21 July 2015: #PicturesMeanBusiness by Alison Flood in The Guardian
“Where would We’re Going on a Bear Hunt be without Helen Oxenbury’s illustrations of the children’s search, or the Meg and Mog books without Jan Pienkowski’s images of the witch and her cat, or The Gruffalo without Axel Scheffler’s depiction of the monster? But illustrators are not getting the credit they deserve, according to the Carnegie-nominated Sarah McIntyre, who today announced that she would not be buying any new illustrated children’s books unless the front cover includes the artist’s name along with the writer’s.”