Melquea Smith pivoted her entire career when she realized Black and brown kids weren't seeing themselves in picture books.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Illustrators have made a living creating book covers. Now, artificial intelligence is learning to make art. Michael Whelan has made a career painting aliens, dragons, robots and other fantastical ...

Anyone who isn't an illustrator, art director or simply a fan of illustration probably hasn't run across American Illustration, a behemoth tome that has been published annually for 30 years. The ...

We’ve all heard of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach – and the man that wrote the stories. But who is the man behind the illustrations in Roald Dahl’s classic ...

'A love and feel for place': Australian illustrated children's books – in pictures The new Australian children’s laureate Leigh Hobbs takes us on a fascinating tour of the best in Australian ...

Now in its third year, the contest reminds us of the beauty of a physical book, which is under threat from the e-book. According to the Publishers Association, 2012 saw a 5% decrease in physical book ...

© Max Löffler 2018 from The Folio Society and House of Illustration Book Illustration Competition for Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Selected Adventures and Memoirs of ...

For my birthday this year I was given a 1947 edition of Samuel Pepys' diaries. This was post-war austerity Britain and materials were scarce, so the book is printed on thin "prayer book" paper and has ...