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Illustrating Children's Picture Books * Further Info

Book References


Animal land: the creatures of children's fiction
Blount, Margaret Joan.
New York: William Morrow, 1974

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Art of Maurice Sendak, The
Lanes, Selma G.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1980

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Caldecott & Co. Notes on books & pictures
Sendak, Maurice.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover | | paperback |


Caldecott celebration: six artists share their paths to the Caldecott Medal, A
Marcus, Leonard S.
Walker & Co., 1998

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Children's book illustration & design
Cummins, Julie, ed.
PBC International, 1992

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Children's book illustration & design II
Cummins, Julie, ed.
PBC International, 1997

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Children's book illustration: step by step techniques: a unique guide from the masters
Bossert, Jill.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Children's picture book, The
Roberts, Ellen E. M.
Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1981

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Children's writer's and illustrator's market, 2000
Pope, Alice, ed.
Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 2000

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


From pictures to words: a book about making a book
Stevens, Janet.
New York: Holiday House, Inc., 1995

Available from Amazon.com: | library binding |


Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines. 9th edition.
Burd, Rachel, ed.
New York: Graphic Artists Guild, 1997

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


Graphic Artists Guild handbook: pricing and ethical guidelines. 10th edition.
Van Hare, Thomas, ed.
New York: Graphic Artists Guild, 2001

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


How to write a children's book and get it published. Rev. expanded edition.
Seuling, Barbara.
New York: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., 1991

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


How to write and illustrate children's books
Pelkey Bicknell, Treld and Felicity Trotman, ed.
Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1988

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


How to write and sell children's picture books
Karl, Jean E.
Writer's Digest Books, 1994

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Inside picture books
Spitz, Ellen Handler.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Morphology of the folktale. 2nd edition.
Propp, Vladimir Aioakovlevich.
University of Texas Press, 1968

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


Motif-index of folk-literature: a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, medieval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends (in 6 vols.)
Thompson, Stith.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Talking with artists
Cummings, Pat, ed.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992

Available from Amazon.com: | library binding |


Talking with artists. Volume three
Cummings, Pat, ed.
Clarion Books, 1999

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Talking with artists. Volume two
Cummings, Pat, ed.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Available from Amazon.com: | library binding |


Empire's old clothes, The: what the Lone Ranger, Babar, and other innocent heroes do to our minds
Dorfman, Ariel.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1983

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


Slant of the pen, The: racism in children's books
Preiswerk, Roy, ed.
Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1980

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | paperback |


Wings of an artist: children's books illustrators talk about their art.
Reeves, Howard W., ed.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Words about pictures: the narrative art of children's picture books
Nodelman, Perry.
University of Georgia, 1988

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


World of childhood: the art and craft of writing for children
Zinsser, William, ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


Writers on writing
Allen, Walter, ed.
London: Phoenix House, 1948

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Writing and illustrating children's books for publication: two perspectives
Amoss, Berthe and Eric Suben.
Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1995

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Writing books for children. rev. edition.
Yolen, Jane.
Boston: The Writer, Inc., 1983

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Writing for children and teenagers. 2nd rev. edition.
Wyndham, Lee (William Lee Hyndman) and Arnold Madison.
Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1980

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Writing with pictures: how to write and illustrate children's books
Shulevitz, Uri.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


Writing, illustrating and editing children's books
Colby, Jean Poindexter.
New York: Hastings House, 1967

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Written and illustrated by: a revolutionary two-brain approach for teaching students how to write and illustrate amazing books
Melton, David.
Kansas City: Landmark Editions, 1985

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


You can write children's books. 1st edition.
Dils, Tracey E.
Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1998

Available from Amazon.com: | paperback |


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