The Ultimate Children’s Literature Illustrator Gift Guide
There are lots of children’s book illustrators who sell their work online, but I’ve never seen a good place to browse a whole slew of them in one sitting (although this post over at Pink Me has a batch). Since I’m posting my annual Librarian Lump of Coal Gift Guide soon, I thought it would be nice to put together a guide that people could actually use. Basically, it’s a feeble attempt to tip the Karma scales back in my favor, while alerting you to some cool gift ideas.
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Many thanks to Debbie Ridpath Ohi (who has also posted an excellent list: click here to see it) for her help with this post. Oh, and this isn’t a comprehensive list – let me hear about what I missed in the comments.
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American Library Association Store
Artists: Ezra Jack Keats, Marla Frazee, Doreen Cronin, and many more
Allen, Rick
Books: Winter Bees, Dark Emperor
Azarian, Mary
Books: Snowflake Bentley, Darwin
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Bean, Jonathan
Books: Building Our House, Big Snow
Becker, Aaron
Books: Journey, Quest
Biggs, Brian
Books: Everything Goes, Frank Einstein
Blackall, Sophie
Books: The Baby Tree, The Mighty LaLouche
Bowen, Betsy
Books: Tracks in the Wild, A Wild Neighborhood
Boynton, Sandra
Books: Moo, Baa, La La La, The Going to Bed Book
Brown, Calef
Books: Boy Wonders, We Go Together!
Brown, Peter
Books: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, Creepy Carrots
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Carle, Eric
Books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud
Carlson, Nancy
Books: Sometimes You Barf, First Grade Here I Come!
Castillo, Lauren
Books: Melvin and the Boy, Nana in the City
Charles, Joan
Books: Lost in Lexicon, The Ice Castle
Chrustowski, Rick
Books: Turtle Crossing, Blue Sky Bluebird
Collier, Bryan
Books: Dave the Potter, Rosa
D
DePaola, Tomie
Books: Strega Nona, Jack
Denos, Julia
Books: Dotty, I Had a Favorite Dress
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Faulkner, Matt
Books: Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, Thank You, Sarah
Forshay, Christina
Books: The Really Groovy Story of the Tortoise and the Hare, Goodnight Baseball
Frasier, Debra
Books: On the Day You Were Born
H
Hawkes, Kevin
Books: Weslandia, Library Lion
Hendrix, John
Books: Shooting at the Stars, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
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Idle, Molly
Books: Flora and the Flamingo, Tea Rex
Ipcar, Dahlov
Books: The Wonderful Egg, I Like Animals
J
Oliver Jeffers
Books: Stuck, The Incredible Book-Eating Boy
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Klassen, John
Books: This Is Not My Hat, I Want My Hat Back
Krommes, Beth
Books: Blue on Blue, The House in the Night
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Lin, Grace
Books: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Starry River of the Sky
Leung, Hilary
Books: Ninja, Cowboy, Bear
Live in a Story
Artists: Arree Chung, Brian Won, Jannie Ho
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Martin, Emily Winfield
Books: Dream Animals
McGehee, Claudia
Books: A Woodland Counting Book
Minor, Wendell
Books: Sequoia, Galápagos George
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Nelson, Kadir
Books: We Are the Ship, Baby Bear
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OHora, Zachariah
Books: No Fits, Nilson!, Stop Snoring, Bernard!
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Pizzoli, Greg
Books: The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam
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Raff, Anna
Books: World Rat Day
Ransome, James
Books: Sky Boys, This is the Rope
Robinson, Christian
Books: Rain!, Gaston
Roman, Dave
Books: Astronaut Academy
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Stead, Philip & Erin
Books: A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Bear Has a Story to Tell
Stoop, Naoko
Books: Red Knit Cap Girl, Red Knit Cap Girl to the Rescue
Swarmer, Kristina
Books: Good People Everywhere, The Mitten String
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Tavares, Matt
Books: Mudball, Becoming Babe Ruth
Telgemeier, Raina
Books: Smile, Sisters
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Van Dusen, Chris
Books: Circus Ship, If I Built a Car
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White, Lee
Books: Ducks Don’t Wear Socks, Sophie’s Fish
Wohnoutka, Mike
Books: Jack’s House, Moo
Johanna Wright
Books: Orchestra Pit, Bunnies on Ice
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Yoo, Taeeun
Books: Only a Witch Can Fly, The Little Red Fish
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Zahares, Wade
Books: Pony Island, Lucky Jake
Zollars, Jamie
Books: Not in Room 204, Inside the Slidy Diner
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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John Hendrix gets me to where I need to be. http://store.johnhendrix.com/category/prints-posters
Klassen: http://www.gallerynucleus.com/artist/jon_klassen
Unshelved.com has some nifty posters.
