The Ultimate Children’s Literature Illustrator Gift Guide 2017
What are you going to give, a Coleggtible? Come on. Give art.
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Recently updated and expanded for the 2017 gift-giving season, here is my collection of children’s literature illustrator shops on the world wide web.
This isn’t a comprehensive list – let me hear about what I missed in the comments.
(Many thanks to Debbie Ridpath Ohi (who has also posted an excellent list: click here to see it) for her help with this post.)
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American Library Association Store
Artists: Ezra Jack Keats, Marla Frazee, Doreen Cronin, and many 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
Berube, Kate
Books: Hannah and Sugar, My Little Half Moon
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
Crittenden, Nina Victor
Books: Chicken Lily
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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
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Goodale, E. B.
Books: Upcoming
Greenberg, Melanie Hope
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Hawkes, Kevin
Books: Weslandia, Library Lion
Hendrix, John
Books: Shooting at the Stars, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
Hocking, Deborah
Books: Henry Hoppendower
Holmes, Ekua
Books: Voice of 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, Jon
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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Magoon, Scott
Books: Chopsticks, The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House
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
Norton, Maeve
Books: Various covers
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OHora, Zachariah
Books: No Fits, Nilson!, Stop Snoring, Bernard!
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Perry, Gina
Books: It’s Great Being a Dad
Pizzoli, Greg
Books: The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam
Popovici, Danny
Potter, Giselle
Books: This Is My Dollhouse, The Boy Who Loved Words
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Sean Qualls
Books: The Case for Loving, Why Am I Me?
R
Raff, Anna
Books: World Rat Day
Ransome, James
Books: Sky Boys, This is the Rope
Robinson, Christian
Books: Rain!, Last Stop on Market Street
Roman, Dave
Books: Astronaut Academy
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Shea, Bob
Books: Ballet Cat, Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
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
Strickland, Shadra
Books: Bird, White Water
Sur ton mur
Illustrators: Isabelle Arsenault, Matt Forsythe, Elise Gravel & many more
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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Wahl, Phoebe
Books: Sonya’s Chickens
White, Lee
Books: Ducks Don’t Wear Socks, Sophie’s Fish
Wohnoutka, Mike
Books: Jack’s House, Moo
Wright, Johanna
Books: Orchestra Pit, Bunnies on Ice
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Yoo, Taeeun
Books: Only a Witch Can Fly, The Little Red Fish
Young, Timothy
Books: The Angry Little Puffin, I Hate Picture Books!
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Zagarenski, Pamela
Books: Henry & Leo
Zahares, Wade
Books: Pony Island, Lucky Jake
Zollars, Jamie
Books: Not in Room 204, Inside the Slidy Diner
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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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Thank you!
Hi,
Not sure about the popularity of these illustrators from Quebec in the States (I know that you talked about Elise Gravel at least once…) but Sur ton mur is a great place to find prints and original works: https://en.surtonmur.com/
This site is awesome! I added it to the list.
Might you add me & Sean Qualls to this illustrious list?
Happy to!
I found Sean’s shop and added it – if you can share the address to yours I’m happy to add, Selina. Thanks!
This is a fantastic list! I had no idea that these were out there! Thank you Travis!
Great list! Would love to see Steve Light on the list too.
I would LOVE to be on this list.
Hi Steve! I’d be happy to add you – I can’t seem to find your shop on your website. If you can leave the link, I’ll add you to the list!
Thanks for including Lee White Illustration! He’s got some more current books out right now, including “Love, Santa” and “Emma And The Whale” : ) Love your website, cheers!