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Michael Garland was
born in Manhattan and grew up there and on Staten Island. He spent
his childhood roaming the woods, playing sports, crossing the street
without looking both ways, and drawing. Drawing was the thing he did
best, and after high school, he went Pratt Institute to study art.
Soon after graduating, he sold his first illustration to True
Confessions magazine, the beginning of a thirty-two-
year
career of illustrating everything you can imagine. Sixteen years
ago, he decided he wanted to be a writer as well as an artist. And
since then he has authored and illustrated twenty-one published
books, as well as illustrated twenty-five for other authors, among
them Gloria Estefan and James Patterson. His illustrations for
Patterson’s story “Santakid,” were the inspiration for Saks Fifth
Avenue’s Christmas windows. Along the way he married Peggy and had
three children, Katie, Alice and Kevin. He lives with his family in
Putnam County, New York.
SUSANNA GRETZ
Susanna Gretz has
written and illustrated children’s picture books since the late
1960s—most
recently for Walker Books in London, where she lives. They are
published by Candlewick in the United States. Her mother, Helen
Tennant, lives in Cornwall.
BRIAN KARAS
G. Brian Karas was
born George Brian Karas in Milfo
rd, Connecticut in 1957. He is the
prolific and versatile illustrator and writer of many children’s
books including
On Earth, Today
and Today; Atlantic, an ALA Notable book; Saving Sweetness
by Diane Stanley; the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor title Home
on the Bayou; and Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! He lives with
his family in the Hudson Valley of New York.
In 1940, Dorothy Kunhardt created a little
book for her daughter, Edith. The book, Pat the Bunny,
started a new trend in children's writing and has since become one
of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over seven
million copies. Barbara Bader, in
American Picture Books, speaks of K
unhardt's “noble nonsense that, like Lear's, could be
at once ridiculous and poignant.” Edith Kunhardt Davis has followed
in her mother's footsteps, authoring seventy-seven children's books
and illustrating twenty-five. Some of her work has built on Dorothy
Kunhardt's model, with immensely popular sequels such as
Pat the Cat
and
Pat the Puppy,
while other books include
I'm Going to Be a Police Officer, Pompeii—Buried Alive!
and
Honest Abe, which was honored by the New York Times in 1998.
JEAN MARZOLLO
Jean Marzollo is the award winning
author of over 100 books, including the best-selling I Spy
books and the Shanna Show books. Her recent passion is
illustrating 
her
own books, such as Greek myths, including Pandora’s Box and
Let’s Go Pegasus! Other recent books she has both written and
illustrated are: Little Bear, You're A Star; Daniel in the Lions’
Den; Miriam and Her Brother Moses; David and Goliath; and Ten
Little Eggs. She lives in Cold Spring, New York.
at
the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been exhibiting his prints and
paintings in New York and internationally since 1952. He has
illustrated over eighty books, for both the broad public and limited
editions, including one with the poet Marianne Moore published by
the Museum of Modern Art. He is the recipient of numerous grants and
awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from the
Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Academy. Also a jazz
drummer, he lives in Cornwall.
Until she decided missing school was too disruptive and she wanted
to become a normal teenager, Giselle Potter performed and traveled
with her sister Chloe and her parents’ puppet theater, The Mystic
Paper Beasts. After high s
chool and before attending Rhode Island
School of Design, she went to Indonesia by herself and studied
Balinese miniature paintings. Later, in Rome, she painted lots of
pictures of saints. Cornwall’s own Anne Schwartz
offered her a first children’s book, Mr. Semolina-Semolinus,
and she has illustrated over twenty since, including The Year I
Didn’t Go to School, about the experience of doing street
theater in the piazzas of Europe with her parents. Her latest
endeavors are The Boy Who Loved Words (2006), and The
Littlest Grape Stomper (2007). Giselle now lives in the Hudson
Valley with her husband, a furniture maker, and her two daughters
Pia and Isabel, who are just discovering for themselves the endless
joy of making pictures.
