I hope everyone enjoyed the retrospective I ran in August! Today we're back to our usually scheduled program with Hyewon Kyung, author-illustrator of I Am a Lioness, This book caught my eye the moment I saw it, and I'm excited to share the process behind creating it with you all! I'll let Hyewon take it from here!
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August 29, 2025
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!
August 28, 2025
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.
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??
August 27, 2025
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.
August 26, 2025
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.
August 25, 2025
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.