Brooke Baum

@brookebaum.bsky.social

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🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee 🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator 📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian 😴 Current tired mom 🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties brookebaum.com

A 3 panel comic: 1) a cd player playing opening notes of Eye of the Tiger, 2) A bunch of textbooks and study materials, 3) a 12 year old girl looking determined!
A three panel comic of a bird looking for worms and saying “Nothing!”
Illustration of a doglike dragon flying above a backyard fence, will a voice yelling “Down Boy!”
Bigfoot with a cup of coffee and underwear, saying “do you mind?” To the person recording him
A kidlit postcard of a young red-haired girl playing in the rain. She isn’t using her umbrella and she is splashing in a puddle and trying to catch raindrops on her tongue. It reads: Brooke Bau, rep’d by Marissa Brown at Pipping Properties
Comic by Brooke Baum. Panel 1: I fall down stairs Panel 2: Daughter: “Mama, can I have a snack?” Me: “Please get your dad.” Panel 3: “Honey?” “Oh, thank…” “Have you seen my keys?” Panel 4: I am a skeleton, holding the keys
“I am incredibly passionate about the importance of humor in children’s literature. Humor is not frivolous; humor is a shared joy in being human and the absurdity of life. I write for the goofy kids, the class clowns, the troublemakers with hearts of gold. But I also write for the kids who are going through a hard time and might need an escape or just need the healing that comes with a good belly laugh.”
A gif from Fantastic Mr. Fox
Boyds Mills Paula Cohen Scholarship for Picture Book Creators badge
A young Latina girl in a yellow sweater and pink scarf and hat enjoys a cool winter breeze
A bear and a rabbit read together
An illustration of six middle school aged children in a year book. The page has been doodled on
Illustration of Alysa Liu figure skating
A colorful, graphic illustration of flowers
Pink blobs turned into doodles
Blue blob shapes. Black ink added to turn them into characters
Diverse children saying Happy Friendship Day
9PM: Project Runway and bed
8PM We’re all sick of this, but too bad
6PM putting Bea to bed
5PM BORED
4PM texting with Julia
3PM hanging with Bea and Brandon is cooking
2PM lunch!
1PM got ears pierced
12PM driving downtown
11AM, working at coffee shop and running into friend
10AM meet with my friend Rachel
9AM walk to coffee shop
Hourly Comics Day 2026: 8AM waking up late, reading to my daughter, coffee
A digital illustration of Big Foot, as seen through a video camera, in his underwear and saying “Do you MIND?”
An illustration of a giant pink octopus overlayed on a real photograph of the Eifle Tower.
A graphic protest poster of a red groundhog in sunglasses saying “Spring is coming early.” The poster reads “Melt Ice”
An illustration of four diverse children standing together and holding paper hearts. The color palette is orange, pink, and dark pink. It reads: “Friendship Day”
Pat Sajak screaming in Chaz’s face
Terrifying cartoon depiction of Pat Sajak
Illustration of a young brown-skinned girl in a yellow sweater, a pink scarf, and a pink beanie. She’s wearing yellow glasses and her hair and scarf are blowing in the wind as a cool winter breeze gently blows around her. She looks like she enjoys soaking up winter.
A slightly sinister girl in Christmas pjs opens a gift, which is glowing. It reads “Now rep’d by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties”
Picture of Scratch and Sketch book
Dressed as Pigeon and Duckling
An assortment of QUACKEN stickers
Cover of IT'S HALLOWEEN by Jack Prelutsky and pictures by Marylin Hafner
Cover of THE GHOST-EYE TREE by Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault and Illustrated by Ted Rand
Dummy sketches of a squirrel losing her mind
Cover of ZOMBEES
A witch knitting a scarf while her cat shreds it behind her.
Witches flying around the moon
Image of children in eerie Halloween costumes
Dog in birthday hate eyeing cake