steven salerno

illustration for incredible stories

  • bio/contact
    • steven's bio
    • list of published picture books
    • list of clients
    • links/social media
    • Steven's e-promos
    • contact
  • fiction books
    • It Simply Can't Be Bedtime!
    • MADELINE series
    • Tim's Goodbye
    • Coco the Carrot
    • Wild Child
    • Goldenlocks & the 3 Pirates
    • Holly Jolly/Funny Honey
    • Harry Hungry!
    • Pantaloon
    • Little Tumbo
    • Puppy Princess
    • Bebe Goes Shopping/To Beach
    • Mathematickles
    • BOOM!
    • Go-Go Baby!
    • Mrs Wow Never Wanted a Cow
    • The Dirty Little Boy
    • 19 Girls and Me
    • Bedtime!
    • Chicken Chuck
    • Counting Our Way to 100th Day
    • Stampede!
  • nonfiction books
    • On the Corner of Chocolate Ave
    • Gizmos, Gadgets and Guitars
    • Secret Code Inside You
    • The Crayon Man
    • PRIDE/Harvey Milk
    • Wild Horse Annie
    • Brothers at Bat
    • Pass Go & Collect $200
    • Kid from Diamond Street
    • Fantastic Ferris Wheel
  • illustration
    • editorial & advt
    • just food & drink
    • more kids stuff
    • retro
    • book covers
    • dark visions
    • sci-fi doodles
  • process
    • -nonfiction picture books
  • spotlight
  • golf
    • Steven's golf art: selected images
  • new blog
  • old blog
    • steven's bio
    • list of published picture books
    • list of clients
    • links/social media
    • Steven's e-promos
    • contact
    • It Simply Can't Be Bedtime!
    • MADELINE series
    • Tim's Goodbye
    • Coco the Carrot
    • Wild Child
    • Goldenlocks & the 3 Pirates
    • Holly Jolly/Funny Honey
    • Harry Hungry!
    • Pantaloon
    • Little Tumbo
    • Puppy Princess
    • Bebe Goes Shopping/To Beach
    • Mathematickles
    • BOOM!
    • Go-Go Baby!
    • Mrs Wow Never Wanted a Cow
    • The Dirty Little Boy
    • 19 Girls and Me
    • Bedtime!
    • Chicken Chuck
    • Counting Our Way to 100th Day
    • Stampede!
    • On the Corner of Chocolate Ave
    • Gizmos, Gadgets and Guitars
    • Secret Code Inside You
    • The Crayon Man
    • PRIDE/Harvey Milk
    • Wild Horse Annie
    • Brothers at Bat
    • Pass Go & Collect $200
    • Kid from Diamond Street
    • Fantastic Ferris Wheel
    • editorial & advt
    • just food & drink
    • more kids stuff
    • retro
    • book covers
    • dark visions
    • sci-fi doodles
    • -nonfiction picture books
  • spotlight
    • Steven's golf art: selected images
  • new blog
  • old blog
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  A look back in time to 1906 -street sign on the corner of Chocolate & Cocoa Avenues in the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.   On the Corner of Chocolate Avenue -How Milton Hershey Brought Mil
       
     
steven's picture books / On the Corner of Chocolate Ave
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  (cropped view) an early 1950’s Rock n Roll musician playing one of Leo Fender’s innovative, slim, solid body electric guitars, The  Telecaster …   Gizmos, Gadgets and Guitars -The Leo Fender St
       
     
steven's picture books / Gizmos, Gadgets and Guitars
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  spread illustration… The DNA coding within each and every one of your billions of cells act as the building blocks that make  you  -both on the inside and the outside.   The Secret Code Inside
       
     
steven's picture books / Secret Code Inside You
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  (cropped view)  Edwin Binney  in his dark, gritty, smoke-filled factory that produced black inks, black dyes, and black pigments for industrial uses, day after day after day…   The Crayon Man
       
     
steven's picture books / The Crayon Man
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  designer Gilbert Baker creating the very first Rainbow Flags   PRIDE The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag  -written by  Rob Sanders  & illustrated by  Steven Salerno  published by
       
     
steven's picture books / PRIDE/Harvey Milk
  above:  Wild mustangs on the American western plains   Wild Horse Annie -Friend of the Mustangs , written by  Tracey Fern  & illustrated by  Steven Salerno  -published by  Farrar Straus Giroux , 2019   The inspiring true story of American  Velm
       
     
steven's picture books / Wild Horse Annie
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  neighborhood kids gather in the first days of spring to play some backyard baseball together, in a small seaside town in New Jersey back in the late 1920's.   Brothers at Bat  -written by  Audr
       
     
steven's picture books / Brothers at Bat
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  The Parker Brothers game company rejecting Liz Magie’s early version of MONOPOLY, named “The Landlord’s Game,” with a big NO.   PASS GO and Collect $200 -The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Inve
       
     
steven's picture books / Pass Go & Collect $200
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  the original art used on the book jacket cover   The Kid from Diamond Street  -written by  Audrey Vernick  & illustrated by  Steven Salerno  published by  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016.
       
     
steven's picture books / Kid from Diamond Street
 click upper right corner of images to enlarge   above:  workers atop the in-progress construction of the gigantic "Ferris Wheel" -with the fairground buildings of the 1893 World's Fair (named "White City") seen far below.   The Fantastic Ferris Whee
       
     
steven's picture books / Fantastic Ferris Wheel