Illustration Nation

To learn the business of children’s book illustration, one needs to look no further than Greenville artist Bonnie Adamson.   

Bonnie, whose prior career was in graphic design and magazine publishing, has garnered the wisdom of a veteran and mentors those with an interest in entering the industry. “I had always thought about doing children’s books and carried characters and ideas around in the back of my mind. One day, I decided to Google ‘children’s illustrators,’ which lead to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), an organization that has been instrumental in teaching me this business,” Bonnie says.