The other night, I was reading the book Overboard to Clark (Which is a bit young for him but he enjoyed the anarchic nature of it). Tabitha had enjoyed it too. I noticed that the illustrations were similar to another book that we have that I like quite a bit 
called Baby Cakes. I though that the illustrator’s name sounded familiar, but I wasn’t entirely sure.
When I thought about it more, I though the illustrations also looked like another book that we read to the kids all the time called My Favorite Toys (Jane Kemp and Clare Walters). And when I confirmed that he was the same person who illustrated that book, I decided that Sam Williams is easily one of m y favorite children’s book illustrators.
The surprise I had was in trying to find more information about him. A Wikipedia search doesn’t bring him up at all. And he doesn’t appear to have his own website (really?). The only information I could find about him was here. This site, Jacketflap, which I’ve never heard of before, says that he has illustrated over 70 books dating back to 1999. Wow!
Many of these titles are board books (which means technically my kids are too old for them). But I see he also has a series of Ready to Read books about twins (written by Ellen Weiss). He also seems to work a lot with the authors Karma Wilson (I like some of her stuff (like Baby Cakes but find other things a bit less than satisfying) and Sarah Weeks who writes very simple, but rather fun books. (more…)
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