JAMES RANSOME
A graduate of Pratt Institute, James Ransome recently
completed three murals for the National Underground Railroad Museum
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is both an illustrator and painter, with
work exhibited in both private and public art collections. His
exhibit Visual Stories has been appearing in galleries and
museums throughout the country
since 2003. In addition to painting and lecturing, James has
illustrated over forty books. His Sky Boys received a 2006
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has also received the Pratt
Institute Alumni Achievement Award, the Coretta Scott King award,
the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance Award, as well as
recognition from the NAACP, the Society of Illustrators and several
Hudson Valley area institutions. A professor at Syracuse University,
James lives in Rhinebeck, New York with his wife, Lesa and four
children.
MARC SIMONT
Marc Simont has illustrated nearly a hundred books for
children and worked with authors as diverse as Ruth Krauss, J
ames
Thurber, and City Lansing. He is the winner of both the Caldecott
Honor and the Caldecott Medal. His most recent books include
Secret Lives of Walter Mitty and James Thurber,
The Stray Dog (which he wrote and illustrated), and The Goose
That Almost Got Cooked. He started contributing political
cartoons to the Lakeville Journal during the Eisenhower
years, and has continued doing so on and off ever since. These
drawings, he notes, are opinions, not editorial cartoons.
ELWOOD SMITH
DIRK ZIMMER
Dirk Zimmer has illustrated about thirty-five books for
children and is currently writing
and illustrating another one,
titled Miss Marabou’s Class. He is
also ghost-writing a book for Richard Z. Rodent titled Why Humans
Disgust Me.
DAN YACCARINO
Whether it’s his award-winning illustrations for magazines,
his popular children’s books, his unique imagery in advertising
campaigns, exhibitions of his paintings, or his animated television
series, Dan Yaccarino’s work
has been enjoyed by millions around the
world. Dan has worked with such prestigious children’s authors as
Margaret Wise Brown, Jack Prelutsky, Kevin Henkes and Naomi Shabib
Nye. He has published dozens of books and been invited to the White
House to share his books and participate in the annual Easter
festivities. He is also the creator and producer of the whimsical
world of Oswald, an animated television series for preschoolers
seen by children everywhere. His new series, Willa's Wild Life,
based on his book, An Octopus Followed Me Home, will premiere on
the Discovery Channel in 2008. Currently he is writing and
illustrating more books and developing more television and feature
film projects.
Canadian born Barry
Blitt is an illustrator whose work has appeared in and on the cover
of the New Yorker, as well as many other magazines and books. He has
illustrated tw
o children’s books, the newest of which is The 39
Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven, which received a
starred review from Publishers Weekly, and Once Upon a
Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds), called "hilarious" in a
starred review by Booklist. Barry is a recent resident of
Washington, CT.
Over
the past thirty-some-odd years, Sandra Boynton has created over
4,000 greeting card designs for Recycle Paper Greetings, and has
written and illustrated forty-three books, published by Workman
Publishing and Simon & Schuster.
More
recently, she has turned to songwriting and music producing. Her
current project is Blue Moo: 16 Jukebox Hits from Way Back Never,
with performances by Neil Sedaka, Patti LuPone, Brian Wilson, Davy
Jones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Five for Fighting. The Norman
Rockwell Museum will present a Boynton retrospective in the winter
of 2009. Ms. Boynton lives and works chaotically in Salisbury.
Carl
Chaiet was born and educated in Manhattan. He has worked in many med
iums,
but prefers the beauty and depth of ink and water. His drawings
attempt to bridge the gap between fine art and classic illustration,
reflecting his interest in architecture and perspective. He teamed
with his wife, Lynn Kearcher to create the visually intricate
illustrations for his two children’s books, Being Earnest and
It Could Have Been A Rose.
VICTORIA CHESS
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Michael Chesworth has worked in book publishing for over twenty years. Since going freelance in 1990 he has illustrated over thirty picture books for children and written three. Among these are Alphaboat (2002), Archibald Frisby (1994,) and Investor McGregor (2006), chosen by Bank Street College as one of the best picture books of the year. He is the illustrator of the omnibus edition of the well-
loved Pippi books by
Astrid Lindgren. His watercolor paintings range in style from the
humorous cartoons of Fluffy, Scourge of the Sea (2005) to
Jingle the Brass (2004), a ride into the world of old-time
railroading. He is a regular contributor to
Cricket, Spider
and Ladybug magazines. His most recent book is Princess
Justina Albertina, by Ellen Dee Davidson (2007, Charlesbridge).
