Jeanette Bradley has been an urban planner, an apprentice pastry chef, and the artist-in-residence for a traveling art museum on a train. Now she writes, draws, and makes books for kids. Her books include Something Great;, No Voice Too Small; No World Too Big; Love, Mama; and When the Babies Came to Stay.  Jeanette is a We Need Diverse Books mentor, and  organizer of the We Are ALL Readers festival celebrating diverse children’s literature. She lives in Rhode Island with her wife, and kids.

​Jeanette is represented by Emily Mitchell of Wernick & Pratt.

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Artist's Statement:
Picture books are meant to be read aloud - to be, in a way, a performance on a very intimate stage. When creating with words or pictures, I am always thinking about the interaction of three art forms: visual art, literature  and theatre.  

I work digitally but want my work to feel fresh, spontaneous, and organic. I want the viewer to have a sense of the human hand that went into the mark making on the virtual page. I work to create characters and stories that express the great diversity of human experience as well as universal themes. 
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Two of my favorite books as a child were Mary Blair’s The Color Kittens and Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel. I still love these books as an adult and re-read them often. My work has been influenced by Mary Blair’s exuberant use of color and Arnold Lobel’s insight into the emotional lives of children. 

More Thoughts:

On Caffeine and Inspiration (Tara's Lazar's Storystorm) 
On the Gift of Lending Libraries (Epic Eighteen)
On My Publication Journey (Cynstations) 

Some Favorites:
SCBWI - See my SCBWI member profile
WNDB - We Need Diverse Books