As a writer, you will only need an illustrator if you are self-publishing. Publishing houses
prefer to handle book illustration themselves.
If you are self-publishing, keep in mind that children's book illustrators are responsible
for visually enhancing your story - and ultimately their graphics will "sell" your book.
If the cover and interior illustrations don’t visually attract the child or parent, the book
remains unread!
That said, our listing of children's book illustrators is only a small sampling of the available
talent - and it is not an endorsement of those listed, but rather an informational listing - or at least
a place to start.
Frances (Panch) Alcaraz
Children's book illustrator and published author. Panch also does graphic design
projects and teaches illustration courses.
Roque Angelicchio and Raúl Robbiani
Rocque and Raul create illustrations and designs for all types of children
and teenage products. Their illustrations are digitalized and colored digitally.
Alexandra Artigas
Childrens illustrator with 14+ years experience.
Steve Bjorkman
Childrens illustrator of well over 70 books for kids.
Robert Blake
Childrens Illustrator and author of several books.
S. J. Brooks Illustration
Current clients range from children's publishers to editorial
assignments and corporate work.
Nancy White Cassidy
Nancy White Cassidy works in many different medias, including soft
pastel, oil, acrylic, pen & ink and graphite. Nancy's first love is
drawing, which she enthusiastically brings to her illustrations for children.
Bill Farnsworth
"Using light, color and texture, I try to bring the viewer into the painting,
so they too can feel the moment in time. My goal is to tell the story "Without Words"."
Suzanne Gardner
"From Greeting Cards to Children's Book Illustration,
Suzanne's art will delight, capture, and engage
the viewer to look deeper at themselves."
Marilee Harrald-Pilz
As an Illustrator for the past twenty years, Marilee has worked on a wide variety of projects,
always for kids, including books, magazines, educational materials, licensed characters, and
greeting cards.
Lucas Illustration
Diane Lucas specializes in picture book illustration, but also illustrates other genres. Her work
is done in colored pencil and oil.
John Meza Illustration
John's drawing style is humorous, bright, and colorful, and along with editorial illustration work,
he also specialize in doing illustrated maps.
Mat Pilbeam
Mat Pilbeam's illustrations reflect a wide range of styles that have been developed
for various commissions. His work includes children's educational books, packaging, greetings
cards and interactive web sites, newspaper cartoons and more.
Royston Robertson
Royston is a cartoonist and draws humorous illustrations, cartoon strips, and caricatures.
He has illustrated children’s books for Scholastic Publishing and have been commissioned by
Children's BBC, Oxford University Press, and the Law Society, among many others.
Dan Rosandich
Offers an extensive online catalog of cartoons. Dan will colorize images upon request
using Photoshop or in traditional watercolor technique etc.
Christine Sykes
Published Childrens illusrator with over 20 years experience in various mediums.
Nicole Tadgell
Childrens illustrator, Nicole Tadgell, works in watercolor and pencil, using cold press paper
and Winsor-Newton colors. She likes to paint people, and is especially interested in facial
expressions. She also enjoys to painting nature, wildlife, and fantasy.
Linda Undernehr
Linda is a freelance artist working in a variety of areas including children's publishing.
She paints with acrylics in a couple of styles, from tight and realistic to cute and whimsical.
Shari Warren
Shari is a professional illustrator creating artwork for for products such as giftware, fine art
prints and the children's publishing market. Shari creates her artwork combining both
traditional and digital medias.
