#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Marion Deuchars from her inspiring activity book Play With Colour. Thames & Hudson 11 August. Easy activities that nevertheless nod towards works of fine art. This simple doodle suggests a blend of Alexander Calder and Niki de Saint Phalle. @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by American illustrator Jessica Roux from a soothing bedtime celebration, Thank You For This Day. With text by Sheleana Aiyana. Mice in a nest in one of the book’s images of the natural world, rendered in scrupulous detail. Frances Lincoln 6 August. @quartokids.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Kate Read from A Long Tail, with text by Rebecca Atkinson. A playful & colourful invitation to follow a tail with your finger (a pre-writing skill) all the way to finding an animal called a Looperdoo. With die cuts & a gatefold. Happy Yak 6 August. @quartokids.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Andy Smith from The Palace of Facts. With text by Kate Olesin. What on Earth Books 6 August. Busy spread from a dip-into book combining cartoons with photographs. Queen Nefertiti & The Girl with the Pearl Earring help to make the pages appealing. @whatonearth.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Frankie Gritton from A House Made of Books. Ladybird 6 August. This lovely image of a library, ‘the strongest home ever made’, uses a gorgeous pattern of rectangles, & enjoyable imaginative details. No wonder it’s ‘everyone’s favourite place.’ @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Picture of a snake charmer by Olivier Tallec from his picturebook Red Snake, Blue Snake. Blue Snake, in the corner (with hat, and frightened expression), is making his escape. The charmer echoes the drawings of Saul Steinberg. Gecko Press 6 August. @geckopress.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by wildlife illustrator Teagan White for Aviarium, with text by Dominic Couzens. Scrupulous accuracy and a charming setting in this spectacular large-format volume of information about birds. Big Picture Press 6 August. @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social @teaganwhite.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Matt Hunt from Newton is Floating, a picturebook about gravity with text by Eoin McLaughlin and facts at the back. Science and comedy meet in this succinct image of a dog with Gromit ears as the force is switched off. Magic Cat 6 August. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social 

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Aldy C Aguirre from What Makes a Family: Celebrating the Filipino Day of the Dead. Written by Eric Ruiz Roxas. Handmade scene with observed figures in a graveyard, & a sense of community & light, made from soft, blended watercolour. Lantana 4 Aug. @lantanapub.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Katie Ponder from Myths of Japan written by Masako Carey. Dorling Kindersley 6 Aug. Ponder’s handsome, stylised graphics delight in patterns & are influenced by the cultures they illustrate. In this tale a rescued crane turns into a woman. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Alison Jay from her board book Tree and Me, with text by Ruth Huddleston. About 2 children who plant magic acorns that grow into huge oak trees in a year. Jay combines airy, decorative elegance with the naivety of folk art. Old Barn Books 6 Aug. @oldbarnbooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sophie Bass, from How The Rivermaid Grew Her Tail and Other West African & Caribbean Myths, told by Jessica Wilson. For a Yoruba tale about loneliness, the colours & patterns of a teeming underwater scene nod to folk art. Words & Pictures 6 Aug. @quarto-kids.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Viviane Schwarz. Part spread illustrating ‘The Song of the Slow’ a poem by Kate Wakeling from her collection The Flying Machine of Dreams. Lively drawing, bold outlines & digital techniques. Otter-Barry Books 6 August. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social @vivschwarz.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jill Calder, from Cass and the Beast, with text by Claire Mabey. A girl in her glowing orange coat at night, on her fearless way to befriend a wild creature. Drawn with wild lines expressing a childlike freedom. Coming from Gecko Press on 4 August. @geckopress.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Alex Willmore for Neighbour’s Cat with text by Michael Rosen. Comic digital depiction of a luxurious bath – or what the neighbour’s cat gets up to in your house when you’re out. From reclusive Walker Books 2 July. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Finnish-born, UK-based, digital artist Johanna Tarkela. For Steve Cole’s Wild Ones, about a world from which humans vanish. Companions Scamp, Chandelier, Falstaff and Punzel seek safety from the Things. Scholastic 30 July. @johannatarkela.com @stevecolewriter.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay for fans of cute anthropomorphism. Detail of Harvest Festival, a busy autumn spread by Freya Hartas from lift-the-flap book Here We Go Round the Woodland Year, with rhymes by Rachel Piercey. With images from previous books. Magic Cat 23 July. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Denis Angelov from Stanley Said No!, with text by Sue Meikle. About a boy whose habit of saying no gets him into monstrous trouble. Ladybird 16 July. A stylish frieze with successive vignettes of indignation at the queue-jumper on a rainy day. @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social

An excellent piece by Mat Tobin in Books for Keeps about how to share reading with children and foster reading for pleasure. @mattobin.bsky.social @booksforkeeps.bsky.social

Mat Tobin@mattobin.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have written a piece on nurturing lifelong readers inspired by the wonderful Aidan Chambers (pages 4-5) booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/u... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by James Munro. Endpaper from Us and Them, a 40,000-year history of humans keeping pets. Paperback out from Graffeg, 16 July. With text by James Carter. Comical caricatures of some improbable pet owners. Note: don’t take a bath with your goldfish. @graffegbooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. A cheerful scene by Australian illustrator Joanna Bartel from Ben’s Library, a bibliophiles’ story about a new friendship and a ‘little free library’. This book also promotes public libraries. Text by Amani Uduman. New Frontier Publishing 16 July. @booksource.bsky.social

In July's @booksforkeeps.bsky.social my Picture This looks at illustrations that widen the net of readers: in Kate Rolfe's Wiggling Words, Elina Ellis's The Truth About Books & Claire Sahara Lemp's My Dad Can. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social @quartokids.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/pict...

My interview with Lauren Child in today's Sunday Times about her Lotta and Lola picturebook Pudding NOW Please. @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Lauren Child: my life with Charlie and Lola

The former children’s laureate talks about her popular series and why the latest instalment has taken her 20 years to write

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Ellie Snowdon from Leaving the House, an O’Hare Family story cleverly told by Sally Nicholls. Anthropomorphised hares in a well-observed scene of family life. Note the mother’s expression (& the blue shoes come up again). Andersen Press 16 July. @andersenpress.bsky.social

Correction: Baljinder Kaur. Apologies.

Nicolette Jones@nicolettejones.bsky.social · 4w ago

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Market scene by Baljinder Jaur, Highly Commended for the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award. Her book The Sleeper Train also won this year’s V&A Illustration Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Market scene by Baljinder Jaur, Highly Commended for the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award. Her book The Sleeper Train also won this year’s V&A Illustration Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Lucia Para. Because I love sketchbooks I can’t resist another example. Sharing a page from the runner-up for the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award, announced yesterday. Several studies observing ways small children sit. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Page of sketches by Signe Torp, winner, from 400 entries, of the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award announced today, Shirley’s 99th birthday. Torp was runner-up last year. Contest run by Orange Beak Studio & Shirley’s family. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social.

My interview with illustrator Britta Teckentrup in the new issue of @booksforkeeps.bsky.social: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/laye.... Free online, & including interviews with the new Children’s Laureate Patrice Lawrence, and John Agard who won the CliPPA children’s poetry award for the third time.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Liz Brizzi, from Milo and Twig, a story told by an injured bird about a boy who nurses him better and then sets him free. Post Wave 16 July. The nostalgic style (using digitised drawing) turns an old-fashioned street into a satisfying pattern. @postwavebooks.bsky.social