Best illustrated books all over the world
Kim Jihyun is an illustrator, graphic designer and picture book creator from South Korea. She studied Design and Illustration at the University of Brighton, UK, and Seoul National University, South Korea, and lives in Seoul with her husband and their young daughter. Instagram | irenekimji Website | kim-ji.com Amazon | […]
Emma Lewis is a London-based illustrator and designer working across narrative and commercial illustration. She writes and illustrates picture books while also taking on editorial and branded work. Her style is shaped by folk and naive art, the picture-books of the mid-20th century, and her travels. She studied illustration at […]
Lane Smith (1959) — American Illustrator and Author Lane Smith was born in 1959 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and later moved to California, where he studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena while working as a janitor at Disneyland. After graduation, he moved to New York and began […]
Adrienne Adams (1906–2002) was an American author and illustrator of children’s books. Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and raised in Oklahoma, she moved to New York in 1929 to study at the American School of Design. After graduation she worked as a freelance designer, creating display work, textiles, and greeting […]
Marsha Winborn is an American illustrator known for her expressive watercolor and pen-and-wash style. She has illustrated more than thirty-five children’s books, including Grandma’s Cat by Helen Ketteman, What’s the Magic Word? by Kelly DiPucchio, and My Little Wagon by Alma Powell. Her illustrations are distinguished by warmth, gentle humor, […]
Peter Utton — British illustrator and author of children’s books. He discovered his love of drawing early: as a child, he would constantly ask his mother what to draw next — birds of paradise, jam pies, cowboys, and more cowboys. At fifteen, he began attending classes at the Southend School […]
Friso Henstra (1928-2013) — Dutch artist, illustrator, and comics artist. He was born in Amsterdam on February 9, 1928, and died there September 28, 2013. The son of a painter, he began drawing from early childhood. He studied at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (two years drawing), then, […]
Fred Marcellino (1939–2001) was an American illustrator and author of children’s books. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Marcellino began his career as a painter working in the field of abstract expressionism. He studied in Venice on a Fulbright scholarship, and after returning to the United States, turned to design and […]
Pyotr Ivanovich Bagin (born 1938) — graphic artist and book illustrator. Born and raised in Ufa, Bagin graduated from the Leningrad Art and Graphic College in 1958 and later from the animation department of the VGIK Art Faculty (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography). For more than forty years, he has […]
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American artist, printmaker, and book illustrator, recognized as one of the leading masters of 20th-century wood engraving. He was born in Cologne into a Jewish family and studied at the Cologne Municipal School of Applied Arts, later continuing at the Academy of Graphic Arts in […]
Alenka Sottler (born 1958) is a Slovenian artist and illustrator. She was born in Ljubljana into the family of sculptor Gorazd Sottler and received her first informal training in drawing and sculpture in her father’s studio. She later graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, completing postgraduate studies […]
Alexander Nikolayevich Azemsha (1950–2014) was a well-known Russian artist and illustrator. In 1975, he graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1978 to 1988 he served as the chief artist of the youth magazine Koster (“The Campfire”). Azemsha designed and illustrated over one hundred books, […]
Marjorie Flack (1897–1958) was an American author and illustrator best known for her contributions to early 20th-century children’s literature. She was born on Long Island, New York, and began her career in illustration before turning to writing, creating books that combined simple language with engaging imagery for young readers. Among […]
Edmund Dulac (1882–1953) was a leading illustrator and artist in France and Britain during the early 20th century. Born in Toulouse, France, he showed an early interest in art. His father worked as a restorer of old paintings, and his uncle collected and studied Eastern art, including Japanese prints and […]
Mikhail Solomonovich Maiofis (born 1939) is a Russian artist and illustrator, known for his work in graphic arts, painting, and etching. He was born in Leningrad and graduated in 1963 from the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Maiofis began illustrating books in the early 1960s and went […]
Nikolai Nikolaevich Kupreyanov (1894–1933) was a Soviet graphic artist. He was born in the Polish town of Włocławek. In 1912, he graduated from the Tenishev School and then studied for four years at the Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg University, while also attending the workshops of the Imperial Academy […]
Bob Graham (born in 1942) is an Australian author and illustrator best known for his picture books about everyday life. His works often focus on small, real moments — families, city streets, quiet gestures — drawn with loose watercolors and a documentary kind of tenderness. In 2002, his book Jethro […]
Leo Lionni (1910–1999) was a pioneering author and illustrator of children’s books. Born in the Netherlands, he grew up partly in Italy and later moved to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art director in advertising and for Fortune magazine. In 1962, Lionni began creating children’s […]
Vladimir Radunsky (1954–2018) was an artist, writer, and designer who never liked to stay in one style for long. He was born in Perm, grew up in Moscow, and studied art, design, and architecture before moving to New York in 1982, where he discovered the world of children’s books. He […]
Oleksandr Shatokhin (born 1988) is a Ukrainian illustrator. He has been drawing since childhood, with watercolor as his favorite medium, while also working with digital graphics. Shatokhin illustrates children’s books and magazines. His wordless picture book Yellow Butterfly (2022) gained international recognition and was translated into several languages. In his […]