Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle 2026
£777 / $1,043 (approximate)Learn how to illustrate, write and pitch beautiful books for kids!
Create professional ready-to-send pitches for some of the hottest art markets right now and build a powerful portfolio packed with winning characters designed to catch an art director’s eye – if you’re dreaming of a shelf full of gorgeous books written and illustrated by you, then this is the bundle for you!
- Do you want to build a lucrative and rewarding career in the dreamy world of books, for children?
- Do you want to share your passions with other people and influencing a whole new generation – and get paid to do it?
- Do you want to create magical worlds and winning characters – and get to call it your job?
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Children’s books remain a huge market for your art and this fabulous bundle will help you to create gorgeous characters and strong pitches for this exciting market, ready to send off to publishers, art directors and more. Plus you’ll build a kickass portfolio that will help you land more work in these fantastic markets.
Get ready to make pitches that will help you land your dream illustration jobs with the Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle – because no matter how digital, online or automated the world becomes, there’s nothing quite like a book.
– and this fabulous bundle gives you everything you need to write and illustrate your own picture book.
Grab the Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle and get your work in books like these!
In this fabulous bundle you get:
LIVE
- My Kid Book Pitch (Feb 23 – Mar 20, 2026)
- Illustrating Children’s Books (Apr 27 – Jun 1, 2026)
INSTANT ACCESS
- Bootcamp Special: Character Play Get an archive of 26 fun assignments
Sign up today to get this portfolio-boosting bundle!
Here’s what you get in this incredible bundle:
- My Kid Book Pitch: (Feb 23 – Mar 20, 2026). Imagine getting paid to write and illustrate your very own children’s book – creating your own unique characters and world for children and parents to fall in love with again and again. This 4-week course with Lilla Rogers and Zoë Tucker will give you everything you need to write your own authentic, unique children’s picture book and avoid the slush pile. You’ll get an incredible 123-page downloadable workbook, Lilla’s dreamy custom Magic Cards to help you access your unique idea, tons of worksheets and questionnaires to help you dig deep into your personality, and tons more.
Artwork by Make Art That Sells student Kim Fleming from My Kid Book Pitch
- Illustrating Children’s Books: (April 27 – Jun 1, 2026). The career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books is consistently one of our most popular courses, and no wonder! You’ll spend five intense weeks with top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, who together will help you to create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream gig. By the end of the course, you’ll have a finished pitch containing everything an art director needs to see to get you jobs.
Magical illustration by Jacqui Langeland for Illustrating Children’s Books
- Bootcamp Special: Character Play: (Instant Access). This fantastic course from children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker and creative director, art agent and toy creator, Riley Wilkinson, will dig deep into creating winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more. Originally run as a live course you’ll get instant access to an archive of assignments. You’ll get mini texts from Zoë and assignments to create characters, before brainstorming with Riley to come up with your own unique character-based toy or game. Give your portfolio a tremendous boost in two of the hottest art markets right now.
An amazing opportunity to work on your characters, your illustrations and your writing. The perfect bundle for you to break into the kid book market!
Your dream creative gig is waiting for you … with The Get Me a Picture Book Deal Bundle!
why it’s perfect for you
It’s perfect for…
- Artists who want to explore the booming children’s picture book illustration market.
- Artists who have had some success in either of these markets and who want to explore them further.
- Artists who love these markets and dream of getting paid work in them.
- Artists who would like to learn more about creating and licensing appealing, engaging characters.
Make Art That Sells students with books they’ve illustrated and/or written: l-r, Lynn Gaines, Erica Root, Darcie Olley, Maruga Koops and Sharisse Steber
l-r, Annabel Tempest, Erika Jones, Emily Hamilton, Adam Ming and Sarah Allen
It’s time to follow your passion, find your unique voice and make lots of incredible art so that you can enjoy a successful, lucrative career while playing and having fun. Sign up now for this incredible bundle and let your art shine!
Cover created by Fran Ng in Illustrating Children’s Books
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L-R Lilla Rogers, Zoë Tucker & Riley Wilkinson
LILLA ROGERS, Founder, LILLA ROGERS STUDIO
Lilla Rogers: a former illustrator, innovative art agent and author, Make Art That Sells co-founder Lilla has boatloads of wisdom to share from her decades in the business, plus a warm and quirky approach to teaching that will trick you into doing your very best art
ZOË TUCKER, ART DIRECTOR
Zoë Tucker has worked in children’s book publishing for nearly two decades, starting with Random House, working across the list from baby books right up to Young Adult. Her books have won numerous awards and she has worked with Penguin UK (Puffin Imprint), and Scholastic UK (Alison Green imprint). Brilliant children’s book art director and author of several children’s picture books including Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine and Greta and the Giants .
Riley Wilkinson, game designer
Riley Wilkinson, designer, art director, and creative director for toy and product companies and creator of the smash hit game for pre-schoolers, The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game
It’s time to follow your passion, find your unique voice and make lots of incredible art so that you can enjoy a successful, lucrative career while playing and having fun. Sign up now and let this be the time for your art to shine!
Don’t miss out! Get the Get Me a Book Picture Deal bundle now!
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- You acknowledge that your work will only get viewed by Lilla in the live classes if you submit it as directed by the deadline of each week when the class is live. You also acknowledge that although Lilla will view every piece of work submitted and provide general feedback to class, only a handful of pieces will be chosen each week for specific critique (which will be shared with the class), and there is no guarantee that you will receive personal critique from Lilla during the course.
- If you submit any work in class and it is selected for review, you give permission for that critique (including your images) to be shared with the rest of the class in any format.
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