If, as one children's writer has said, the golden rule of publishing for children is "no pictures means no book," then the illustrator of a children's book must be considered at least as important as its author.
兒童文學家林良曾說，「無畫不成書」已經是兒童讀物的黃金律，所以在兒童文學世界裡，畫家和作家一般重要。