Artist: Ricardo Cortés

Material: Acrylic and Gouache

Size: 11" x 24"

Framed: Yes

The New York Times called Go the Fuck to Sleep "a new Bible for weary parents." The Washington Post called the book "a parenting zeitgeist . . . a phenomenon that has stunned the publishing world and may just redefine the modern 'parenting' market."GTFTS went on to become a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly #1 best seller.

The book's illustrator has never sold any of its original images; this is the first full spread from the book that Ricardo has offered to the public. This original painting was made with acrylic and gouache and serves as a background to the third spread from the book. The illustration is on acid-free cold-pressed watercolor paper, and measures 11" x 24" in its frame.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $3000 Estimated Value of this artwork

30 minute call with author Angie Thomas

Winning bidder will receive a AMA 30-minute phone call with Angie Thomas to discuss writing, publishing, and finding your voice.

Angie Thomas was born and raised in Mississippi, but now calls Atlanta her home. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop. She can also still rap if needed.

Angie is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse Books. Her debut novel, THE HATE U GIVE, started as a senior project in college. It was later acquired by the Balzer+Bray imprint of HarperCollins Publishers in a 13-publisher auction and debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, winning the ALA's William C. Morris Debut Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA), the Waterstones Children's Book Prize (UK), and the Deutscher Jugendliterapreis (Germany). THE HATE U GIVE was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr.

Angie's second novel, ON THE COME UP, is a #1 New York Times bestseller as well, and a film is in development with Paramount Pictures with Angie acting as a producer. In 2020, Angie released FIND YOUR VOICE: A Guided Journal to Writing Your Truth as a tool to help aspiring writers tell their stories. In 2021, Angie returned to the world of Garden Heights with CONCRETE ROSE, a prequel to THE HATE U GIVE focused on seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter that debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Artist: Jessica Love

Material: Watercolor and pencil on cotton paper

Size: 11" x 7.5"

Framed: No

Jessica Love is the author and illustrator of Julián is a Mermaid, and Julián at the Wedding, published by Candlewick Press, and the illustrator of I Love You Because I Love You by M??n Th? V?n and published by HarperCollins. Jessica grew up in Southern California, raised by a pair of artist parents. She studied printmaking and illustration at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then went on to study Drama at Juilliard. After working as an actor in New York for ten years, she made a pivot and created Julián is a Mermaid, her first book. Jessica lives in the Hudson Valley with her sweetheart and their son.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $500 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Afua Richardson

Material: Print

Size: 11" x 14"

Framed: No

Afua Richardson [ Pronounced Uh-FOO-wah ] is an American illustrator best known for her work on the Eisner winning series Black Panther World of Wakanda. Other works include Xmen 92, All-Star Batman, and HBO's Lovecraft Country directed by Misha Green and Produced by JJ Abrams and Jordan Peele. In addition to being an illustrator, Afua is a singer/ Songwriter, Musician and voice actor, and mentor to many aspiring artists. She is the creator of her upcoming series Aquarius the Book of Mer.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $45 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Molly Crabapple

Material: Pen and Ink

Size: 9.5" x 13.5"

Framed: No

Molly Crabapple is the author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Her animated films have been nominated for three Emmys, and won an Edward R. Murrow Award. Crabapple's reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $2000 Estimated Value of this artwork

30 Minute Call with Publisher Namrata Tripathi

Winning bidder will receive a 30-minute phone call with Namrata to discuss manuscripts, answer queries about the industry, or workshop ideas.

Namrata Tripathi is Founder and Publisher of Kokila Books. She is the editor of New York Times bestsellers Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison, and Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky; the Newbery Honor-winning middle grade novel The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani; and the National Book Award Finalists Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley, Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay, and The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor. Namrata grew up in Afghanistan, India, Canada, Pakistan, Germany, and Poland, and has happily called New York City home for the last twenty-five years.

