If you are interested in Children’s Book Illustration and Writing like I am, here is a list of some wonderful books to inspire you!

1. ✦  From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making A Book,
   

    Janet Stevens. Holiday House, New York, NY

1. ✦  Writing With Pictures: how to write and illustrate children’s  books Uri Shulevitz. Watson-Guptill Productions. New York, NY
   

1. ✦  The Art of Maurice Sendak
   

    Selma G. Lanes. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers. New York, NY

1. ✦  Caldecott & Co., Notes on Books and Pictures
   

    Maurice Sendak. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York, NY

1. ✦  Words and Pictures
   

    Quentin Blake. Jonathan Cape Ltd. London

1. ✦  The Magic Pencil: Children’s Book Illustration Today,
   

    Selected by Quentin Blake, The British Council/The British Library

1. ✦  Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
   

    Martin Salisbury, Quarto, Inc. London

1. ✦  Picture This: How Pictures Work
   

    Molly Bang, SeaStar Books, New York, NY

1. ✦  The ABCs of Writing for Children, 114 Children’s Authors and Illustrators Talk About the Art, the Business, the Craft & the Life of Writing Children’s Literature
   

    Compiled by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff, Quill Driver Books, Sanger, CA

1. ✦  How Picture Books Work
   

    Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY

1. ✦  Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way, Leonard Marcus, A Golden Book, imprint of Random House, New York, NY
   

1. ✦  Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children
   

    William Zinsser, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY

1. ✦  Writer’s Guide to Crafting Stories for Children (Write for Kids   Library), Nancy Lamb, Writer’s Digest Books
   

1. ✦  The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
   

    Edited by Leonard S. Marcus, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA

1. ✦  Innocence and Experience: Essays & Conversations on Children’s Literature, Compiled and edited by Barbara Harrison and Gregory Maguire, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York, NY
   

1. ✦  Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art, Philomel Books, New York, NY
   

1. ✦  Children’s Book Illustration and Design
   

    Edited by Julie Cummins, PBC International, Inc., Glen Cove, NY

1. ✦  Children’s Literature: An Illustrated History
   

    Edited by Peter Hunt, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York

1. ✦  Take Joy, A Book for Writers
   

    Jane Yolen, The Writer Books, imprint of Kalmbach Trade Press, Waukesha, WI

1. ✦  Poem-making, Ways to Begin Writing Poetry
   

    Myra Cohn Livingston, HarperCollins Books, New York, NY

1. ✦  Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books, Perry Nodelman, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
   

1. ✦  From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books
   

    Kathleen T. Horning, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY

1. ✦  The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators
   

    Anita Silvey, Houghton-Mifflin, New York, NY

1. ✦  Best Children’s Books in the World: a treasury of illustrated stories. Byron Preiss, ed. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers. New York, NY
   

1. ✦  Myth, Magic, and Mystery: one hundred years of American children’s book illustrations. Michael Patrick Hearn, Trinkett Clark, H. Nichols, B. Clark, Roberts Rinehart Publishers. Boulder, CO.
   

1. ✦  Virginia Lee Burton: a life in art. Barbara Elleman.
   

    Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, MA.

1. ✦  Ways of Telling: conversations on the art of the picture book.
   

    Leonard S. Marcus. Dutton Children’s Books. New York, NY.

1. ✦  Wanda Gag. Audur H. Winnan. Smithsonian Institution Press.      
   

        Washington, DC. London, England.

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2. ✦No Pretty Pictures: a child of war. Anita Lobel. Greenwillow. New York, NY.
   

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4. ✦Invisible Child: on reading and writing books for children. Katherine Paterson. Dutton Children's Books. New York, NY.
   

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6. ✦Dreams and Wishes: essays on the writing for children. Susan Cooper. McElderry Books. New York, NY.
   

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8. ✦Looking Back: a book of memories. Lois Lowry. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, MA.
   

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10. ✦Between Worlds: the autobiography of Leo Lionni. Alfred A. Knopf. New York, NY.
    

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12. ✦Counting Stars. David Almond. Delacorte Press. New York, NY.
    

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14. ✦Dear Genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom. Leonard Marcus, ed. HarperCollins Publishers. New York, NY.
    

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16. ✦The Kerlan Awards in Children's Literature: 1975-2001. Ruth Berman, ed. Pogo Press. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.