Write your picture book!

  Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, is back as a LIVE course in 2026! Find out more and sign up here.

Course dates: July-Nov 2020

Kid Book Combo

£757 / $1,034 (approximate)

your DREAM children’s book GIG IS WAITING FOR YOU!

Have you ever dreamed of writing or illustrating a children’s book, or even a whole series of books? Children’s book illustration is one of the hottest markets for your art, and it’s also thrilling and fulfilling: it’s wonderful to immerse yourself in a text and create characters and worlds full of magic and color.

Our amazing Kid Book Combo bundle gives you everything you need to build a successful children’s picture book career.

This bundle includes:

Sound good? Scroll down to find out more about this amazing bundle.

*USD values are approximate

Important note about payment plan installments: You have the option to pay for this bundle in 3 monthly installment payments if you choose to do so at the time of purchase. By choosing the ‘deposit’ option, you will pay 34% of the total bundle price at the time of purchase, pay 33% one month after the initial purchase date, and pay the remaining 33% two months after the initial purchase date. Please note that payments will not be taken automatically. You will be sent an automated email to pay the remaining installments one month and two months after the initial date of purchase and you will need to make your installment payments securely on our website when they become due.

 

✨ Imagine creating appealing characters for children to fall in love with over and over again

✨ Imagine bringing stories to life with your beautiful art

✨ Imagine sinking into the magical world of children’s book illustration and creating your own unique world, and getting paid to do it!

Children’s picture book illustration is exciting and rewarding, and art agent Lilla says that it also happens to be one of the hottest markets for your art! According to a report from the Association of American Publishers, revenue for children’s and young adult fiction grew by 11.3 percent to $3.67 billion in the five years to 2018, while in the UK, the children’s book market has grown for four consecutive years, and is now worth £383m. In other words, sales of children’s books are booming, and this means that art directors are on the lookout for artists!

Our amazing Kid Book Combo bundle gives you everything you need to build a successful children’s book illustration career.

The Kid Book Combo Bundle includes:

Book your spot now!

Illustration by MATS student Allistair Burt

Of course, we’ve included our raved-about, job-snagging online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. Consistently one of our most popular courses, you’ll spend five intense weeks with top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned 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. Children’s author and course co-teacher, Zoë Tucker, provides three new texts written exclusively for class, which are cleverly designed to bring out the best in all students, whatever level you’re at (and two of the texts which Zoë wrote for the class were published in 2019! – including one for which a Make Art That Sells student got the illustration gig. Next time it could be you!).

Illustration by MATS student Katie Mazeika

You’ll also get in-depth video lessons, daily drawing prompts, weekly assignments that will build your pitch, weekly LIVE video reviews, interviews, and more. By the end of the course, you’ll have a finished pitch ready to send off, including a front cover, character sheets, and a full-page spread – essentially everything an art director needs to see. Click here to read some of our Illustrating Children’s Books success stories.

Plus you’ll also have all the insider knowledge you need to identify and approach clients, and then to work with them in a professional way once you’ve secured the gig. And you will do all of this in the company of other like-minded artists from around the world in our supportive class community.

We know that artists love illustrating children’s books. It’s magical to sink into a project for months, creating their own signature characters and world.

That dream children’s book illustration gig can be yours!

 

Work by Agnes Ofner from our Illustrating Children’s Books course

What if you want to write and illustrate your very own picture book? If you’ve got a burning idea for your own book or you dream of writing and illustrating your own stories, art agent Lilla’s brand-NEW course, My Kid Book Pitch, is for you!

In this thrilling new course, you’ll learn how you can create and pitch a completely unique idea – the children’s picture book that only you can write! Led by art agent Lilla with contributions from children’s book art director Zoë and other special guests, you’ll discover a completely new way to come up with a strong pitch that an editor or art director will love. Right now, editors are looking for authenticity, books with meaning or a quirky story. Full of Lilla’s trademark playful but powerful teaching style, this course will use magical custom playing cards and fun idea generator worksheets to help you create your truly personal and authentic pitch. By the end of this [four] week course, you’ll have a fantastic, engaging character, a kick-ass opening line, a storyline and a double-page spread with text – everything you need to grab an editor’s attention and avoid the slush pile. For illustrators, writers and anyone with a story to tell, you won’t want to miss this new course.