Artist: Molly Idle

Material: Print

Size: 19 x 13"

Framed: No

Molly Idle is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott Honor-winning picture book Flora and the Flamingo (and the rest of the Flora books too). She's also the creator of the Rex series (which includes Tea Rex and Sea Rex), and the mermaid tales Pearl and Coral.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $100 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Bruce Brenneise

Material: Canvas Print + Shadowbox Frame

Size: 24" x 16"

Framed: Yes

Limited edition #6 / 100 This piece features prominently in the tabletop RPG, 'Numenera: Destiny', and also can be found in the annuals 'Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art' and 'Infected by Art - Volume 7'.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $300 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Mo Willems

Material: Pencil

Size: 11" x 14"

Framed: No

Mo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was also an inaugural inductee into the Indies Choice Picture Book Hall of Fame. Mo's celebrated Elephant & Piggie early reader series has been awarded two Theodor Seuss Geisel Medals (for There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside?) and five Geisel Honors (for We Are in a Book!, I Broke My Trunk!, Let's Go for a Drive!, A Big Guy Took My Ball!, and Waiting Is Not Easy!). In 2019, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC named Mo the first-ever Education Artist-in-Residence. Mo began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $5000 Estimated Value of this artwork

30 minute call with author Margaret Stohl

Winning bidder will receive a 30-minute phone call with Margaret Stohl for advice on the business and art of books, comics, video games and IP.

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Margaret Stohl is a #1 New York Times bestselling nerd, world-builder, video game creator, comic book writer and festival founder.

A former game designer and writer who went on to become the co-founder of the game developer 7 Studios, Margaret is now best known for her career as a novelist. As an award-winning young adult author, she has published more than fifteen novels and graphic novels, in fifty countries and thirty-two languages, and has sold more than ten million books worldwide. Beautiful Creatures debuted as the Amazon #1 Teen book of the year and was released as a feature film from Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment; seven of Margaret's books have reached bestseller lists around the world.

Margaret often collaborates with Marvel, where she is known for her bestselling Black Widow YA novels, as well as her ongoing comic Mighty Captain Marvel, and the mini-series Life of Captain Marvel, where she established a new origin story for Carol Danvers ahead of the theatrical debut of Brie Larson as "Captain Marvel" for the MCU. Currently, Margaret is writing the Spider-Man Noir miniseries, Spider-Man Noir: Twilight in Babylon, as well as other unannounced Marvel projects.

Margaret still regularly works as a creative consultant for the videogame industry, where her clients have included Activision/Blizzard, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer, EA, Dice, Bungie, 2K, Firaxis, and Marvel Games. She is also the former Head of IP Incubation at Bungie.

When not building books or games or comics, Margaret can often be seen at a Comicon or at one of the teen and youth book festivals she co-founded, YALLFEST (Charleston, SC) and YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA), the largest in the country. Wherever she goes, you can find out more about her at @mstohl on twitter or margaret_stohl on instagram or margaret_stohl on snapchat or at mstohl.com.

Artist: Gibby Haynes

Material: Two-sided water color and ink and pencil drawing on paper

Size: 8" x 6"

Framed: No

Gibson Jerome Haynes is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band Butthole Surfers.

'*Bidding begins at 40% of the $3000 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Tillamook Cheddar

Material: Oil stick on watercolor block

Size: 22" x 30"

Framed: Yes

Tillamook Cheddar, a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is widely regarded as the world's preeminent canine artist. Over a 14-year career she had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Bermuda. Tillie's terrestrial life came to an end on January 29, 2014, twelve days after her 15th birthday.

The artist's primary process was a dynamic color transfer technique. In preparation for each of Tillie's works, her assistants assembled a touch-sensitive recording device by affixing pigment-coated vellum to a block of watercolor paper, with a sheet of clear mylar on top, to insulate the artist from the paint medium. Working on the outside surface, she applied pressure with teeth and claws in a methodic ritual marked by dramatic shifts in tempo and intensity. The resultant sharp and sweeping intersecting lines complement the artist's delicate paw prints and subtle tongue impressions, composing an expressionistic image revealed on the paper once the outer layers of vellum and mylar have been removed. She worked with shocking intensity, sometimes to the point of destroying her creations.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $2500 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Thyra Heder

Material: Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

Size: 5" x 7"

Framed: No

Winning bidder will receive a watercolor and pencil portrait of up to two dancers of your choosing!

