Graphic novels for children
Graphic novels for children with titles by Dav Pilkey, Kazu Kibuishi, Rick Riordan, Mary Pope Osborne, Erin Hunter, Noelle Stevenson, Victoria Jamieson, Jen Wang, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Alexander.
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Abhi Alwar is an illustrator and designer whose work spans children’s picture books and early graphic novels. She illustrated Cheryl B. Klein’s picture book Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates (Dial Books for Young Readers, November 2, 2021) and collaborated with Rajani LaRocca on Summer Is for Cousins (Abrams Books for Young Readers, May 16, 2023) and its follow-up, Fall Is for Beginnings (Abrams Books for Young Readers, August 5, 2025). Her picture book credits also include Ame Dyckman’s Don’t Blow Your Top! (Orchard Books/Scholastic, October 17, 2023).
Alwar is the series illustrator of Megan Wagner Lloyd’s graphic novels Super Pancake (Knopf Books for Young Readers, February 14, 2023) and Super Pancake and the Mini Muffin Mayhem (Knopf Books for Young Readers, June 4, 2024); additional titles in the series include Super Pancake and the Terrible Toast. Her work features bright, character-led compositions and visual humor suited to read-alouds and emerging readers.
In addition to trade publishing, Alwar creates comics and illustration for events and school visits. She is represented by Alexandra Levick at Writers House.
Graphic novels for children with titles by Dav Pilkey, Kazu Kibuishi, Rick Riordan, Mary Pope Osborne, Erin Hunter, Noelle Stevenson, Victoria Jamieson, Jen Wang, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Alexander.
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