How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head

written and illustrated by Bill Peet

Love the use of diagonals to lead your eye across the space.

A Porcupine Named Fluffy, Characters

written by: Helen Lester

illustrated by: Lynn Munsinger

I always loved the concept and design of this character. Poor Fluffy.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Atmosphere, Edible

I love how Ron is using the scale of the Pancakes in the distance to give the reader a sense of atmosphere. Also, that is one delicious looking pancake.

Written by Judi Barrett

Illustrated by Ron Barrett

Effective Spot Color. Blair Lent. Tikki Tikki Tembo.

Great spread by Blair Lent. She adopts the style of traditional Chinese landscape painting, adding her own modern textures and colors. I thought this was a really smart way to show atmospheric depth - the limited color still seems complete.

Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit: A Book of Changing Seasons, illustrated by Il Sung Na

the texture and color of these pieces are extraordinary-I also love that even though it is about winter time, the colors are alive and bright but still feel like that special time between winter thawing and spring awakening

Weirdly Cute Characters. Mark Fearing. Second Grade Monsters.

Look at this crazy class of characters! I can't get enough of Fearing's slightly-dark-in-a-cute-way aesthetic. Giant sunglasses on Ms. Medusa? Genius. Fanny pack on that werewolf thing? Adorable. (Plus, he clearly knows his spreads. Super obvious gutter.)