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Author, Illustrator, Artist

Traci Van Wagoner

Children's Book Illustration
Board Books, Picture books, Chapter Books

Nature in the city

Morning, Mourning Doves interior spread showing the male and female mourning doves creating their nest in the girl's window in the city.

Morning, Mourning Doves interior spread showing the girl and her mom reading while the male mourning dove takes care of the eggs through the rain. He flies away at night when mama flies in to take her turn.

Two long illustrations showing beluga whale hunting a school of fish through chunks of ice on top. Bottom shows Baby Beluga breathing at an ice hole with a whipping wind blowing away the spout.

Picture book spread. Left a young hunter feeding a baby beluga whale who is trapped in a small breathing hole. Right side shows the boy and his father peering out of their tent at a spotter plane flying through the northern lights.

A young hunter and his father call to the belugas to follow the icebreaker who came to free them and lead them to open water. Musical lines and notes flow across the page and around Mama and Baby Beluga

A little girl sits alone on a teeter totter in a grassy park with an city skyline in the background.

A ballerina hippo on the loose bouncing into all the other little girl ballerinas

Young mermaid and crab friend in a lighthearted whimsical style of splatter paint

A family leaves the city on a bendy highway that runs over the river and through the woods and out to the wilds where grandma and grandpa live

Colorful art of a boat with four kids and a dog sailing along a river through reds oranges and yellows toward a castle in a sunset sky with a red dragon circling above

Dragon on a cliff with two girls and a boy looking at her in the background

Splattery art with fun pirate characters in a whimsical style

Fairy Tale art with a twist. Instead of a wolf, Little Red Riding Hood comes face to face with a large yellow and green sinuous dragon.

a red dragon and a young woman sip tea at a tall table in a splatter paint style

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