Jamie Smart, Jim Field and Sir Quentin Blake make The Bookseller's Top 30 Illustrators of 2022!

United Agents' illustrators scoop three spots in The Bookseller's Top 30 Illustrators of 2022! The chart shows the top 1,000 titles by volume from Nielsen BookScan’s Pre-School & Picture Books, Children’s & YA Fiction and Children’s Non-Fiction categories combined, with illustrators manually added by The Bookseller’s charts and data editor Kiera O’Brien, and then sorted by value to create the top 30. Jamie Smart takes 11th place, having sold 222,190 books last year, with Jim Field at 14th, with 220,103 books sold, and Sir Quentin Blake at 18th, with a grand annual sale of books standing at 211,039. [source: The Bookseller - Spotlight - Oseman leaps in illustrator chart after record year but Scheffler retains top spot]