Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Nancy Elizabeth Wallace is an author/illustrator who uses cut paper art to create her illustrations. You can learn more about her, including more information on how she creates illustrations, on her website. 

 Nancy's work is also featured in "Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project"


Teachers, students, and librarians can download a bookmark based on this dot here!

Renata Liwska

Illustrator Renata Liwska grew up in Warsaw Poland and now lives in Calgary, Canada. Learn more about her on her website. She has illustrated "The Quiet Book" and "The Loud Book" by another Celebri-dot, Deborah Underwood. 

Ame Dyckman

Ame Dyckman is the author of "Boy + Bot". You can read more about her on her website.
Ame describes her dot, "It's my favorite sky color.  And, my favorite hair color!  (I painted it with hair dye!)"

Check out the book trailer for "Boy+Bot"!



Watch for future books:
TEA PARTY RULES, illustrated by Keith Campbell

(Viking; 2013)

WOLFIE & DOT (working title), illustrator TBD

(Little, Brown; 2014)

Lynne Avril

Lynne Avril is the illustrator of over 80 books for children, including the young "Amelia Bedelia" series by Herman Parish (Greenwillow Books), and the "Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse" series by Rebecca Janni (Dial Books). She won the Schneider Family Book Award from the ALA in 2011 for "The Pirate of Kindergarten" by George Ella Lyon. You can find out more at  lynneavril.com.

Lynne describes her dot, "My dot is actually a photo of the floor of my studio, under my drafting table. My art is covered with little dots and so is my studio floor! I LOVE splattering paint!"

Lynne also collaborated in the "Over The Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project" which is a fundraiser for breast cancer research. Find out more here. 

Rob Dunlavey

Rob is currently at work on children’s picture books for Random House and Simon & Schuster. Rob is represented by Pippin Properties, Inc. a boutique literary agency specializing in children's books. His illustrations have also been commissioned by The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Businessweek, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Plansponsor, The Appalachian Mountain Club, Houghton-Mifflin, Cengage, Harcourt, Scholastic, The Miami Children's Museum and the Children's Museum of the East End (Long Island) and many others. He has also illustrated several children's stories for Bayard Presse in France.

Rob earned a BA in Fine Art (painting, drawing & sculpture) at Southern Illinois University and went on to an MFA in sculpture at Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA) and has exhibited his paintings and drawings in many locations. In 2009 he exhibited paper sculptures and children's book illustrations at The American Library in Paris.

Here are a few samples from Rob's children's book illustration portfolio:

Learn more about Rob on his website

Kathi Appelt

Kathi Appelt is a prolific writer. Her book, The Underneath was a Newbery Honor book and her other books have won many awards. You can find out more about Kathi on her website.

Kathi describes her dot, "This is the face of my beautiful little muse, Jazz.  She’s mostly Tonkinese, but we call her Talkinese because she has so much to say.  Against her dark little face, her eyes are strikingly blue.  When I’m working, she stays right beside me.  You could say she keeps her eyes on me."

I want to give a shout-out to our dear friends at Pippin Properties for helping to connect the dots with Kathi. I love the Pippins! 

Tiffany Schmidt

Tiffany Schmidt writes YA novels -- her first, "Send Me A Sign," will be out in October 2012 and the second, "Bright Before Sunrise", comes out in March 2014. 

Learn more about Tiffany on her website