Ultimate Picture Book Kit
Whether you’re a teacher, bookseller, librarian publisher, festival promoter, curator, writer, illustrator or art student, there should be something here to help you take picture books to a wider audience.
Best Book Guide
Download our free Best Book Guide to the Best New Illustrators.
2008 Best New Illustrators Guide (A5 pdf 879Kb)
Looking at Books
This is a guide to support the use of picture books in school and early years settings, with an introduction by Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen
Looking at Books - the Big Picture Guide to Exploring Picture Books (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format 345Kb)
More Looking at Books - the Big Picture Guide to Exploring Picture Books (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format 613Kb)
Draw a Crowd guide
This is a resource for anyone interested in holding a picture book event or collaborating with an illustrator with an introduction by Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen
Draw a Crowd Guide - The Big Picture Guide to Picture Book Events (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format 145Kb)
Big Picture Party
The Campaign for Family Learning have joined forces with the Campaign for Drawing and Booktrust to put together a resource guide filled with ideas for holding your own picture book themed library event
The Big Picture party will run throughout October and is a great way of attracting new families to the library using a creative approach.
Download a free resource guide here .
Looking For an Author?
Find out how to arrange an author visit to your school or library.
Logo
Our logo has been designed by Erika Pal, winner of an open competition among students on illustration courses at art colleges across the UK.
Erika is a BA student on the Illustration and Animation course at Kingston University.
You can see more of her work at www.erikapalillustration.com . We intend the logo to become a kitemark for quality picture book events taking place over the coming months and years.
Download logo to use on your publicity materials here
Download logo (3mb hi-res tif) (Warning! large file)
Download logo (115kb lo-res jpeg)