Dance Portraits! are small watercolor paintings, based on a dance videos you send to the artist Thyra Heder (author and illustrator of How Do You Dance?). A good resolution, full body video in good light is necessary.

Thyra Heder is an author and illustrator of many more picture books for children, including Fraidyzoo, The Bear Report, Alfie, and the forthcoming Sal Boat: (A Boat by Sal).

Partial Manuscript + Query Critique with Agent Eric Smith

Winning bidder will receive a critique of their manuscript's first 50 pages, as well as a query critique. Please note, pages are expected to be in New Times Roman 12-point font and double spaced.

Eric Smith is a literary agent with P.S. Literary and a Young Adult author living in Philadelphia. He's worked on New York Times bestselling and award-winning books. In his author life, his novels include Don't Read the Comments (a YALSA 2021 Best Fiction for Young Adults selection), You Can Go Your Own Way, and Jagged Little Pill: The Novel, written with Alanis Morrissette, Academy award-winner Diablo Cody, and Glen Ballard.

Artist: Afua Richardson

Material: Print

Size: 11" x 14"

Framed: No

Afua Richardson [ Pronounced Uh-FOO-wah ] is an American illustrator best known for her work on the Eisner winning series Black Panther World of Wakanda. Other works include Xmen 92, All-Star Batman, and HBO's Lovecraft Country directed by Misha Green and Produced by JJ Abrams and Jordan Peele. In addition to being an illustrator, Afua is a singer/ Songwriter, Musician and voice actor, and mentor to many aspiring artists. She is the creator of her upcoming series Aquarius the Book of Mer.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $45 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Lisa Brown

Material: Print, Digital Drawing

Size: Both 8.5" x 11"

Framed: No

LISA BROWN is a New York Times bestselling illustrator, author and cartoonist. Her award-winning picture books include: The Airport Book, How to Be, Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert, Emily's Blue Period by Cathleen Daly, and The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler. She has also collaborated on three books with author Lemony Snicket: The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy, and Goldfish Ghost. She is the creator of the "Baby Be of Use" series of board books for McSweeney's, including Baby Mix Me a Drink and Baby Fix My Car. Her latest books include The Phantom Twin: a full length graphic novel for teens, and Long Story Short: a collection of comics. She is married to the novelist Daniel Handler and lives with him and their teenage son in San Francisco, where she teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Arts.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $1000 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: John K Snyder III

Material: Prismacolor pencil and paint on canson paper

Size: 8.5" x 11"

Framed: No

John K. Snyder III has been a veteran in the comics field for over thirty years, and has worked for nearly every major publisher throughout his career. John is known for his distinctive, graphic style and attention to detail in his work. Credits include work on key issues of the 1980's run of SUICIDE SQUAD as well as covers for the 2007 mini-series. Other published/licensed covers and trading card, pin-up, and gallery pieces include well-known subjects such as GREEN LANTERN, VAMPIRELLA, STAR TREK, STAR WARS, THE SHADOW, THE SPECTRE, PLANET OF THE APES, JONNY QUEST, THE SPIRIT, and many others. Additional cover work includes a run of classic cover re-creations for THE OVERSTREET PRICE GUIDE featuring the FANTASTIC FOUR, DAREDEVIL, THE HULK, THOR, X-MEN, IRON MAN, and the Golden Age JUSTICE SOCIETY. In collaboration with Matt Wagner, Snyder co/re-imagined DOCTOR MID-NITE(Pieter Cross)for DC Comics. Other work includes the landmark GOD AND THE DEVIL storyline of Matt Wagner's GRENDEL. John is also known as the creator of the groundbreaking alternative comic series FASHION IN ACTION, featuring the adventures of an all-female celebrity protection agency in the late, far-out 21st century. John also co-created the 1980's series LEO KRAGG:THE PROWLER with Timothy Truman and Michael Price. Also,in collaboration with Matt Wagner, John co-created LADY ZORRO for Dynamite. JUST ANNOUNCED! John's Graphic Novel adaptation of LAWRENCE BLOCK'S classic detective novel EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE featuring MATTHEW SCUDDER, published by IDW, is now available from booksellers, bookstores, and comic shops everywhere!

