LTPB Top 15 Illustrator Interviews: #1-3

And here are the top three interviews on this site! Thanks again so much for following along these past 15 years--I hope you've learned as much as I have from these incredibly talented creators!

3) Joe Todd-Stanton, author and illustrator of The Secret of Black Rock (Flying Eye Books, June 2017). See the full interview here.

2) Felicita Sala, illustrator of Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse with text by Alexandria Giardino (Cameron Books, October 2018). See the full interview here.

1) Júlia Sardà, illustrator of The Liszts with text by Kyo Maclear (Tundra Books, October 2016). See the full interview here.

See you next week when we're back to our regularly scheduled program!

LTPB Top 15 Illustrator Interviews: #4-6

We're almost there! Here are numbers 4-6!

6) Duncan Tonatiuh, author and illustrator of Undocumented: A Worker's Fight (Abrams, August 2018). See the full interview here.

5) Suzy Lee, creator of This Beautiful Day (Atheneum, August 2017). See the full interview here.

4) Sophie Blackall, author and illustrator of Hello Lighthouse (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, April 2018). See the full interview here.

Can you stand the wait??

LTPB Top 15 Illustrator Interviews: #7-9

It's day three of the Top 15 illustrator interviews here on the site!

9) Jessica Love, author and illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid (Candlewick Press, April 2018). See the full interview here.

8) Mariachiara di Giorgio, illustrator of Professional Crocodile with Giovanna Zoboli (Chronicle Books, August 2017). See the full interview here.

7) Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen, creators of Triangle (Candlewick Press, March 2017). See the full interview here.

LTPB Top 15 Illustrator Interviews: #10-12

We're on the last week of the Top 15 series on the site in celebration of 15 years of the blog! Today we're counting down the most viewed illustrator interviews, and we're on numbers 10-12!

12) Poet Gro Dahle and artist Svein Nyhus, creators of Angry Man (NorthSouth Books, March 2019). See the full interview here.

11) Isabelle Arsenault, illustrator of Just Because with text by Mac Barnett (Candlewick Press, September 2019). See the full interview here.

10) Rebecca Green, author and illustrator of How to Make Friends With a Ghost (Tundra Books, September 2017). See the full interview here.

LTPB Top 15 Illustrator Interviews: #13-#15

This Top 15 series has been super fun to run this August--I hope you enjoyed it! Today we're launching the last week of the series, focusing on illustrator interviews. Every day this week I'll reveal three of the top-viewed interviews, starting with #15 and ending with #1. Three posts a day! Thanks for following along, and back to regular posts next week!

15) Sydney Smith, illustrator of Town Is by the Sea with text by Joanne Schwartz (Groundwood Books, April 2017). See the full interview here.

14)  Anna Walker, author and illustrator of Mr. Huff (Viking, April 2018). See the full interview here.

13) Shaun Tan, author and illustrator of Eric (Scholastic, October 2020). See the full interview here.

LTPB Top 15 Design Details: #1-#3

And here are the top 3 details posts from the site! 

3) Wee Unicorn by Meg McLaren (Charlesbridge, February 2025)

2) Rock by Laurel Croza and Matt James (Groundwood Books, March 2025)

1) HaiCuba/HaiKuba: Haikus about Cuba in Spanish and English by Lawrence Schimel, Carlos Pintado, and Juan José Colsa (Ediciones NorteSur, September 2024)

Next week we culminate the Top 15 series with illustrator interviews!

LTPB Top 15 Design Details: #4-#6

We're down to numbers 4-6 on the top details posts on this site!

6) The First Snow by Marie Stumpfova and Radek Maly (Albatros Media, August 2024)

5) When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Willis Hudson and London Ladd (Holiday House, May 2025)

4) Unnaturally Blue by Dorson Plourde and Byron Eggenschwiler (Kids Can Press, June 2025)