Vanessa Brantley Newton is a largely self-taught artist, and took classes at both the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts in fashion and children's book illustration. Vanessa is the illustrator of the Scholastic book series Ruby and The Booker Boys and Tori Spelling’s debut picture book Presenting…Tallulah. She wrote and illustrated Let Freedom Sing and Don’t Let Aunt Mabel Bless the Table, both published by Blue Apple Books. Her forthcoming books include Magic Trash, from Charlesbridge, about the Heidelberg Project in Michigan, and a collaboration with Bob Marley’s daughter Cedella, from Chronicle Books.
Client List
Aladdin Books
American Girl
Bloomsbury
Blue Apple Books
Charlesbridge
Chronicle
Cricket Magazine
Focus on the Family
Harcout Children's Books
Houghton Mifflin Harcout
Hyperion
National Geographic
Penguin Books
Scholastic
Simon and Schuster
Tricycle Press
Don't Let Aunt Mabel Bless the Table, Blue Apple Press
Ruby's New Home, Simon Spotlight
Reviews
Praise for Let Freedom Sing:
A picture book that will encourage adults and preschoolers to sing along together...The portraits and crowd scenes in the bright, handsome collage artwork honor both the [Civil Rights] movement's leaders and its ordinary people who "let their light shine."
—Booklist
