#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. A cheerful scene by Australian illustrator Joanna Bartel from Ben’s Library, a bibliophiles’ story about a new friendship and a ‘little free library’. This book also promotes public libraries. Text by Amani Uduman. New Frontier Publishing 16 July. @booksource.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Ellie Snowdon from Leaving the House, an O’Hare Family story cleverly told by Sally Nicholls. Anthropomorphised hares in a well-observed scene of family life. Note the mother’s expression (& the blue shoes come up again). Andersen Press 16 July. @andersenpress.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Market scene by Baljinder Jaur, Highly Commended for the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award. Her book The Sleeper Train also won this year’s V&A Illustration Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Lucia Para. Because I love sketchbooks I can’t resist another example. Sharing a page from the runner-up for the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award, announced yesterday. Several studies observing ways small children sit. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Page of sketches by Signe Torp, winner, from 400 entries, of the Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award announced today, Shirley’s 99th birthday. Torp was runner-up last year. Contest run by Orange Beak Studio & Shirley’s family. @shirleyhughes.bsky.social @orangebeak.bsky.social.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Liz Brizzi, from Milo and Twig, a story told by an injured bird about a boy who nurses him better and then sets him free. Post Wave 16 July. The nostalgic style (using digitised drawing) turns an old-fashioned street into a satisfying pattern. @postwavebooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by David Litchfield from The Sound of a Smile written by Louise Greig who lost her hearing as an adult. A digital spread full of incident and images, creating a rich, busy pattern that shows how seeing can be noisy too. Orchard Books 16 July. @hachettechildrens.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by David Tazzyman from You Can’t Take an Elephant into School, in which the faces are all a bit bonkers and the fun is in the pictures. With text by Patricia Cleveland-Peck about a school where the teachers are animals. Bloomsbury 16 July. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Unusual collaboration between two illustrators, Oliver Jeffers and Kevin Waldron. From their picturebook A Day Off School, about FOMO when you stay at home. This colourful explosion suggests they had fun egging each other on. HarperCollins 16 July @harpercollins.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Lauren Child from the first picturebook of her new Lotta and Lola series: Pudding NOW Please, a dialogue about social niceties. Bold, stylish and funny as always, with scanned-in fabric collage and a cross-eyed dog. Simon & Schuster 2 July. @simonandschuster.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Spread by Andre Carrillho from Barney The Barnacle. Combining a cartoonist’s skill with techniques making ink run and blur to create watery effects. Text by Christian Foley about a shipwrecked band. Flying Eye 9 July. @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social @andrecarrilho.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Spread by Gemma Koomen from Beacons of Light: A Journey Through the World of Lighthouses. Delightfully illustrated non-fiction with an irresistible handcrafted image of a lighthouse ship in cross section. Post Wave 9 July @gemmakoomen.bsky.social @postwavebooks.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Angie Morgan from Small Stanley's Big List of Scary Stuff, out in paperback. Otter-Barry Books 2 July. Crisp drawing & pleasing shades of light blue & red-brown. When his list of fears blows away Stanley can't remember what he was afraid of. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

Radio 4 extra tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 am and 4 pm rerun of The American Art Tapes radio programme about our family and 100 interviews with American artists in 1965/6.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Marc Majewski from We Are All Made From Stars with text by Benedikt Lehnert. A cheerful story about the cycle of life, in which splashy, childlike, painted illustrations use bold brushstrokes to make colourful patterns. Little Gestalten 2 July. @marcmajewski.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros from his picturebook The Teacup, about preconceptions and, eventually, a welcome and a reunion for a stranger. Simple imagery suggests creatures and setting, using colours that are different but harmonise. Nosy Crow 2 July. @nosycrow.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Ben Sanders from Pincho: Nothing IS Possible, the satirical story of a capybara who is happy doing nothing, and a bird who has hugs, smelling the roses and laughter on a strict to-do list. Graphic image saying: just chill. Little Tiger 2 July. @littletigeruk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Suhayla Ibrahim from Come to the Park, a delightful celebration of playful, sporting, social and exploratory activities for a whole day at the park. Stylised image illustrating the effect of proximity and distance. Written by Margaret Bateson-Hill. Alanna Max 29 June.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jennifer Falkner from The Story House, written by Vikki Conley, a picturebook based on children in war-torn Somalia who had never seen a book until the author gave them some. Light-filled, joyous image combining reality and imagination. New Frontier Publishing 25 June.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Heike Scharrer, a page from one of the 23 shortlisted sketchbooks for this year’s Shirley Hughes/Orange Beak Studio sketchbook award. Capturing, as Shirley did, the stance of children at play (here: building a snowman). @orangebeak.bsky.social @shirleyhughes.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Megan Snyders from The Kingdom of Tigers written by Felicity Yeoh. In gouache with a soft line. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2 July. A story of Malaysian tigers in search of a habitat. About a mother‘s love, friendship, nature and belonging. @harpercollins.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by David Tazzyman whose style is always both zany and spot-on. From the second book in Iona Rangeley’s Cecily Sawyer series, How to Crack a Code. A sinister stranger appears while the protagonists are shopping in Spymart. HarperCollins 18 June. @harpercollins.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Anna Ross from her funny picturebook Bumpty Dumpty: The Very Careful Egg, third prize winner, #Macmillanprize for illustration 2026. Love this (slightly trimmed) image of unravelling loo paper turning into a Joan Miro/Roy Lichtenstein homage. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Spread by Maddy Magee from her draft picturebook The Storm is Coming! which has charm, energy, well-observed characters and dramatic images of weather. This came second for the Macmillan Prize for unpublished illustration, announced this week. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Rachel Harrison from her very funny rough of a picturebook, This is A Bear, which won the Macmillan Prize for unpublished illustration, announced yesterday. Clear, witty, visual storytelling. (I had the privilege of being one of the judges.) @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Bruno Valasse, bringing unusually quirky, colourful, digital pictures of elephants to an unconventional book of non-fiction, The No-Brainer Brain Explainer by Crab Museum. Wide Eyed Editions 11 June. @wideyed.bsky.social @crabmuseum.bsky.social @quartokids.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay from Aimee de Jongh’s labour of love, a graphic novel interpretation of Golding’s Lord of the Flies, which yesterday won the Shadowers’ Choice award for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration, voted for by schoolchildren.. @faberbooks.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationoftheDay revisits Kate Rolfe's Wiggling Words, which won the Carnegie Medal for Illustration today. Lovely printed lettering in a picturebook about the struggle to learn to read (lettering also on her dungarees at the ceremony). @twohootsbooks.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by New Zealand-based designer and co-founder of Messy Press, Erica Harrison. From The Boring Drawing book, which is full of drawing tasks, some very simple, some more imaginative, but all triggering ideas and presented in an elegant graphic context. Messy Press 11 June.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Seated tyrannosaurus by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros from Hide!, a picturebook by Em Lynas that speculates about what might have happened to the dinosaurs. Drawn and digital, conveying drama, comedy and character in a simplified style. Hodder 18 June. @hodderbooks.bsky.social