For book inquiries, please contact:
Marcia Wernick at Wernick & Pratt Agency
For all other inquiries: anna[at]annaraff.com

Anna Raff is an award-winning illustrator of many books for children including WORLD RAT DAY, IF I WERE A KANGAROO, YOU MAKE ME SNEEZE!, and the forthcoming PARTY ANIMALS—due out in Spring 2025. Her book THE DAY THE UNIVERSE EXPLODED MY HEAD was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and New York Public Library Best Book. Anna’s science picture book collaboration with author David A. Adler has garnered rave reviews from children and educators alike.

Before her career as an illustrator, she was a designer and art director at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and several children’s book publishers. Anna is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Program and Illustration Summer Residency. She has an MFA from SVA, a BA from Connecticut College and lives in New York City, where there are reportedly five rats per human resident.

AWARDS
The Original Art, Society of Illustrators
American Illustration
3x3 Magazine
Creative Quarterly
Print Magazine "Hand Drawn"
CMYK Magazine "Top 100 New Creatives"
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

CLIENTS INCLUDE
Candlewick Press
Disney-Hyperion
The New York Times
Astra Books for Young Readers
Holiday House
Putnam Books for Young Readers
Viking Children’s Books
Scholastic, Inc.
Highlights Foundation
Manovill Records
Washington Post
Cricket Media
Ranger Rick Cub Magazine
Boyd Mills Press
Time Out New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ask Magazine
Group Health, Seattle
Vertiam, Inc.
Kiwi Magazine
University of Maryland