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Jana Christy

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Jana loves the children's book art form. Very early on she fell in love with the work of Golden Book artists, such as Tibor Gergely, Alice and Martin Provensen, JP Miller and Mary Blair. Her early adulthood was spent traveling and working as a nanny, which reintroduced her to the art and ignited her desire to pursue illustration as a career.

After getting her start in independent comix in the 90’s, she worked as a Boston based illustrator. Her artwork appeared in a number of publications, including The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Herald. Jana is ecstatic that she now spends the majority of her time creating illustrations for children’s books and magazines. She’s living in the resuscitated old mill town of North Adams, in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts with her husband/creative partner, John Seven and their homeschooled freerange rockstar sons, Harry and Hugo. When she’s not working, she spends her time trying to master the accordion, kayaking, ripping all the grass out of her yard, and eating as much cheese as she can get her hands on.

Other than casting permanently adrift in a windpoweredsteampunk houseboat with an endless supply of cake and pencils, and creating about a billion more books, she’s pretty much achieved everything she’s always wanted. She’s psyched.

Her clients include; Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, Harcourt, Marshall Cavendish, Andrews McMeel, Scholastic, Babybug Magazine, Highlights Magazine, Highlights High Five, Reader’s Digest, Carnival Cruise, The Boston Globe among many others.

You can reach jana either through her agent, Shannon Associates, by email or by filling out the form below. She'd love to hear from you!

Published books include:
• Ten Items or Less, by Stephanie Calmenson, published by Simon and Schuster
• Happy, Sad, Silly Mad, by John E Mitchell published by Andrews McMeel
• In Your Dreams, by Leslie Jonath, published by Andrews McMeel
• The Smile That Went Around The World, by Patrice Karst, published by Devorss
• My Last Best Friend, by Julie Bowe, published by Harcourt
• My New Best Friend, by Julie Bowe, published by Harcourt
• My Best Frenemy, by Julie Bowe, published by Penguin
• Celebrate! Your Amazing Achievements! by Joanne Barkan, published by Readers Digest
• Play Fair, Have Fun! by Tisha Hamilton, published by Readers Digest
• We Love The Seaside, by Kate Tym, published by QED
• Four Go Mad in Massachusetts, by John E Mitchell, published by Commonwealth Editions

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Jana Christy

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Books from Jana Christy

In a Blink

From the Mist

Wedding Wings

The Woods Beyond

A Pinch of Magic

The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

When the Snow Falls

Never Girls #13: Under the Lagoon

In the Game

And Then Comes Christmas

A Rule Is to Break: A Child's Guide to Anarchy

Frankie Liked to Sing

Happy Punks 1 2 3: A Counting Story

The Ocean Story

Room for the Baby

The Smile That Went Around the World

Happy, Sad, Silly, Mad

Happy, Sad, Silly, Mad: My World Makes Me Feel

In Your Dreams

Finding Tinker Bell #6: The Last Journey (Disney: The Never Girls)