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Merrill specialized in children's books, or what might be called Young Adult fiction. Many were entries in multi-book series for which he provided illustrations for one or more volumes. [15] Lynx-hunting (The Camping-Out series, vol IV) (1872) by Charles Asbury Stephens; Captain January (1892) and Star Bright (1927) by Laura E. Richards
Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books.
Her work is still popular and remains in print, as greeting cards, postcards and prints. [3] The Medici Society sponsored a six week trip to Palestine in 1934, [3] and part of her illustrated diary of the trip was published as A Journey to the Holy Land in 1988. [10] She became a Medici Society shareholder in 1938. [3]
Modern book illustration comes from the 15th-century woodcut illustrations that were fairly rapidly included in early printed books, and later block books. [1] Other techniques such as engraving , etching , lithography and various kinds of colour printing were to expand the possibilities and were exploited by such masters as Daumier , Doré or ...
Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books. [1]
Christopher John Rocco (born July 9, 1967), [1] [a] simply known as John Rocco is an American illustrator of book covers and children's books. [1] He is best known for illustrating the covers of books in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is the sole creator of some children's picture books.
Leo Dillon (March 2, 1933 – May 26, 2012) and Diane Dillon (née Sorber; born March 13, 1933) were American illustrators of children's books and adult paperback book and magazine covers. One obituary of Leo called the work of the husband-and-wife team "a seamless amalgam of both their hands". [ 3 ]
Franklin Booth, illustration for Flying Islands by James Whitcomb Riley, 1913. He illustrated books like James Whitcomb Riley's The Flying Islands of the Night (1913), which included multiple plates of his watercolor images. "It includes Booth's open compositions and attention to classical forms, with skies filled with soft quiet washes of hues ...