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unusual facts about picture books



Angela Kincaid

Angela Kincaid, formerly known by her married name of Angela Mills, is a children's book illustrator best known for The Butterfly Children series of picture books.


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Andersen Press

Andersen Press specialises in picture books and children’s fiction and the authors that it publishes include Melvin Burgess, Max Velthuijs, Ralph Steadman, Quentin Blake, Jeanne Willis and Emma Chichester Clark.

Barbara Sleigh

The other writings by Sleigh include novels for older children, notably Jessamy, an intriguingly realistic 1967 time-slip novel; collections of stories; large amounts of radio adaptation; several picture books for younger children; and some educational readers.

Christopher Denise

Christopher Denise is the artist for two of Brian Jacques' Redwall picture books.

Denys Cazet

Denys Cazet (1938-) is the French-American author of 25 picture books, including the Minnie and Moo series.

Ellen Tarry

Tarry published four picture books: 1940's Janie Belle (illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon), 1942's Hezekiah Horton (illustrated by Oliver Harrington), 1946's My Dog Rinty in collaboration with Caldecott Medal winner Marie Hall Ets (photographs by Alexander and Alexandra Alland), concerning a Harlem family and their mischievous pet, and 1950's The Runaway Elephant (again illustrated by Harrington), which continued the relationships started in Hezekiah Horton.

Elliot Moose

Elliot Moose is a series of children's picture books, written and illustrated by Andrea Beck.

Eric Hill

Eric Gordon Hill OBE (born 7 September 1927 in London) is a popular author and illustrator of children's picture books, best known for his character Spot the Dog.

Frog and Toad

Frog and Toad are Friends was the recipient of a Caldecott Honor award; it was also one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.

Gili Bar-Hillel

As well, she also reviewed picture books for the Israeli women's weekly LaIsha for several years.

Hannah Morris

Originally from Vermont, United States, she spent more than five years in Stellenbosch and Cape Town, South Africa, completing postgraduate studies in visual arts at the Stellenbosch University fine arts department, focusing on picture books in South Africa.

Helen Oxenbury

Oxenbury-illustrated picture books were the overall winners for 1989, We're Going on a Bear Hunt retold by Michael Rosen, and for 1991, Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell, another Greenaway runner up.

Jack Bedson

His best-selling children's picture books Don't Get Burnt and SheepDogs, illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, are classic Australian tales of the city and the bush.

Joseph Stanton

In one of his recent books, The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books as Art and Literature, he examines the picture-books of such artist-writers as Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Arnold Lobel, and William Joyce.

Margaret Wise Brown

-- list of works doesn't help, doesn't identify Here and Now or date Noisy; do these even belong here in the account? --> From 1944 to 1946, Doubleday published three picture books written by Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.

Paul Geraghty

There he met John Bush, who would later go on to collaborate with him on three picture books.

Print on demand

The major photo storage services (e.g. Kodak's Ofoto and Shutterfly and HP's Snapfish) have included the ability to produce picture books and calendars.

Quikscript

Book two of the popular Cole's Funny Picture Books, published in Australia by E. W. Cole at the turn of the 20th century, was revised in 1979 to include an article introducing Quikscript under the name Second Shaw.

Sonia Levitin

Sonia Levitin (b. Berlin, August 18, 1934) is an award-winning novelist and author of over forty novels and picture books for young adults and children, as well as published essays on various topics for adults.

Tomislav Torjanac

Torjanac also illustrated a number of picture books, including James Joyce's The Cat and the Devil.