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December 5, 2019 by Travis Jonker

The Ultimate Children’s Literature Illustrator Gift Guide 2019

December 5, 2019 by Travis Jonker   8 comments

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.)

A

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

B

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

C 

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

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Crittenden, Nina Victor

Books: Chicken Lily

D

DePaola, Tomie

Books: Strega Nona, Jack

Denos, Julia

Books: Dotty, I Had a Favorite Dress

F

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

G

Goodale, E. B.

Books: Upcoming

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Greenberg, Melanie Hope

H

Hawkes, Kevin

Books: Weslandia, Library Lion

Hendrix, John

Books: Shooting at the Stars, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom

Hocking, Deborah

Books: Henry Hoppendower

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Holmes, Ekua

Books: Voice of Freedom

I

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

K

Klassen, Jon

Books: This Is Not My Hat, I Want My Hat Back

Krommes, Beth

Books: Blue on Blue, The House in the Night

L

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

M

MacKay, Elly

Books: Red Sky at Night, Maya

Scott Magoon

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

N

Nelson, Kadir

Books: We Are the Ship, Baby Bear

Norton, Maeve

Books: Various covers

O

OHora, Zachariah

Books: No Fits, Nilson!, Stop Snoring, Bernard!

P

Gina Perry

Perry, Gina

Books: It’s Great Being a Dad

Pizzoli, Greg

Books: The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam

Popovici, Danny

Giselle Potter

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

Shadra Strickland

Strickland, Shadra

Books: Bird, White Water

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Sur ton mur

Illustrators: Isabelle Arsenault, Matt Forsythe, Elise Gravel & many more

Swarner, Kristina

Books: Good People Everywhere, The Mitten String

T

Tavares, Matt

Books: Mudball, Becoming Babe Ruth

Telgemeier, Raina

Books: Smile, Sisters

V

Van Dusen, Chris

Books: Circus Ship, If I Built a Car

W

Phoebe Wahl

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

Y

Yoo, Taeeun

Books: Only a Witch Can Fly, The Little Red Fish

Young

Young, Timothy

Books: The Angry Little Puffin, I Hate Picture Books!

Z

Zagarenski

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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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. Kary H. says

    December 5, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    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

    • Travis Jonker says

      December 5, 2019 at 8:25 pm

      Thank you! I added her in.

  2. marjorie says

    December 5, 2019 at 1:51 pm

    Love this list! But it’s Kristina Swarner, not Swarmer.

    • Travis Jonker says

      December 5, 2019 at 8:19 pm

      Thank you – fixed it!

  3. roxanne spencer says

    December 5, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    Some links are dead. Otherwise great ideas for gifts!

  4. Allison says

    December 5, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    Isabelle Arsenault prints can be found here: https://en.surtonmur.com/collections/isabelle-arsenault

    • Travis Jonker says

      December 5, 2019 at 8:29 pm

      Added! Thanks!

  5. DOROTHY SCANLAN says

    December 6, 2019 at 8:35 am

    Two of the greatest children’s illustrators: PJ Lynch and Jerry Pinkney. The detail in their work exquisite.

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