And the ALA store is currently at rock star status http://www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=234
Thanks, Mike! I updated the post to add these.
Great idea to pull this list together! I know of these in addition:
Nancy Carlson http://www.postersonboard.net/nancy-carlson-prints/
Debra Frasier http://www.debrafrasier.com/pages/bookstore/index.php
James Ransom http://www.jamesransome.com/for_sale_post.html
Mike Wohnoutka http://www.mikewohnoutka.com/pages/prints/1print.html
Hi! This is a fun list. Here’s one more. It has prints from illustrations from my picture books. As you can see, I love nature!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ricksstudio?ref=pr_profile
Thanks,
Rick Chrustowski
GREAT resource! Thank you for compiling all of these websites. It’s something I’ve looked for in the past, and something I plan to use in the future!
Here’s a couple more:
Mary Azarian: http://www.maryazarian.com/products.html
Bryan Collier: http://www.bryancollier.com/gallery.php
Thanks much for the list….Carolyn
And, Tomie dePaola: http://www.tomie.com/resources/index.html
Thanks! Also: Anna Raff (illustrator of World Rat Day) has some wonderful gifts at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/annaraff
This is awesome.
Chris Van Dusen sells online: http://www.chrisvandusen.com/prints
The marvelous Betsy Bowen!
http://woodcut.com/
Wendell Minor is amazing. Beautiful glimpse at our world!
http://www.minorart.com
These Maine Illustrators would be great additions to this post:
Dahlov Ipcar: http://www.exitfive.com/dahlov/prints.html
Kevin Hawkes: http://www.kevinhawkes.com/home.htm
Wade Zahares: http://www.zahares.com
Matt Travares: http://www.matttavares.com/shop.html (scroll down for prints)
Thanks for sharing all these links I didn’t include! Once I get a chance, I’ll add them to the post.
This is great! Thanks for compiling the list, Travis!
This is great! Thanks!
Great idea, Greg! Thank you!
I have an Anna Raff. LOVE. IT. It feels very NYC to have rat art.
FYI: Blackall, Castillo and Pizzoli all donated art to save our little diverse public school’s library a few years back, and I hope everyone will support them for being mensches. Other artists who pitched in with donations of their work to The Neighborhood School Save-the-Library auction AND who have sites I could find where they sell work: Calef Brown (https://www.etsy.com/shop/CalefBrown), Maira Kalman (http://www.saulgallery.com/artists/maira-kalman/limited-prints), Beth Krommes (http://www.bethkrommes.com/wood-engraving), Kristina Swarner (https://www.etsy.com/shop/Kristina14?ref=pr_shop_more), Raina Telgemeier (http://goraina.com/store.html), Dave Roman (http://yaytime.com/store/), and Jaime Zollars (https://www.etsy.com/shop/jaimezollars).
Great idea, Travis!
Wendell Minor prints: http://www.minorart.com/paypal.html
All images from his children’s picture books (including those not
seen on the website) are available upon request.
Hi! Thanks so much for compiling this list, it’s great to see all the awesome work out there! And thanks for including Lee White (my hubbie!) Here’s a couple more children’s book artists to add to the list: Johanna Wright (www.etsy.com/shop/johannawright) and David Hohn (http://www.davidhohn.com/). Thanks again! Lisa
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Great post, it is always interesting to discover new styles of illustrations!
gaaaah, i am aware that your name is Travis! i was thinking OOH OOH ADD GREG PIZZOLI OOH OOH ADD GREG PIZZOLI. brain fart. i’m sorry!
No prob!
Great list.
Rather cheekily…HERE IS MY ETSY SHOP….https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JaneCabreraArt
Thank you
Jane Cabrera