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Illustration: Illustated Children's Books

A subject guide for the School of Illustration

Books on Illustrated Children's Books

Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling by Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles
Call Number: NC965 .S2352 2012
Publication Date: 2012
The Encyclopedia of Writing and Illustrating Children's Books by Desdemona McCannon, Sue Thornton, Yadzia Williams
Call Number: PN147.5 .M39 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Illustrated Children's Books by Black Dog Publishing Staff
Call Number: PN1009.A1 I54 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Little Big Books: Illustrations for Children's Picture Books by R. Klanten, H. Hellige
Call Number: NC965 .L58 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Play Pen: New Children's Book Illustration by Martin Salisbury
Call Number: NC965 .S23 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators by Leonard S. Marcus
Call Number: NC965 .S56 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Tolkien Treasures by Catherine McIlwaine
Call Number: PR6039.O32 Z6956 2018
Publication Date: 2019
Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book by Leonard M. Marcus
Call Number: NC965 .M345 2002
Publication Date: 2002

Illustrated Children's Books

The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
Call Number: PZ7.S23817 Adv 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Call Number: PZ8.3.S4504 Bl 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Call Number: PS3613.O68 Z46 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall
Call Number: PZ7.1.M38 Fin 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
Call Number: PZ7.B5319 Hel 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo
Call Number: PZ7.C2687 Nan 2014
Publication Date: 2014
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock, Mary GrandPré
Call Number: PZ9.R67 No 2014
Publication Date: 2014
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant, Melissa Sweet
Call Number: PZ9.B7 Rig 2014
Publication Date: 2014
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS3601.L35388 U53 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales, Tim O'Meara
Call Number: PZ7.M673 .Vi 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh Storybook by Darlene Geis (editor)
Call Number: NC1766.U52 D55 W56 1989
Publication Date: 1989

Ebooks on Illustrated Children's Books

Writing Picture Books e-book] : a hands-on guide from story creation to publication by Ann Whitford Paul
Call Number: PN147.5 .P385 2018eb
Publication Date: 2018

Books on Randolph Caldecott and the Caldecott Award

Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures by Maurice Sendak
Call Number: PS3569.E6 A16 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Randolph Caldecott, Lord of the Nursery by Rodney K. Engen
Call Number: N6797.C28 E53 1976
Publication Date: 1976
The Randolph Caldecott Treasury by Elizabeth T. Billington, Maurice Sendak
Call Number: NC978.5.C3 A4 1978
Publication Date: 1978
Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books: A Guide to the Illustrations by Gail D. Nordstrom; Heidi K. Hammond
Call Number: Z1037.A2 H36 2014
Publication Date: 2014

Caldecott Medal Winners

List of Caldecott Medal Winners
List of the Caldecott Medal winners from 1938-2023. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The Academy of Art Library has all 81 award winning titles in our collection. Come by and check them out!

PDFs of Randolph Caldecott's Books

Some of Randolph Caldecott's children's books are available to download as PDFs from the Internet Archive.