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 ...

PORTSMOUTH — Illustrators are the true wizards of the children’s literature world, and fourth-grader Lea McCarthy of Rye knows it. She remembers the cozy bedroom in “Goodnight Moon” and the mouse ...

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 ...

In college he thought he was creating dark, gothic paintings. “And I’d bring it in and people would say, ‘Oh, it looks like a children’s book!’” White said. He went with it. In the years since college ...

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 ...

An exhibition of Estonian contemporary children's literature illustrations was opened at the UN headquarters in New York this week.

Children’s book illustrator Lee White shares his creative process. Children’s book illustrator Lee White shares his creative process of finding the backstory and adding detail to a book’s characters.

Monica Wellington is a beloved illustrator, children’s book author and instructor. She has illustrated more than 40 children’s books, and her course Children’s Book Illustration is one of the most ...

To call Edward Gorey eccentric is an understatement. The illustrator, whose work amassed an almost cultlike following in his lifetime and beyond, was a mystery. In this week’s issue of the Book Review ...

Celebrate the accomplishments of Black creators, activists and heroes by adding these children's books to your library One of the best ways to begin any conversation with a kid? By reading them a ...