Beth Krommes (born 1956) is an American

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. Her work has won several honors, including the 2002

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 ...

and the 2009

Caldecott Medal The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Servic ...

Biography

Krommes was born in Pennsylvania in 1956. She attended

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

, where she earned a BFA in painting, and the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

, where she earned an MAT in art education. She has been illustrating children's books since 1989. Her illustrations for ''

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'' won her the 2001

for picture book illustration. In 2009, she won the

for her work on '' The House in the Night''. She is married, has two daughters and lives in

Peterborough, New Hampshire Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,418 at the 2020 census. The main village, with 3,090 people at the 2020 census, is defined as the Peterborough census-designated place (CDP) and ...

. * ''

Grandmother Winter ''Grandmother Winter'' is a 1999 picture book written by Phyllis Root and illustrated by Beth Krommes. ''Grandmother Winter'' was Krommes' first illustrated book. The story is drawn from German fairy tales and describes the seasons. About ''Gr ...

'', written by Phyllis Root ( Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999) * ''The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish'', Jacqueline Briggs Martin (HM, 2001) * ''The Sun in Me: Poems About the Planet'' (Cambridge:

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, 2003), anthology, ed. Judith Nicholls, 40 pp., * ''The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies and Other Secret Beings'', Lise Lunge-Larsen (HM, 2004), 72 pp. * ''Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow'', Joyce Sidman (HM, 2006) * '' The House in the Night'', Susan Marie Swanson (HM, 2008) * ''Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature'', Joyce Sidman (HM, 2011) * ''Blue on Blue'', Dianne White ( Beach Lane Books) – September 2014, * ''Before Morning'', Joyce Sidman (HMH, 2016)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krommes, Beth 1956 births American children's book illustrators Caldecott Medal winners Syracuse University alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education alumni Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) People from Peterborough, New Hampshire