all to meet Mino and his rabbits next year! 🎩🪄🐇
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A rare Maurice Sendak picture story, originally a pamphlet for a 1970 museum fundraiser, will be coming out in book form next year.
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(Cont.) And now after 20 years at Harper (July 8th!!) I can say that I've designed an original Maurice Sendak picture book and it actually brings tears to my eyes. Of all the books I've worked on I can truthfully say that this is the most meaningful ❤️
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(Cont.) his house, and walk into his office, just the way he had left it. It was such an amazing experience and I'm grateful for the Maurice Sendak Foundation for inviting us to visit…
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(Cont.) Another wonderful memory I have is visiting Maurice's house in February of 2020 with editors Toni Markiet, Megan Ilnitzki, Alyson Day and several other co-workers only a few weeks before we went into lockdown. We were able to see his original artwork in person, explore…
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(Cont.) and somewhere I have a video of my son reading it. I also found some photos of her “reading" WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (she even loved it upside-down!) and him reading THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK which has been on display since we moved into our house in 2011…
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(Cont.) NUTSHELL LIBRARY as much as I do. I give Maurice credit for my son learning the alphabet after reading ALLIGATORS ALL AROUND over and over again. And both children were obsessed with CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE. I have a photo of my daughter reading it at the store…
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(Cont.) He also signed a copy of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (and made me promise not to sell it!). Since then, my love for his work has only grown as I have worked on the reissues and reprints over the years as well as shared his works with my children who loved…
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(Cont.) my career was meeting Maurice (thanks to Toni Markiet) in July of 2004, after only working at Harper for a year. He signed my copy of NUTSHELL LIBRARY from when I was a child, and it has been one of my most cherished possessions ever since…
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The Associated Press announced today that HarperCollins Children's Books is publishing a new original Maurice Sendak picture book, TEN LITTLE RABBITS, coming out in February. I had the honor of working on the design. https://t.co/9keMtXfc7H One of the highlights of…
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Congratulations to @Bakari_Sellers and @reggiebrownart! Who Are Your People? is an instant New York Times bestseller, and is #4 on this week's Picture Book list!🎉
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So thrilled to share that two books I art directed and designed were selected as School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2021. I feel so honored and lucky to be able to work with such talented authors, artists, editors, managing editors and production managers!
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So excited to work with @megilnit, @RachelZDesigns, the team at @HarperChildrens, & my agent @thejordache at @NewLeafLiterary on DIM SUM, HERE WE COME! (Winter 2023) ❤️ Yay!!!
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This is lovely! It's so exciting to see IN MY MOSQUE as one of @sljournal 's Best books of 2021.💙💙💙 Congrats @mo_yuksel ! you wrote a beautiful book. Congrats @megilnit @RachelZDesigns @BrightAgencyUS @HarperChildrens Grateful💙
IN MY MOSQUE has also been named one of @sljournal 's Best Books of 2021! Written by @mo_yuksel and illustrated by #BrightArtist @metahatem | @HarperChildrens 📚💫
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We’ve rounded up some of our favorite picture books from 2021 that celebrate the joys and comforts of home & community. Head to the blog for more information, author letters, sweepstakes, & sneak peeks! 🏘️ ➡️ https://t.co/YM4m3lly7y
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