Bibliography of Additional Reading and Resources

Bang, Molly. Picture This: How Pictures Work. SeaStar Books, 1991. 96 pp.

Cummins, Julie. Children’s Book Illustration and Design. 2 volumes. PBC International, New York. 1998.

Cummins, Julie. Wings of an Artist: Children’s Book Illustrators Talk About Their Art.
Harry N. Abrams, New York. 1999.

Cummings, Pat. Talking With Artists. Conversations with Illustrators. 3 volumes. Clarion Books, New York.

Englebaugh, Debi. Art Through Children’s Literature: Creative Art Lessons for Caldecott Books. Teacher Ideas Press, Englewood, CO. 1994.

Kiefer, Barbara Z.. Potential of Picturebooks: From Visual Literacy to Aesthetic Understanding. Merrill, 1995.

Novelli, Joan. Using Caldecotts Across the Curriculum. Scholastic Professional Books, find latest version. 112+ pp.

Marcus, Leonard. A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal. Walker & Company, New York. 2008.

Marcus, Leonard. Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture-Book Teams Go to Work. Walker & Company, New York. 2001.

Marcus, Leonard. Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book. Dutton Children’s Books, New York. 2002.

Nodelman, Perry. Words About Pictures. University of Georgia Press, Athens. 1988.

Pitz, Henry C. Illustrating Children’s Books: History – Technique – Production. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. 1963.

This book covers the history of children’s books and also gives a thorough description of their production.

Salisbury, Martin. Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication. 1st American ed. Barrons, New York. 2004.

Shulevitz, Uri. Writing With Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children’s Books. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. 1985.

Spitz, Ellen Handler. Inside Picture Books. Yale University Press, 1999. 230 pp.

Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books. American Library Association. Find latest version. 175+ pp.

Stewig, John Warren. Looking at Picture Books. Highsmith, 1995. ISBN 0-917-84629-X

Horning, Kathleen T. From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
HarperCollins, 1997. ISBN 0-06-024519-0.


Illustrator Videos

How a Book is Made. Schlessinger Media. Wynnewood, PA. 2004.

Reading Rainbow – Simon’s Book. GPN.

Websites

Teaching Books·Net – A Wisconsin based resource for all web-based resources related to children’s books, authors and illustrators. Ordinarily a fee-based resource, free access is available through Wisconsin’s DPI Badgerlink website. http://www.teachingbooks.net/enter/

http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators_atwork.mspx shows some brief 'slide shows' about art techniques and illustrators also go to the kids page - 'Meet the Illustrators' and 'Picture Book Timeline'

“Illustration as Art” articles are available for download on the Book Links Web site. To

access them, visit http://www.ala.org/BookLinks and click on “Browse Our Archive of Online Articles,” then select “Subscriber Favorites.”

For “Hands-on Learning” activities designed to accompany a discussion of these books, visit the Book Links Web site at http://www.ala.org/BookLinks and click on

“Web Connections.”

Children’s Books

Bang, Molly. Picture This: How Pictures Work. SeaStar Books, 1991. 96 pp.

Leedy, Loreen. Look At My Book : How Kids Can Write & Illustrate Terrific Books. Holiday House, 2004. 0-323401590-2.

Christelow, Eileen. What Do Illustrators Do? Clarion Books, 1999. 0-395-90230-4.

Christelow, Eileen. What Do Authors Do? Clarion Books, 1995. 0-395-71124-X.

Gonyea, Mark. A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn’t Make it Good. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 2005.

Gonyea, Mark. Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn’t Make it Bad. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 2007.

Marshall, Pam. From Idea To Book. Lerner Publications, 2004. 0-8225-1385-4. This book about the writing, illustration and publication process features author/illustrator Nancy Carlson and her book It’s Not My Fault.

Aliki. How a Book Is Made. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1986. 0-690-04498-4. Covers the publication and printing process in much more detail than most other books – but the illustrations are very small so it doesn’t work for group sharing.