The Illustration Departmentさんのイラストまとめ

“It takes courage and strength to be an artist. Don't be afraid. Just do it. Get moving.”

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on the late, great Tomie dePaola. https://t.co/xTK19nWB82

We’re combining #WomensHistoryMonth with Illustration History…

10/31) Anna Dewdney

Anna’s career started during a car ride, when her daughter asked her a question about a llama…

For more, visit:
https://t.co/YWSwVXQSHF

We’re combining #WomensHistoryMonth with Illustration History…

2/31) Helen Oxenbury

She got her “break” when Sebastian Walker asked her to do a book for a new publishing company he was starting in his back bedroom—Walker Books.

For more on her, visit: https://t.co/QsiNwUHlsR

Congratulations to ID alum, Mirka Hokkanen, for winning the SCBWI #narrativeaward!

To learn more about her, and to see her work, visit: https://t.co/yHWIUSeWga

A. A. Milne processed PTSD (from serving in WWI) by writing stories about his time in the woods with his son, Christopher.

E.H. Shepard was asked to illustrate them.

The rest is history.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on Ernest Howard Shepard. https://t.co/X6YBfEgiCj

Did you know that…

Gyo Fujikawa blazed trails for diversity in #kidlit?

Eric Carle art directed Pharmaceutical advertising?

Sandra Boynton was rejected by publishers?

Ashley Bryan stormed Omaha Beach?

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This illustrator inspired George Lucas and the look of #StarWars.

There’s Tatooine in the painting, “Arizona”.

Naboo in “Romance”.

And, Cloud City in “Dinky Bird”.

Here’s our #arthistory Instagram post on Maxfield Parrish: https://t.co/bfRGxC3Tv4 #StarWarsRiseofSkywalker

“If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” has been called:

…a critique on welfare.
…a warning against altruism.
…a cause of millennial entitlement.

It was referenced in Peanuts; named as Oprah’s “favorite thing”; and read by Michelle Obama and Laura Bush.

Happy #NationalCookieDay!

This artist—a member of the Standing Rock Sioux, specifically Lakota—said that we should “see the world with both the curious eyes of the young and the wistful eyes of the elderly”.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on S.D. Nelson. https://t.co/t3ya8Jx7pU

Due to anti-Jewish legislation—and the rise of the Nazis—this artist fled to New York.⁣

His emigration was made possible by the sponsorship of George Duplaix—co-founder of Little Golden Books.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on Tibor Gergely. https://t.co/SQsHaE19mD