LibGuides: EDUC 218: Children's Literature: Writing and Illustrating

Write and Illustrate your Own Children's Book

How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books by Treld P. Bicknell & Felicity Trotman
Publication Date: 1988
Location: Jafet Library - AUB
A helpful guide showing how to bring freshness and vitality to children's books; The best way to develop an idea; How to present work successfully to a publisher and more.
Writing with Pictures by Uri Shulevitz
Publication Date: 1997
Location: Riyad Nassar Library - LAU
A step-by-step guide to creating children's books. The book covers aspects from the preliminary idea to publication, and describes how to tell a story visually, draw characters and develop settings.
Writing for Children and Getting Published by Allan Frewins Jone & Lesley Pollinger
Publication Date: 1996
Location: Riyad Nassar Library - LAU
Children's Picturebooks by Martin Salisbury &Morag Styles
Publication Date: 2012
In this publication, Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles introduce us to the world of children's picturebooks, providing a solid background to the industry while exploring the key concepts and practices that have gone into the creation of successful picturebooks.

Books

Masterful marks: cartoonists who changed the world by Monte Beauchamp
Publication Date: 2014
Sixteen Graphic Novel Biographies of: Walt Disney - Dr. Seuss - Charles Schulz - The Creators of Superman - R. Crumb - Jack Kirby - Winsor McCay - Hergé - Osamu Tezuka - MAD creator, Harvey Kurtzman - Al Hirschfeld - Edward Gorey - Chas Addams - Rodolphe - Lynd Ward and more.
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature by Lissa Paul et al.
Publication Date: 2005
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature brings together the work of 170 writers and illustrators, tracing the historical development of genres and traditions over 350 years of children's literature in English.

Web Resources

Author / Illustrator Directory
Authors & Illustrators sponsored by the Association for Library Service for Children.
Children's Book Illustrators

Children' Book Illustrations Gallery artworks of great children’s book illustrators of the past.

Illustrator Gallery from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators a non professional organization for individuals writing and illustrating for children and young adults in the fields of children’s literature, magazines, film, television, and multimedia. Click here to search the Illustrator Gallery.