Kid Lit Illustration Dos + Don’ts

Jun 03, 2025

Online event

Join Scholastic Executive Art Director Brian LaRossa for a webinar focused on the do's and don'ts of kid lit illustration.

Scholastic Executive Art Director Brian LaRossa will take participants through the do’s and don’ts of kid lit illustration with an emphasis on your website, social media, your deal, and your process. No matter where you are on your path to publication, you will gain valuable insights from this webinar. This event will be recorded, and a replay will be available for 30 days after the live event.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Virtual 

7pm-8:15pm Eastern Daylight Time

$30/$15 for premium members

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Learn more about your speaker

Brian LaRossa (he/him) is an executive art director in the hardcover picture book group at Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. After hours he teaches a course on design criticism for The City College of New York and is a mentor for We Need Diverse Books. He has written numerous critical essays for publications, such as Design Observer and AIGA’s Eye on Design. He also manages his own display font foundry, which developed a typeface for Google Fonts. In his spare time, he writes fiction. His work has won awards from the Type Directors Club, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Print Magazine, and his conceptual poetry is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art. He lives and works in New York City.