David Slonim

David Michael Slonim is an artist and children’s author/illustrator.

David’s children’s books have won many awards, including a NY Times Best Illustrated Books selection, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold, and a Pottery Barn selection. He is the creator of HE CAME WITH THE COUCH, which has been translated into five languages and is in production as an animated short for German television and German-speaking audiences across Europe.

David earned a bachelor’s degree in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1988). Following a decade creating images for clients like Reader’s Digest, IBM, UPS, Tony’s Frozen Pizza, and T.G.I.Fridays, he stopped making art for corporate and advertising clients in order to focus on children’s books and abstract painting.

When not behind the easel or writing a story, David teaches painting workshops and speaks to school, university and professional audiences about creativity, writing, and life as a professional artist.

Learn more at DavidSlonim.com.

OUR WHITE HOUSE. Illustration © 2008 by David Slonim. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
OUR WHITE HOUSE. Illustration © 2008 by David Slonim. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.

More Books by David Slonim

Digger, Dozer, Dumper by Hope Vestergaard (Candlewick Press)

It’s a Dog’s Life: How Man’s Best Friend Sees, Hears, and Smells the World by Susan Goodman (Flash Point)

How to Teach a Slug to Read by Susan Pearson (Two Lions)

Silly Tilly (Marshall Cavendish) (2009)

You Think it’s Easy Being The Tooth Fairy? by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt (Chronicle Books)

Haym Salomon: American Patriot by Susan Goldman Rubin (Abrams)

Who Swallowed Harold? by Susan Pearson (Marshall Cavendish)

Squeal and Squawk by Susan Pearson (Marshall Cavendish)

Emily and Albert by Jan Ormerod (Chronicle Books)

Old Jake’s Skirts by C. Anne Scott (Rising Moon)