#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Julia Hansson from Grown-Ups Are Hard Work! Text by Eric Wennstam reverses roles & Sidney takes Dad to the office. Hand-drawn in pencil & digitally coloured. Translated from Swedish by Polly Lawson. Floris Books 17 Sept @florisbooks.bsky.social @juliahansson.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Annie Booker, from her debut The Great Bear which this week won the children’s picturebook category of the Wainwright Prize (for books about nature). Graphite & watercolour with astonishing use of scale. Two Hoots. @wainwrightprize.bsky.social. @twohootsbooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by trained printmaker Lo Cole, from Night Night, Otto, his picturebook about a baby owl in the wrong nest, and reading bedtime stories. Succinct visual storytelling making effective use of the dark. Rocket Bird Books 10 Sept. @rocketbirdbooks.bsky.social @locole.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Charm & precision by Isabelle Follath from Jeanne Willis’s What Are Little Boys Made Of? A book of revisionist nursery rhymes saying boys can be anything they like as long as that includes caring & kind. Nosy Crow 10 Sept. @nosycrow.bsky.social @isabellefollath.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Polly Dunbar adds impact to the last section of Michael Rosen‘s poem London Airport with this touching image. From Peas On Your Knees: a life in the poems of Michael Rosen, an anthology of favourites with five illustrators. Walker Books 10 Sept. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Ray. From The Tale That Time Sews and the Threads That Bind, with text by Sita Brahmachari. A story of lifetimes, and the love that links generations. Illustrated with such tenderness and decorative loveliness. Templar Books 10 Sept. @templarbooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sarah Massini. Half spread from her picturebook Once Upon a Tiger, a lyrical story about friendship and courage. A shy tiger the colour of a sunset finds a home in a busy turquoise castle. Simon & Schuster 10 Sept. @sarahmassini.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Victoria Ball from Tomorrow Bright Before Us: An Inspiring Quote for Every Day of the Year (250 rich spreads). Nosy Crow 10 Sept. @nosycrow.bsky.social. 15 Sept: ‘It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end’ Ursula Le Guin

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay from Sam Usher’s WARNING No More Silliness! ‘DEFINITELY DO NOT pick your nose.’ Fine example of Usher’s comic draughtsmanship & of how much illustration can add to text. (The pageboy on the right is thinking about copying.) Bloomsbury 10 Sept. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Britta Teckentrup from her book The Chairs, about community, and hostility to, or acceptance of, outsiders. An important and beautiful story notable for its astonishing use of texture and of sunlight, moonlight and firelight. Prestel 8 Sept. @brittateckentrup.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Circle Yuen from her picturebook Mama’s Wedding, about little flower girls and a blended family. Lantana 3 Sept. Joyous spread in crayon & watercolour, finished digitally.
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With good wishes to anyone getting married today.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Axel Scheffler from Gruffalo Granny, his latest collaboration with Julia Donaldson. Macmillan 10 Sept. A celebration of stories that alludes to their previous books. Showing Scheffler’s ability to make a threatening scene comical and endearing. @panmacmillan.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Brita Granstrom from Nature’s Heroes: Great Conservation Campaigners, with Mick Manning’s text. Otter-Barry Books 3 Sept. Scene in watercolour & other media of John Muir, father of US national parks, taking President Teddy Roosevelt camping. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Forest Xiao, Cambridge School of Art MA, who today won the Klaus Flugge Prize for Seven Babies. Recalling Oxenbury, the book comes from Xiao’s experience that one new baby feels like seven, and from sketchbooks full of observation. Walker Books @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Cathy Fisher from A Wild Lullaby, with lyrical text by Jackie Morris about animals and the approach of night. Templar Books 3 Sept. Precisely observed drawing, with the highlight of a white bird, and sunset colours. @templarbooks.bsky.social @cathyfisherartist.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jim Field from I Saw a Tree, with text by Kes Gray. Hodder 27 August. Unusual work for this caricaturist, in a thoughtful book about protecting woodland. Juxtaposing an outline of a figure with a painterly background landscape in shades of green. @hodderbooks.bsky.social

2/2 Second #NewIllustrationOfTheDay today (catching up from holidays). By Michelle Pereira from The Forest is a Part of Me with text by Elizabeth Wathuti. Little Tiger 27 Aug. The destruction of a tree. Using stencils & cut-outs. Combining drama, tenderness & abstraction. @littletigeruk.bsky.social

I/2 #NewIllustrationOfTheDay. There will be two posts today because some were missed in August. This page is an example of Holly Swain’s arresting comic storytelling from Colin’s Monster out in paperback Farshore 27 Aug. Using neatly echoed shapes. @farshorebooks.bsky.social @hollyswain.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Pamela Zagarenski from The Not So Quiet Life of Marcel Marceau, a stunning picturebook with text by Jenn Bailey & Sherry Bushue, about Marceau in the Resistance. Here, Marcel as a boy practises mime among whispers of war. Allen & Unwin 27 Aug. @laurasmythepr.bsky.social