Book Creator Resources 2025

As an annual tradition of Children’s Book Week, esteemed children’s book illustrators are chosen to create bookmarks and other activities that celebrate kid lit and reading. Artists from all over the country have contributed their beautiful and inspiring artwork embracing the theme, An Ocean of Stories.

NEW THIS YEAR: Children’s book authors have also shared their talent in honor of Book Week with five amazing poems/riddles and five story starters. Kids can collaborate with these popular artists and add to the Story Ocean by finishing the stories they have started, reading the poems, and writing their own!

Children’s Book Week Bookmarks

This year’s illustrators are Tamisha Anthony (Penguin Young Readers), Reggie Brown (Scholastic), Sally Deng (Chronicle Books), Emmanuel Guerrero (Flying Eye Books), and Zahra Marwan (Bloomsbury Children’s Books).

These bookmarks are available to print and distribute to children, teens, and book lovers everywhere! Click on each image, then use the right click of the mouse to download, and then print that bookmark or download all here. Learn more about these amazing artists and their books..

Kids can draw their own bookmarks using this last template page!

Children’s Book Week Activity Pages

This year’s activity pages were created by a talented bunch who want to invite you to add to the Story Ocean! Drawing pages, poems, and story starters are available from Alice RL (Portage & Main Press / HighWater Press), Carly Allen-Fletcher (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers), Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster), Jonell Joshua (Levine Querido), Karen Vermeulen (Catalyst Press), Melissa Castrillon (DK), Seng Soon Ratanavanh (Floris Books), Udayana Lugo (Orca Book Publishers), Charlotte Gunnufson (Candlewick Press), John Himmelman (Holiday House), Kaylin Melia George (Red Comet Press), Lawrence Schimel (NorthSouth Books), Cathy Goldberg Fishman (Familius), Aubrey Hartman (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Carly Anne West (Andrews McMeel Publishing), Debra Goldstein (Platypus Media), Leigh Joseph (The Quarto Group), Mary Pope Osborne (Random House Children’s Books), and Maudie-Powell Tuck (Tiger Tales Books).

Activities can be printed and shared with kids everywhere! Click on each image to download and print or download all here. Learn more about these amazing artists and their books.