**Abstract**

The article analyzes the experience of some illustrators, graduates of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, whose creative program has developed since the beginning of the XXI century. There is a general approach to solving the system "author–text– vision", stylistics, metaphorical and plastic imagery, interpretation of elements of ethnic tradition and modern design technologies. The object of research is the graphics of children's publications of Ukrainian publishers that specialize in publishing books for children. For the first time, the creative work of these artists is analyzed: illustration, decoration, created by means of computer graphics. Children's books of the Lviv edition. The subject of the research is figurative and expressive means of illustrators of Ukrainian children's publications of 2000–2010. The methodological basis is the historical and cultural consideration. Scientific methods will be used in the research: descriptive, historical-genetic analysis, comparative and semantic analysis, and others. (1) Descriptive method, thanks to which we classify the artistic and technical execution of children's books. (2) Comparative analysis will allow us to compare historical and literary sources and research. (3) Semantic analysis, according to which we will trace and compare "textual facts" on the basis of descriptive, historical, comparative methods.

**Keywords:** children's book, illustration, artistic design, stylistics and design, artists, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Lviv Publishing House, Ukraine
