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April 17, 2018 by Travis Jonker

The State of Photographic Illustration in 2018

April 17, 2018 by Travis Jonker   4 comments

Maybe someday a book with primarily photographic illustrations will win the Caldecott Medal.

Until that day, I’m going to annually post all the fiction picture books I see that use photography.

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There are plenty of nonfiction books that use photographs. What I’m sharing in this post is fiction that uses photos.

Do you know of a fiction children’s book that uses photography that I missed? Let me know in the comments.

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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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  1. Fuse #8 says

    April 17, 2018 at 10:05 am

    The Nina Crews picture book of Richard Wright poetry! It’s SEEING INTO TOMORROW. And let’s not forget the jaw-dropping THIS IS MY EYE by Neela Vaswani. One of my true favorites of 2018.

  2. Laurie says

    April 17, 2018 at 8:04 pm

    I read a book at work (public library) today called “Waiting for Goliath” by Antje Damm. I found the photographic illustrations very interesting and saved the book to display at my next children’s program. I think the artwork could be used to inspire children to create their own stories using the same technique. (2017) Upon investigation I see she has a title, “The Visitor” coming out in August as well. Same style.

  3. H. Geddes says

    April 18, 2018 at 9:23 am

    I think you really need to add “Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy” by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick to this list! The photographs of the wildlife are amazing!

  4. Julie says

    April 19, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    Claymates by Dev Petty and Lauren Eldridge was deeply loved by my students at this year! It won our mock Caldecott!

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