CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

Newly released by Tally Ho! Publishing is Dr. Jody Dean's heartwarming story about Roxie the dachshund finding her "forever home."  Illustrated by Susie Lee Jin, www.susiestudio.com .

Goodreads Book Giveaway Mine! by Susie Lee Jin Giveaway ends November 30, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway Enter for a chance to win one of 3 signed, first-edition copies of MINE! by Susie Lee Jin (40 page picture book for ages 4-8).   From the Simon & Schuster website: Several competitive bunnies compete in an epic battle to claim a single carrot in this hilarious and sweet debut picture book about sharing. Mine! No, Mine! No, Mine! Yours? Wait...ours? Told with only four words and filled with energetic illustrations, Susie Lee Jin puts an inventive twist on the concept of sharing with this laugh-inducing tale. PRAISE... "This nondidactic story is a natural for collections about sharing, effectively softening the natural tendency toward possessiveness of most living things through its sweet illustrations." – Kirkus Rev

ANGELIQUE E. ANDERSON P - 18 DIANA TING DELOSH P - 19 JASON KIRCHNER P - 20 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

YUKO KATAKAWA P - 15 STEPHANIE RUBLE P - 16 MARILYN PAPAS P - 17 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

SHARON LANE HOLM P - 12 T. T. TYLER P - 13 CHRISTINE MIX P - 14 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

BETSY FRANCO FEENEY P - 9 MADONNA DAVIDOFF P - 10 MARYLOUISE ALU CURTO P - 11 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

MIKE CICCOTELLO P - 6 PATRICIA KEELER P - 7 KIMBERLY ROSE BATTI P - 8 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

PENNY WEBER P - 3 ANNIE ZYGAROWICZ P - 4 BARBARA WILLCOX DILORENZO P - 5 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

Kudos to the Winners of this years Illustration Directory Covers! (please click on the images for a bigger view) Melissa Iwai , Claire Lordon , Suzanne Morris , Mike Ciccotello Stephanie Ruble , Sharon Holm , Mike Ciccotello , Diana Ting Delosh   Check out out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com We will be featuring the Illustrator promo pages in the upcoming posts. First up will be the 2016 Black & White Directory Pages .

All Images are © copyrighted by the individual artists Ta Dah! The 2016 CBIG Postcard. The front features 35 member illustrators and hints at the variety of illustration styles among our membership. The back of the card lists all 2016 members. Please visit cbig-nyc.com to view more of our art. Illustrators on the front of the card. From left to right, starting from the top row: Row 1: Patricia Keeler, Diana Ting Delosh, Lisa Falkenstern, Melissa Iwai, Susie Lee Jin Row 2:   Cathleen Thole-Daniels, Karen Romagna, Donna Miskend, Claire Lordon, Mike Ciccotello Row 3:   Stephanie Ruble, Drue Wagner, Betsy Franco Feeney, Jason Kirschner, Deborah Cuneo Row 4:   Madonna Davidoff, Annina Luck Wildermuth, Annie Zygarowicz, Barbara Willcox DiLorenzo,  Sharon Holm Row 5:   Vicky Rubin, Christine Mix, Sara Kahn, Amalia Hoffman, Lisa Cinelli Row 6:   T. T.  Tyler, Jennifer Merz, Marie McCann, Roberta M. Rivera, H. Ruth Karpes Row 7:   Allyn Howard, Suzanne Morris,

The Illustration Friday prompt this week is nose, so of course I thought of the old Froot Loops commercials with Toucan Sam following his nose (because it always knows). Though even as a kid, I knew that Sam's nose was really his beak. I was inspired to paint two characters from my current picture book project following two toucans while wearing toucan noses: I also posted another nose painting (of Little Red Riding Hood) for Illustration Friday on my blog.  Click here to see it. Please visit my website, sruble.com , to learn more about my art and projects, or my blog to see more recent art.

c 2016 Laura Goetz My entry into the NJSCBWI Annual Conference, Juried Art Show. The theme was to illustrate the words, "I will arise and go now," by William Butler Yeats. www.LauraGoetzIllustration.com

The newest Adventure of Gunther the Underwater Elephant is now published and available. Amazon or your local Bookstore should be able to get copies for you. The book includes coloring pages, fun facts and an excellent adventure. ISBN-13:  978-1499600513

Let's Go to the Hardware Store by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Melissa Iwai was just released this week. To see the creative process behind the illustrations, please visit this post . Anne and Melissa will be at BookCourt (163 Court St.) in Brooklyn on March 26 at 2 pm and Books of Wonder April 3 at noon to read and sign copies.     

MINE! is Susie Lee Jin's first picture book, with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (January 2016).  This week, SVA children's book teacher and author-illustrator Monica Wellington interviewed Susie about her publishing journey.  To read about the making of MINE!, please visit susiestudio.com or Monica's Blog .

© Lisa Cinelli We're happy to announce that CBIG member  Lisa Cinelli is the First Place winner of the 2016 SCBWI Tomie dePaola Illustration Award ! The illustration prompt for the contest was a passage from Little Red Riding Hood. There were over 400 entries for this year's SCBWI illustration contest. Way to go Lisa!

Detail of The Wicked Wolf.