The Ultimate Children’s Literature Illustrator Gift Guide 2020
What are you going to give, a MasterClass subscription? Come on. Give art.
Recently updated and expanded for the 2020 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 toĀ Debbie Ridpath OhiĀ (who has also posted an excellent list:Ā 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:Ā Winter Bees, Dark Emperor
Arsenault, Isabelle
Books: Colette’s Lost Pet, Albert’s Quiet Quest
Azarian, Mary
Books:Ā Snowflake Bentley, Darwin
B
Bean, Jonathan
Books:Ā Building Our House, Big Snow
Becker, Aaron
Books:Ā Journey, Quest
Berube, Kate
Books: Hannah and Sugar, My Little Half Moon
Biggs, Brian
Books:Ā Everything Goes, Frank Einstein
Blackall, Sophie
Books:Ā The Baby Tree, The Mighty LaLouche
Bowen, Betsy
Books:Ā Tracks in the Wild, A Wild Neighborhood
Boynton, Sandra
Books:Ā Moo, Baa, La La La, The Going to Bed Book
Brown, Calef
Books:Ā Boy Wonders, We Go Together!
Brown, Peter
Books:Ā Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, Creepy Carrots
CĀ
Carle, Eric
Books:Ā The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud
Carlson, Nancy
Books:Ā Sometimes You Barf, First Grade Here I Come!
Castillo, Lauren
Books:Ā Melvin and the Boy, Nana in the City
Charles, Joan
Books:Ā Lost in Lexicon, The Ice Castle
Chrustowski, Rick
Books:Ā Turtle Crossing, Blue Sky Bluebird
Collier, Bryan
Books:Ā Dave the Potter, Rosa
Crittenden, Nina Victor
Books: Chicken Lily
D
DePaola, Tomie
Books:Ā Strega Nona, Jack
Derby, Cindy
Denos, Julia
Books:Ā Dotty, I Had a Favorite Dress
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Faulkner, Matt
Books:Ā Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, Thank You, Sarah
Forshay, Christina
Books:Ā The Really Groovy Story of the Tortoise and the Hare, Goodnight Baseball
Frasier, Debra
Books:Ā On the Day You Were Born
G
Goodale, E. B.
Books: Upcoming
Greenberg, Melanie Hope
H
Hawkes, Kevin
Books:Ā Weslandia, Library Lion
Hendrix, John
Books:Ā Shooting at the Stars, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
Hocking, Deborah
Books: Henry Hoppendower
Holmes, Ekua
Books: Voice of Freedom
I
Idle, Molly
Books:Ā Flora and the Flamingo, Tea Rex
Ipcar, Dahlov
Books:Ā The Wonderful Egg, I Like Animals
J
Oliver Jeffers
Books:Ā Stuck, The Incredible Book-Eating Boy
K
Klassen, Jon
Books:Ā This Is Not My Hat, I Want My Hat Back
Krommes, Beth
Books:Ā Blue on Blue, The House in the Night
L
Lin, Grace
Books:Ā Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Starry River of the Sky
Leung, Hilary
Books:Ā Ninja, Cowboy, Bear
Live in a StoryĀ
Artists:Ā Arree Chung, Brian Won, Jannie Ho
M
MacKay, Elly
Books: Red Sky at Night, Maya
Magoon, Scott
Books: Chopsticks, The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House
Martin, Emily Winfield
Books:Ā Dream Animals
McGehee, Claudia
Books:Ā A Woodland Counting Book
Minor, Wendell
Books:Ā Sequoia, GalĆ”pagos George
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Nelson, Kadir
Books:Ā We Are the Ship, Baby Bear
Norton, Maeve
Books: Various covers
O
OHora, Zachariah
Books:Ā No Fits, Nilson!, Stop Snoring, Bernard!
P
Perry, Gina
Books: It’s Great Being a Dad
Pizzoli, Greg
Books:Ā The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam
Popovici, Danny
Potter, Giselle
Books: This Is My Dollhouse, The Boy Who Loved Words
Q
Sean Qualls
Books: The Case for Loving, Why Am I Me?
R
Raff, Anna
Books:Ā World Rat Day
Ransome, James
Books:Ā Sky Boys, This is the Rope
Robinson, Christian
Books:Ā Rain!, Last Stop on Market Street
Roman, Dave
Books:Ā Astronaut Academy
S
Shea, Bob
Books: Ballet Cat, Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
Stead, Philip & Erin
Books:Ā A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Bear Has a Story to Tell
Stoop, Naoko
Books:Ā Red Knit Cap Girl, Red Knit Cap Girl to the Rescue
Strickland, Shadra
Books: Bird, White Water
Sur ton mur
Illustrators:Ā Isabelle Arsenault, Matt Forsythe, Elise Gravel & many more
Swarner, Kristina
Books:Ā Good People Everywhere, The Mitten String
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Tavares, Matt
Books:Ā Mudball, Becoming Babe Ruth
Telgemeier, Raina
Books:Ā Smile, Sisters
V
Van Dusen, Chris
Books:Ā Circus Ship, If I Built a Car
W
Wahl, Phoebe
Books: Sonya’s Chickens
White, Lee
Books:Ā Ducks Don’t Wear Socks, Sophie’s Fish
Wohnoutka, Mike
Books:Ā Jack’s House, Moo
Wright, Johanna
Books:Ā Orchestra Pit, Bunnies on Ice
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Yoo, Taeeun
Books:Ā Only a Witch Can Fly, The Little Red Fish
Young, Timothy
Books: The Angry Little Puffin, I Hate Picture Books!
Z
Zagarenski, Pamela
Books: Henry & Leo
Zahares, Wade
Books:Ā Pony Island, Lucky Jake
Zollars, Jamie
Books:Ā 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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Julie Danielson says
Was ooh’ing and aah’ing yesterday over Cindy Derby’s shop: https://www.cindyderby.com/store.
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic says
YES! I bought several prints from Cindy this year.
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic says
Love this list. Here’s more to add:
Nidhi Chanani https://everydayloveart.com/
Isabella Kung https://www.etsy.com/shop/IsabellaKung
Vashti Harrison (she made her own holiday wrapping paper this year, too!) https://society6.com/vashtiharrison?sort=new
Susie Ghahremani: https://shop.boygirlparty.com/
T.S Spookytooth says
Could I add myself here as a published illustrator selling prints? tsspookytooth.bigcartel.com
Deborah Foster says
Sadly, the link for the Tomie dePaola site isn’t working. š
Deborah Foster says
I think it is tomie.com instead.
M Young says
Matthew Cordell has an Etsy storefront: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MatthewCordellArt
Cynthia Leitich Smith says
A few Indigenous children’s book illustrators with online shops:
Weshoyot Alvitre: https://www.weshoyot.com/
Michaela Goade: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MichaelaGoade
Nasu?raq Rainey Hopson https://www.etsy.com/shop/SalmonberryDreams
MaryBeth Timothy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MoonHawkArt
Travis Jonker says
Thanks, Cynthia!