During November, libraries and literacy groups celebrate Picture Book Month, a reading initiative started by a group of authors and illustrators to encourage parents and children to read. Picture ...

The Golden Age of children’s book illustration is understood to have run more or less from 1860 to 1930. The spread of literacy, newfangled methods of production and an almost mystical efflorescence ...

Illustrations in children’s books may have been long seen as less important than fine art, but French illustrator Joelle Jolivet hopes picture book illustrations will receive as much appreciation as ...

A particular pleasure of ordering new titles for the library’s picture-book collection is getting to see all of the variety in their illustrations. From watercolors to mixed-media collages to digital ...

How do adjacent drawings or photos affect our reading experience as readers? What happens in the mind as we process both words and images? How do both tell a story together? As a reviewer, I’ve ...

It was an unusual scene for an art museum. Against the backdrop of a large treehouse mural, under leafy twinkle lights and seated on a carpet of faux grass, adult visitors sat reading beloved classic ...

Until relatively recently, the craft of making a picture book has been somewhat overlooked. Despite the enduring popularity of greats such as Maurice Sendak, Beatrix Potter, and Raymond Briggs, to ...

Emma Farrarons has won the £5,000 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize for her illustrations in My Hair Is As Long As River, written by Charlie Castle (Macmillan Children’s Books). In the book, through a "series ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Balint Zsako’s recently published “Bunny & Tree” is built from primal fairy-tale stuff: a cute moppet—in this case, a rabbit—runs away from a big baddie (a wolf), becomes lost, and seeks refuge with ...