Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch some leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage, and talk about books with The Times’s children’s ...

The title page from "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton. Burton's award-winning illustrations will be at R. Michelson Galleries, the first time much of this work will be on ...

Jeanette Canyon, "Rumble, Grumble, Grinding Gears," City Beats, 2005, mixed-media sculpture, polymer clay - Written by S. Kelly Rammell, this book takes the reader on a journey of a city from a pigeon ...

His book Watercress was awarded the 2022 Caldecott Medal, conferred by the American Library Association as a top honor to one artist of an American picture book for children each year. Written by ...

The renowned illustrator Charles Santore, who was from Philadelphia, has one last gift for fans of his artistic skills. Santore died in August 2019 in Philly at age 84, leaving his illustrations for a ...

It wouldn’t be fair to call Shaun Tan the Hieronymus Bosch of children’s literature. There’s nothing quite so bleak or appalling in the work of this contemporary Australian illustrator to rival the ...

Beatrix Potter was a frequent guest at the Suffolk mansion. National Trust Images - Rupert Truman A newly-discovered drawing of the north roof of Melford Hall by Beatrix Potter. National Trust - ...