Michael Chesworth lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife,
two children, two cats and one very silly dog.
LAURA CORNELL
Born, raised and
educated in California, Laura Cornell headed east to the land of
publishing, New York City. Her work has appeared in many
publications, including ones which no longer exist and some you've
never heard of. Ones you
might
recognize: American Girl, Family Circle, New York magazine, The
New York Times, Scholastic, Seventeen, Sports Illustrated. Most
of her work now has shifted to children's books, with titles by Leah
Komaiko (Annie Bananie, Earl's Too Cool for Me, Leonora O'Grady),
Phyllis Root, and Sally Cook. She is now working on her eighth book
by Jamie Lee Curtis. Laura is the only person she knows who has
never had an idea for a children's book. She works and lives with
her daughter, Lilly, in the same apartment she found thirty years
ago when she arrived in New York.
Etienne Delessert was born in 1941 in Switzerland, and now lives in Lakeville, Connecticut, with his wife Rita Marshall and their son Adrien. For more than thirty years this self-taught artist has been translating his—and the world’s—ideas, passions, fantasies and nightmares into the visual language of books, magazine illustrations, posters, animated films, paintings and sculptures. He has illustrated more than eighty books, some translated in 14 languages From his collaborations with such writers as Eugène Ionesco and Jean Piaget to his more recent award-winning A Long Long Song: Ashes, Ashes: Dance! he is considered one of the fathers of modern children’s picture books. He has been honored by the Premio Grafico of the Bologna World Children’s Book Fair (twice), by many medals from the American Society of Illustrators, and the 1996 Hamilton King Award. His one-man retrospective hung at the Musée des Arts decoratifs, in the Louvre; other retrospectives have traveled widely across Europe and the United States.
ANNA DEWDNEY
Anna Dewdney has illustrated over twenty-five books
for both children and adults, including What You Do Is Easy, What
I Do Is Hard, and several Matt Christopher
books. When Llama
Llama Red Pajama, the first picture book she both wrote and
illustrated, was published in 2005, Kirkus Reviews wrote that it was “bound to
become a comical classic oft-requested at bedtime.”
Anna’s second book, Grumpy Gloria, about a very crabby
bulldog, was released in Fall 200. Upcoming titles include Llama
Llama Mad at Mama (Fall 2007), and Nobunny’s Perfect
(Spring 2008). Anna regularly visits schools and libraries to
discuss her work and how picture books are created.
Brooklyn-based
Barbara Ensor grew up zigzagging across the Atlantic Ocean as her
family established homes in the United States, then England, then
back to the United States, and so on. As an adult her career has
similarly zigzagged between expressing herself with words, and with
pictures. Only recently, with the 2006 publication of Cinderella
(As If You Didn't Already Know the Story), has she found a way
to happily combine both of these passions, Barbara's pictures have
appeared
in publications including Harper’s, Sports Illustrated and
the New York Times. Her second book for children,
Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride, will be published in June 2008.
Barbara and her children Georgia and Dexter have spent more than ten
summers in Cornwall. As the archivist for Yelping Hill Association.
she enjoyed hearing member's stories about Maurice Sendak's
participation in that a community many decades ago. In addition to
writing and illustrating books. Barbara now teaches stop motion clay
animation, also known as claymation.
VALORIE FISHER
Valorie Fisher is the author and illustrator of several children’s
books, most recently How High Can a Dinosaur Count? Her other
books include
Ellsworth’s
Extraordinary Electric Ears: And Other Amazing Alphabet Anecdotes;
Nonsense!; My Big Brother; and My Big Sister. Valorie
Fisher’s photographs have been widely exhibited and are in many
museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum, London’s Victoria
and Albert Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
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