James E. Ransome

Agent: Erica Rand Silverman

James E. Ransome, illustrator and author was most recently awarded the 2023 Children’s Literature Legacy Award honoring an author or illustrator whose books have made a significant and lasting contribution to literature for children.

He has also been named by The Children’s Book Council as one of seventy-five authors and illustrators everyone should know. Currently a member of the Society of Illustrators, Ransome has received both the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and the IBBY Honor Award for his book, The Creation. He has also received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award for Illustration forUncle Jed’s Barbershop which was selected as an ALA Notable Book and is currently being shown as a feature on Reading Rainbow. How Many Stars in the Sky? and Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt were also Reading Rainbow selections. PBS’s Storytime featured his book, The Old Dog. Ransome has exhibited works in group and solo shows throughout the country and received The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance award for his book, The Wagon.  James is a professor and fine artist and lives in New York’s Hudson River Valley region with his family. 

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