Kaylani Juanita

Kaylani Juanita’s mission as an artist is to support the stories of the underrepresented and create new ways for people to imagine themselves. Her work has appeared at the Society of Illustrators and the BBC website, and she is the illustrator of the picture books Ta-Da! and winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award for When Aidan Became a Brother. She lives in the Bay Area in California. Look for her online at kaylanijuanita.com and @kaylanijuanita on Twitter and Instagram.

Kaylani Juanita

Kaylani Juanita’s mission as an artist is to support the stories of the underrepresented and create new ways for people to imagine themselves. Her work has appeared at the Society of Illustrators and the BBC website, and she is the illustrator of the picture books Ta-Da! and winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award for When Aidan Became a Brother. She lives in the Bay Area in California. Look for her online at kaylanijuanita.com and @kaylanijuanita on Twitter and Instagram.

Awards

Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

Books by Kaylani Juanita

  • Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

    Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

    Hardback, 2020

    With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.
  • Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

    Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

    Paperback, 2022

    Told by a succession of exuberant young narrators, Magnificent Homespun Brown is a story—a song, a poem, a celebration—about feeling at home in one’s own beloved skin.
  • Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

    Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

    E Book, 2020

    With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.
  • Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity

    Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

    Hardback, 2024

    From the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Coretta Scott King Award Honoree Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a...
  • Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity

    Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

    E Book

    From the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Coretta Scott King Award Honoree Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a...