Booktrust has launched their Big Picture campaign, with the search to find the UK’s Best New Illustrators.
The Big Picture aims to celebrate picture books and put them back in the public eye.
The Big Picture Best New Illustrators Award will be given to 10 illustrators who have been published in the UK since 2000. A longlist of 27 names including, Mini Grey, Joel Stewart, Emily Gravett and Polly Dunbar, was released in January and the final 10 winners will be announced by Michael Rosen at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair on 31 March 2008.
The Big Picture Best New Illustrator Longlist
Deborah Allwright
Laura Carlin
Alexis Deacon
Thomas Docherty
Lisa Evans
Shelley Fowles
Laura Hambleton
Oliver Jeffers
Simone Lia
Sam Lloyd
David Lucas
Sarah Massini
Mungo M’Cosh
Sam McCullen
Alice Melvin
Gwen Milward
David Roberts
Viviane Schwarz
Il Sung Na
Vicky White