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $350 Estimated Value of this artwork

30 Minute Call with Publisher Stacey Barney

Winning bidder will receive a 30-minute phone call with Stacey to discuss manuscripts, answer queries about the industry, or workshop ideas.

Stacey Barney joined Nancy Paulsen Books for Young Readers as Associate Publisher in 2021. She edits a diverse list of award-winning and bestselling young adult and middle grade fiction as well as select picture books and nonfiction. Her list includes New York Times bestselling authors Krystal Sutherland, Renée Ahdieh, Katherine Arden, Ellen Hopkins, and American Ballet Theater principal dancer Misty Copeland, as well as Caldecott Honor-winning The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu.

Artist: Jenny Laden

Material: Goache and Watercolor on Paper

Size: 18" x 24"

Framed: Yes

Born In Philadelphia, in 1970, Jenny began painting at the age of 9. After mastering paintings of oranges and boots, she moved onto the human figure. In 1988, she moved to New York City to attend Barnard College where she studied art and art history. In New York, she learned the art world ways through her work at White Columns, working with Bill Arning and Paul Ha. In 1998, she received her Master's Degree in Fine Art from New York University. She has exhibited in New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, McClean, Richmond, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Berlin, and had work in multiple publications.

In 2009, Laden moved back to Philadelphia, where she currently lives and works.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $800 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Katie Yamasaki

Material: color pencil

Size: TBD

Framed: No

Katie Yamasaki is a muralist and children's book artist. She has painted over 80 murals around the world that explore issues of identity and social justice.

Katie's children's book work focuses on similar themes of social justice and stories from underrepresented communities. She has written and illustrated several books including Fish for Jimmy (Holiday House, 2013), Dad Bakes (Norton Young Readers, 2021), and When the Cousins Came (Holiday House, 2018). Her next book, Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey (Norton Young Readers), will be published in September 2022.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $150 Estimated Value of this artwork

Artist: Katie Yamasaki

Material: color pencil

Size: TBD

Framed: No

Katie Yamasaki is a muralist and children's book artist. She has painted over 80 murals around the world that explore issues of identity and social justice.

Katie's children's book work focuses on similar themes of social justice and stories from underrepresented communities. She has written and illustrated several books including Fish for Jimmy (Holiday House, 2013), Dad Bakes (Norton Young Readers, 2021), and When the Cousins Came (Holiday House, 2018). Her next book, Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey (Norton Young Readers), will be published in September 2022.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $150 Estimated Value of this artwork

30 Minute Call with Artist Cátia Chien

Winning bidder will receive a 30-minute phone call with Cátia to discuss anything related to the children's book industry. Bidder could choose to a portfolio consultation, an industry question and answer session, or simply to talk shop.

Cátia Chien is a picture book illustrator of such titles as The Bear and the Moon, which was a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Original Art winner and a Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration winner, A Boy and a Jaguar, an ALA Notable Book and recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award. She is also the founder of A THOUSAND WORLDS - a free curated picture book directory celebrating BIPOC kidlit creators. Her newest book is The Longest Letsgoboy.

Artist: The Fan Brothers

Material: Pencil

Size: 9" x 11.5"

Framed: No

This original illustration was used in The Fan Brothers' book The Darkest Dark, a collaboration with Astronaut Chris Hadfield and Toronto-based writer Kate Fillion.

Brothers Terry Fan and Eric Fan's work is a blend of traditional and contemporary techniques, using ink or graphite mixed with digital. The Night Gardener was their widely acclaimed debut picture book.

*Bidding begins at 40% of the $250 Estimated Value of this artwork

30 Minute Call w/ Agent Sarah Burnes

Winning bidder will receive a 30-minute phone call with Sarah to discuss manuscripts, answer queries about the industry, or workshop ideas.

Sarah began her career on the editorial side of publishing, first at Houghton Mifflin, then in the Knopf Group, and last at Little, Brown. She became an agent in 2001, joining The Gernert Company in 2005. As an editor, she acquired and edited literary fiction and non-fiction, and as an agent, she has added children's fiction to her list. Sarah sits on the board of non-profit progressive publisher the New Press and her writing has appeared on The Paris Review's blog. She lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn.