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Susan Jeffers (illustrator)
Susan Jeffers (October 7, 1942 – January 28, 2020) was an American children's book illustrator. A New Jersey-born 1964 graduate of Pratt Institute, her first commercial success came in 1974, when she was honoree (runner-up) of the Caldecott Medal for illustrating ''Three Jovial Huntsmen'', her own adaptation of a Mother Goose rhyme which had previously been illustrated by the eponymous Randolph Caldecott. Many of Jeffers' illustrations were of animals, especially horses. Some of her publications married her original illustrations to a previously published text used verbatim or adapted, sometimes by Jeffers herself. Otherwise, she frequently collaborated with writer and illustrator Rosemary Wells, who said each tried "to compensate for the other’s weaknesses and to amplify the other’s strength". In 1989, Jeffers' paintings in Wells' ''Forest of Dreams'' won the Golden Kite Award The Golden Kite Awards are given annually by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustr ...
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Children's Book Illustration
Children's book illustration is a subfield of book illustration, and a genre of art associated with children's literature. Children's books with illustrations are often known as picture books. Illustrations contribute to the children's development and provides them with aesthetic impressions. History With the development of printing, the first illustrated books for children began to appear. At first they were primarily religious texts, grammar books, and works about good behavior. According to Cynthia Burlingham. the first books with illustrations that could be read for children were collections of fairy tales, especially ''Aesop's Fables'' (first English edition in 1484 by William Caxton), which soon became one of the most popular illustrated books for children. Another early example of an illustrated book for children was ''Fabulae Centum'' (1564) by Gabriel Faerno, William Feaver, however, named '' Orbis Pictus'' from 1658 by John Amos Comenius as the earliest illus ...
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1942 Births
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Pratt Institute Alumni
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American Women Children's Writers
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2020 Deaths
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Golden Kite Award
The Golden Kite Awards are given annually by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, an international children's writing organization, to recognize excellence in children’s literature. The award is a golden medallion showing a child flying a kite. Instituted in 1973, the Golden Kite Awards are the only children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers. Eligible books must be written or illustrated by SCBWI members, and submitted either by publishers or individuals. The award currently recognizes literature in seven categories: "Young Reader and Middle Grade Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Nonfiction Text for Young Readers, Nonfiction text for Older Readers, Picture Book Text, Picture Book Illustration, and Illustration for Older Readers." Winners are chosen by a panel of judges consisting of children’s book writers and illustrators. In addition to the Golden Kite Award winners, honor book recipients are named by the judges. Since 2006, each category's wi ...
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New Jersey
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Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells (born January 29, 1943) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. She often uses animal characters to address real human issues. Some of her most well-known characters are Max & Ruby and Timothy from Timothy Goes to School (both were later adapted into Canadian-animated preschool television series, the former’s airing on Nickelodeon (part of the Nick Jr. block) and the latter’s as part of PBS Kids on PBS). Background & Career Wells was born in New York City and raised in Red Bank, New Jersey. Her mother was a ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and her father was a playwright. She began drawing at age two. Wells' family encouraged her artistic talents and love of stories. "Reading stories aloud was as much a part of my childhood as the air I breathed," she recalled. When Wells was nineteen, she attended the Boston Museum School, where she studied illustration. Before becoming an author and illustrator, Wells worked as an art edit ...
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Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott ( ; 22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognised by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years. Caldecott also illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and out, and exhibited sculptures and paintings in oil and watercolour in the Royal Academy and galleries. Early life Caldecott was born at 150 Bridge Street (now No 16), Chester, where his father, John Caldecott, was an accountant, twice married with thirteen children. Caldecott was his father' ...
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