Favorite Illustrators, Past and Present
Some Current Illustrators for You to Enjoy
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Favorite Illustrators of Some of My Friends

Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff (Babar)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
Darryl K Sweet -born in 1934 in Highland Park, New Jersey
Hillary Knight (Eloise)
Maurice Sendak
John Tenniel (Alice in Wonderland)
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Arthur Szyk
Ian Falconer (Olivia the Pig)
John Bauer
E. H. Shepard (Winnie the Pooh)
John R. Neill (Royal Illustrator of Oz)
For my own personal favorite, I’ll pick:
Brett Helquist, who illustrated Lemony Snickets’ A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Are any of these your favorite(s)? Any other illustrators you would like to mention?
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I have to go with Maurice Sendak, for the Little Bear series.
Wonderful favorite, Little Bear! He’s a great illustrator, Maurice Sendak.
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John Tenniel was also a well-known political cartoonist, most famous for his cartoon Dropping the Pilot.
I’d add E. H. Shepard, the original illustrator of Winnie the Pooh.
Thanks, Daniel. I added E. H. Shepard. I didn’t know John Tenniel was well-known for political cartoons, too.
Thanks for a lot of names I didn’t know.
It is unfair – I often remember the author but rarely the illustrators. I feel guilty. Have to start paying attention tomorrow
Ellie, just use Google. I couldn’t remember some of the illustrators; I just Googled the name of the book with the word “illustrator.”
I have such a special place for the Winnie-the-Pooh books as they were a warm fuzzy place to retreat to in a very challenging childhood…