#kid lit

[joandraws]

An Auspicious Meeting

[emmbrr]

they're going to the castle 🏰

[nathsketch]

🎶 What’s a fire and why does it, what’s the word? Burn? 🎶

A new month started today, and with it, #mermay! Kicking it off with the quintessential mermaid, from one of the pages of the Part of Your World Little Golden Book 🥰

Happy May!! 🐚🦀🐠

[mariacfrantz]

Sleepover with your secret ghost friend (v2)

[judgeitbyitscover]

The Wild Robot, story and art by Peter Brown

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, April 2016

Here's some of the illustrations in The Wild Robot. These are from Peter Brown's blog about the process behind creating the book.

I also love this illustration, which is one of the earliest concept pieces Peter Brown did for the robot.

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Why is she there? Where did she come from? And, most important, how will she survive in her harsh surroundings?

Roz’s only hope is to learn from the island’s hostile animal inhabitants. When she tries to care for an orphaned gosling, the other animals finally decide to help, and the island starts to feel like home. Until one day, the robot’s mysterious past comes back to haunt her…

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Katherine Pyle (American, 1863-1938) • Illustration to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, from the collection Mother's Nursery Tales • 1918

[dominiqueramseyart]

The page proofs for my 2nd illustrated book, Everyone starts small, have arrived! It came out so good ya'll

[julianplum]

🦋 🌿 👀 🧡 🫙 ✨ // classroom // gouache on paper

[kiroujidraws]

Very tiny skzoos in tiny business attire who are off to do very important business stuff (in tiny)

[richincolor]

Coffees for Gaza 🍉

Coffees for Gaza is an effort spearheaded by artists, including kidlit illustrators, seeking to support families in Gaza. You can follow them on Instagram at @ CoffeesForGaza -- and over the summer, they started a Patreon as well, where you can subscribe to donate monthly. From their Patreon:

"Can you skip a coffee to save a family? Coffees for Gaza is an initiative aimed at collecting mass small donations to help families in Gaza to evacuate, rebuild or afford basic necessities. With infrastructure destroyed and prices skyrocketing, most families in the strip find themselves without any source of income and desperately need help and support to continue their lives with dignity. Coffees for Gaza asks you to give up one weekly coffee and donate the cost instead to support a family in Gaza. Here, you can subscribe to donate those coffees in a monthly chunk which will be distributed equally to that month's families, in exchange for rewards including digital workshops, image downloads and limited edition stickers by our talented team of artists."

Book friends, highly recommend checking them out, as well as @ storysunbirds on Instagram, a collective of authors and illustrators in publishing standing up for Palestinian children.

(And friends in the USA: call your reps for an arms embargo now!)

[mayillustrates]

Art comms open! 🧸🖍️

Would you like to see you, your oc or your favourite character as a character in a children’s book kind of style? Check this out!

- Payments go through PayPal

- Contact me through tumblr inbox or dm to @ fairycatgarden on discord! (All messages are filtered) for more details

! I am incredibly sorry for the lack of examples available atm ! Better sheets will be made as soon as possible !!

(Ps ; 17$ is meant as 17€ just like the rest!)

(I can convert prices to your currency when talking about details 🤎)

(The cannot list is only for reference, I adapt and adjust when needed as it’s all things I am learning to do everyday!!)

To get your favourite sylvanian family drawn I have a small price of 17€ for them ^^ You will then have to provide a clear picture (if you don’t have them they’re often on Pinterest or google) so that I can see well what I have to draw!

Please reblog if possible 🌞

Additional examples of how I draw non human ocs for this style ;

[averyhelm]

[emmbrr]

me on the first day of september

[nathsketch]

Okay…I saw this is already available for preorder on Amazon, so I guess it makes it official now! 😍

Ariel has been my favorite girl since forever and working on a Little Golden Book has been my dream since, well, forever, which makes this a double dream come true! 🧜🏻‍♀️

“Part of Your World” will be released on April 9 and I can’t wait for you to see it and sing along with it!

It’s so wild to know that the song I’ve been constantly singing since I first saw this movie when I was a little kid has now my drawings to accompany it in an actual Little Golden Book 🥹

Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did! I don’t know when, I don’t know how, but I know something is starting right now… ;) 🐠 🦀

Find me here: Instagram | Website & Portfolio

[gabriel-grumbletoon]

Soup!

[karen-crysttina]

day 1 of #MagicMermay challenge by brendabossato.