News & Accolades

News, clients and awards page of Gal Girl Studio

 

News

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“Radiant artwork has soft pencil and crayon textures and tissue-paper-like layers of bright colors, capturing the coziness of Zachary’s home, their neighborhood’s tropical setting, and the sacred space where a loving, variously inclusive community has gathered to welcome their newest member.”
Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“Featuring vibrant colors, cozy details, and exuberantly swooping brushwork, the illustrations pair perfectly with the text…”
Kirkus Book Reviews, starred review

"Vibrant illustrations depict a synagogue bathed in warmth and light through stained-glass windows and a cheerful neighborhood complete with palm trees and colorful flora; even a rainstorm doesn’t break the joyful mood."
The Horn Book, starred review


Clients

Abrams Appleseed

Alfred A. Knopf Publishing

Andrews McMeel Publishing 

Baltimore Sun 

Barron's 

Better Homes and Gardens 

Bridal Guide Magazine 

Cambridge University Press 

Charlesbridge Publishing

Children's Television Workshop

Crocodile Creek

Disney Hyperion Publishing

Educational Insights 

Girl's Life Magazine 

Harcourt Inc. 

HarperCollins Inc. 

Harvard Magazine 

Houghton Mifflin 

Lands' End Inc. 

Levine Querido

Little, Brown and Company

Marcel Schurman 

Microsoft 

New York Life 

ReadAskChat

Rigby Publishing 

San Francisco Chronicle 

Scholastic Press 

The Plain Dealer 

The Saturday Evening Post 

Wall Street Journal 

Woman's World Magazine

Awards

Dear Stray, winner of the Purrfect Page-Turner Award 2024
Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection, 2023

The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
Winner of the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award
A 2023 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Winner of the 2022 Russell Freedman Non-Fiction Award for a Better World
A Junior Library Guild Gold Medal selection
Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection 2022

Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tale, winner of the 2021 Sydney Taylor Book Award and the 2020 National Jewish Book Award

A World of Cookies for Santa, Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection, 2015

Day by Day, American Illustration 32 selection, 2013

Day by Day, Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection, 2012

Into the Outdoors, 3×3 Picture Book Show 9, 2012

“Market” American Illustration 30, 2011

Please Take Me for a Walk, Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection, 2010

Night Lights, Northern California Book Awards nominee, 2010

Night Lights, Creative Quarterly 16, 2009