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December 6, 2022 by Travis Jonker

The Ultimate Children’s Book Illustrator Gift Guide 2022

December 6, 2022 by Travis Jonker   1 comments

What are you going to give, a car with a giant bow on top? Come on. Give art.

Updated for the 2022 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

 

Biggs, Brian

Books: Everything Goes, Frank Einstein

Blackall, Sophie

Books: Farmhouse, Finding Winnie, Hello Lighthouse

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

Castillo, Lauren

Books: Melvin and the Boy, Nana in the City

Cordell, Matthew

Books: Wolf In the Snow, Wish

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Crittenden, Nina Victor

Books: Chicken Lily

D

Derby, Cindy

Books: Outside In, How to Walk an Ant

F

Faulkner, Matt

Books: Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, Thank You, Sarah

Frasier, Debra

Books: On the Day You Were Born

G

Gallery Nucleus

Artists: Jon Klassen, Brigette Barrager, Christian Robinson, etc.

Goade, Michaela

Books: We Are Water Protectors, Berry Song

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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: Sydney & Taylor, Max Explains Everything

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Holmes, Ekua

Books: Voice of Freedom

I

Idle, Molly

Books: Flora and the Flamingo, Tea Rex

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

Krosoczka, Jarrett J.

Books: Lunch Lady, Punk Farm

L

Leung, Hilary

Books: Ninja, Cowboy, Bear

M

MacKay, Elly

Books: Red Sky at Night, Maya

Scott Magoon

Magoon, Scott

Books: Chopsticks, The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House

McGehee, Claudia

Books: A Woodland Counting Book

Minor, Wendell

Books: Sequoia, Galápagos George

N

Nelson, Kadir

Books: We Are the Ship, Baby Bear

O

OHora, Zachariah

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

P

Gina Perry

Perry, Gina

Books: It’s Great Being a Dad

Giselle Potter

Potter, Giselle

Books: This Is My Dollhouse, The Boy Who Loved Words

Q

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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

S

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Shea, Bob

Books: Ballet Cat, Dinosaur vs. Bedtime

Stead, Erin

Books: A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Bear Has a Story to Tell

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

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

Wright, Johanna

Books: Orchestra Pit, Bunnies on Ice

Y

Z

Zagarenski

Zagarenski, Pamela

Books: Henry & Leo

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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. Shadra Strickland says

    December 10, 2022 at 7:59 am

    How generous~ Thank you!

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