The Ultimate Children’s Literature Illustrator Gift Guide 2019
What are you going to give, counterfeit Air Pods? Come on. Give art.
Recently updated and expanded for the 2019 gift-giving season, here is my collection of children’s literature illustrator shops on the world wide web.
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This isn’t a comprehensive list – let me hear about what I missed in the comments, and I will add to it.
(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
Arsenault, Isabelle
Books: Colette’s Lost Pet, Albert’s Quiet Quest
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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MacKay, Elly
Books: Red Sky at Night, Maya
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?
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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
Swarner, 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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I love this list! Thanks for sharing.
Elly MacKay, author/illustrator of a variety of picture books, has a beautiful Etsy shop! https://www.etsy.com/shop/theaterclouds
Thank you! I added her in.
Love this list! But it’s Kristina Swarner, not Swarmer.
Thank you – fixed it!
Some links are dead. Otherwise great ideas for gifts!
Isabelle Arsenault prints can be found here: https://en.surtonmur.com/collections/isabelle-arsenault
Added! Thanks!
Two of the greatest children’s illustrators: PJ Lynch and Jerry Pinkney. The detail in their work exquisite.