Finally, we’ve thrown in Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces, because the ability to draw faces can make a huge difference to your creative career! This entertaining and instructive self-paced course will teach you how to draw faces in a completely innovative way that will boost your confidence and inspire your creativity, and it’s full of Lilla’s quirky touches, such as her incredible African mask and quirky international doll collections. You’ve never seen a course like this before!

Faces get you jobs – art by LRS artists

All our courses are delivered online in password-protected classrooms. We do not deliver physical products in the post, but rather send you an email with the URL of the classroom and the password you need to log in. This email is sent to the email address you used to register for the class and will be sent at least two days prior to the start of class (except where you register with less than 48 hours to go, in which case it will be sent within 48 hours of registering, which may be after the class has begun). If you do not receive your classroom login information within this time frame please contact us via email to hello [at] makeartthatsells.com so our team can assist you.

You can view our full detailed terms & conditions here: https://makeartthatsells.com/terms-conditions/

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Hurry hurry HURRY – we’ve re-opened registration for Portfolio Club for just 72 hours, from today until this Thursday, so if you’ve been kicking yourself for not signing up, join now!

You’ll get instant access to all of the course materials for January, plus today’s Mini assignment for February – and because you get a different new assignment every month, you can do February’s assignment along with the rest of the class!

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It’s February, and that means we’re just over three weeks from the start of Lilla’s unique picture book writing course for artists, My Kid Book Pitch 🥳📚

Want to write your very own kid book story this year? It’s an amazing income stream for illustrators and creative people – and if you write *and* illustrate then you get paid twice!

Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/my-kid-book-pitch/
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Lovely art for Portfolio Club by Make Art That Sells student Candice Hartsough @cordialkitten.

Wishing you’d signed up for this fabulous class? Look out for some big news coming on Monday … 👀
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Just four places left in this year’s Inner Circle, our small-group mentorship intensive from Lilla Rogers.

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Hurry hurry HURRY – if you want to be mentored by a creative powerhouse who was a top art agent for 30 years, as well as being an illustrator, author, speaker, educator and more then don’t miss out!

You’ve got ONE chance in 2026 to sign up for Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle – and once the 12 spots are filled then it’s gone for good.

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If you’ve been longing for warm, supportive, personalized guidance in your creative career – you just need someone to tell you what you’re doing well and how you can do it better – then fab news: Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, is BACK in 2026!  Join Lilla and a maximum of 12 participants for focused six weeks where you’ll get personalized assignments, wisdom and advice from a former art agent with 30 years’ experience of nurturing and mentoring creative people like you.  The first two times we ran Inner Circle, it sold out, so don’t miss out – grab your spot now!  Head over to today’s blog to find out more, including how you can spread the cost over installments to make it as accessible as possible.  Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/

If you’ve been longing for warm, supportive, personalized guidance in your creative career – you just need someone to tell you what you’re doing well and how you can do it better – then fab news: Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, is BACK in 2026!

Join Lilla and a maximum of 12 participants for focused six weeks where you’ll get personalized assignments, wisdom and advice from a former art agent with 30 years’ experience of nurturing and mentoring creative people like you.

The first two times we ran Inner Circle, it sold out, so don’t miss out – grab your spot now!

Head over to today’s blog to find out more, including how you can spread the cost over installments to make it as accessible as possible.

Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/
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There’s just over a month to go until the start of art agent Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course for artists and illustrators, My Kid Book Pitch, and we can’t wait!

Here’s some dreamy art from class by Make Art That Sells student Paloma O’Toole palomaotooleillustration. The book that Paloma wrote in class, Their Name is Alex, is available soon from Hachette!
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