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 ...

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 ...

Just like music, art evokes various emotions within us. Some makes us feel happy. Others make us a bit sad. And there are those that leave us all warm and fuzzy inside. Vintage children’s book ...

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.

A mother of two mindlessly picked up a paintbrush in late March 2020, and started painting the cover of one of the books she had read to her children earlier in the day -- and said she incorporated ...

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 ...