The Ultimate Children’s Book Illustrator Gift Guide 2024
What are you going to give, another fancy water bottle? Come on. Give art.
Updated for the 2024 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
B
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
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
Crittenden, Nina Victor
Books: Chicken Lily
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Derby, Cindy
Books: Outside In, How to Walk an Ant
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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
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
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
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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
L
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
O
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?
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
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
T
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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Z
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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Brandi Fong says
Grace Lin has an online shop! https://gracelinshoppe.bigcartel.com/