What are you going to give, a candle? Come on. Give art.

Updated for the 2023 gift-giving season, here is my collection of children’s literature illustrator shops on the world wide web.

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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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, Peter

Books: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, Creepy Carrots

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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

Crittenden, Nina Victor

Books: Chicken Lily

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Derby, Cindy

Books: Outside In, How to Walk an Ant

F

Faulkner, Matt

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

G

Gallery Nucleus

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

Goade, Michaela

Books: We Are Water Protectors, Berry Song

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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: Sydney & Taylor, Max Explains Everything

Holmes, Ekua

Books: Voice of Freedom

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Idle, Molly

Books: Flora and the Flamingo, Tea Rex

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

Krosoczka, Jarrett J.

Books: Lunch Lady, Punk Farm

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Leung, Hilary

Books: Ninja, Cowboy, Bear

M

MacKay, Elly

Books: Red Sky at Night, Maya

Magoon, Scott

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

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

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OHora, Zachariah

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

P

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

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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

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

V

Van Dusen, Chris

Books: Circus Ship, If I Built a Car

W

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

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Zagarenski, Pamela

Books: Henry & Leo

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