Freelance Children's Book Illustrator (Retired)

I offer services as a freelance children’s book illustrator because I love illustrating children’s books and bringing the story to life. I am a long-time professional freelance cartoonist and illustrator who works in many different illustration styles. I am also a career-long graphic designer who knows the mechanics of book layout with experience in book publishing so I can help you in many ways to create your children’s book. I can also help you find the best children’s book printers and get comparable estimates from them.

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Children’s Book Illustration

The number of illustrations needed for a children’s book greatly depends on the target audience age. For young readers, picture books play an important role in child development. Beautiful illustrations will not only engage the young reader, they’ll also help sell your book. Hiring the right children’s book illustrator is very important to the success of your children’s book.

Putting the Children’s Book Together

Along with your story and the children’s book illustrations, is the need to put it altogether into a physical book or ebook, with front matter, back matter, book covers, ISBN numbers, library of congress numbers, and so much more. It can be overwhelming, but not if you hire the right children’s book illustrator who is also a professional graphic designer with book layout and publishing experience like myself.

How I Can Help

Whether you want a children’s book cover illustrated, or want a fully illustrated children’s book, or just want me to layout your children’s book with your story and the children’s illustrations you already have, you’ve come to the right place. I can help.

I can work with you to bring your story to life, or I can design your children’s book, or I can take your direction and just put together the files needed for your book printer. The choice is yours, but certainly the more you can take advantage of my knowledge, design, and illustration expertise, the better your children’s book will be.

Children’s Book Illustration Budget

Another factor to consider in hiring a children’s book illustrator is the budget. It is impossible to give a general estimate for children’s book illustration because each illustration is dependent on the number of hours it takes to complete an illustration, which will be dependent upon the complexity of what you’re asking to be illustrated. In short, the more detail, the more time. I can state that the average picture book takes a minimum of two months to illustrate between the initial sketches through the final art of all the pages, covers, book layout, and printers’ file preparations.

It’s not often that a children’s book illustrator can show-off their work as an illustrator AND as the book designer, but I can! Below are a few samples of children’s books I’ve illustrated where I also provided graphic design, book layout and publishing services. You can also visit my Books, Booklets, and Brochures page to see samples of other books involving book cover design and book layout.

Cactus Pete Meets Buster the Bully

Category: Freelance Children’s Book Illustrator

“Cactus Pete Meets Buster the Bully” is a heartwarming children’s story that tackles the timely issue of bullying. Set in a colorful desert world, Cactus Pete and his loyal friend Beans find themselves the target of Buster the Bully. Through courage, kindness, and the power of friendship, Pete and Beans show young readers how to stand up to bullies in a positive way. With beautiful illustrations by Malane Newman, this charming book is perfect for children ages 4 to 8, delivering an important message about compassion and resilience. Writer Authors: LeAnna Ramsey and Donna Logsdon. Children’s Book Illustrator: Malane Newman. Book Available Soon.

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the amazine nekudos experience children's book cover by rachel kutoff

The Amazing Nekudos Experience

Category: Freelance Children’s Book Illustrator
The Nekudos Experience is an educational children’s book that teaches young Jewish children how to read, write, pronounce and comprehend the Hebrew alphabet. This instructional children’s book uses a proven and imaginative teaching technique created by author and full-time educator Rachel Kutoff. Proven results of teaching young Jewish children how to read, write, pronounce, and comprehend the Hebrew alphabet, symbols, and special endings. Writer Author: Rachel Kutoff. Children’s Book Illustrator: Malane Newman. Buy Now! Available on Amazon.

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Short Animations Announcing Book

The Perfect Christmas Tree

Category: Freelance Children’s Book Illustrator
An adorable and funny story about a little pine tree that is headstrong and independent. He lives in a beautiful forest grove with his other siblings. Their father gives them advice and shares his unusual plan on how to grow up and ‘not’ be cut down by humans, taken out of the forest, and decorated for their Christmas holiday. Will the young trees follow their father’s advice? Or will they learn the risks and high cost of growing up vain?

As a children’s book illustrator, I immediately fell in love with this little character and his personality. I decided to show off his personality a bit in some charming and very short animations I created to go along with the client’s social media marketing campaign announcing the new book for Christmas 2020. I want to encourage everyone to buy this book! Children can’t help but fall in love with this story, the lead character and his personality, the lessons to be learned, and of course the illustrations! Writer and Award-Winning Author: Michael Pellico. Children’s Book Illustrator: Malane Newman. Buy Now! Available on Amazon.

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Princess Sabrina and the Pot of Gold

Category: Freelance Children’s Book Illustrator
Princess Sabrina and the Pot of Gold children’s book is perfect for boy and girls from ages 6 to tween years. This story is filled with adventure and excitement about a rainbow that takes four children into a magical kingdom where they embark on a journey to rescue a Leprechaun princess, fight an evil King and his army of Leprechauns, and save a decaying forest. This children’s book is 69 pages filled with beautiful and detailed illustrations that depict strategic and exciting moments throughout the story on nearly every facing page. Writer Author: Michael Pellico. Children’s Book Illustrator: Malane Newman. Available for purchase at Moonbow Publishing website.

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the great big giant woods children's book illustration cover

Once Upon a Time in The Great Big Giant Woods

Category: Freelance Children’s Book Illustrator
As a children’s book illustrator, I relished illustrating this charming children’s book for young children about a family of bears that live in the great big giant woods. The mother bear wanted to make one of her delicious berry pies for dessert. The three young bears are asked to go into the forest and collect the berries…but not all of the young bears listened to their mother and learned a hard lesson. Those that did listen, enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Author: Jim Boat. Children’s Book Illustrator: Malane Newman. Kindle version available for purchase on Amazon.

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a strange piece children's book illustration cover

Gebaisha and Meshari The Strange Piece

Category: Freelance Children’s Book Illustrator
A wonderful children’s book for young children about the last Samer tree in the Manara Desert and the animals that live there and a strange cupcake that shows up. Author: Muna Al Dhaheri. Children’s Book Illustrator: Malane Newman. Printed in Arabic. English version not available. Available for sale in Abu Dhabi only.

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