Scott Westerfeld Faith Ringgold - Biography Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ms Ringgold is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego where she taught art from 1987 until 2002. Professor Ringgold is the recipient of more than 75 awards including 22 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees. She has received fellowships and grants that include the National Endowment For the Arts Award for sculpture (1978) and for painting (1989); The La Napoule Foundation Award for painting in France (1990); The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for painting (1987); The New York Foundation For the Arts Award for painting (1988); The American Association of University Women for travel to Africa (1976); The Creative Artists Public Service Award for painting (1971). New! Click here to download Faith Ringgold's Chronology. Click here to download a larger version of Faith's Portrait.
Shel Silverstein Welcome to the world of Robert Quackenbush - animator -artist -teacher & writer of children's books Rick Riordan PATRICIA POLACCO .COM Terry Pratchett Larry Finlay, MD at Transworld Publishers: “I was deeply saddened to learn that Sir Terry Pratchett has died. The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds. In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: he did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention. Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ‘embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely. My sympathies go out to Terry’s wife Lyn, their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to him.” Terry passed away in his home, with his cat sleeping on his bed surrounded by his family on 12th March 2015. A Just Giving page donating to the Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE) has been set up in his memory:
All About Robert Munsch | The Official Website of Robert Munsch I was born on June 11, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I grew up in a family of 9 kids. At least, that is where I lived when I was young. When I was 12 my older brother kicked me in the mouth the day after I got my braces off. I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, fourth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me, and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I did, however, all through elementary school, write poetry. I studied for 7 years to be a Jesuit priest, only to find that I was lousy priest material. While I was studying to be a Jesuit priest, I worked part-time at an orphanage to escape from deadly classes in philosophy. After I had been in daycare for awhile I decided to learn something about what I was supposed to be doing, so I went back to school for a year at the Elliot Pearson School of Child Studies at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. So I became a writer. Oh WoW! 1. Mrs.
Darren Shan - Author of the Darren Shan Saga and The Demonata The Crockett Johnson Homepage Barnaby Volume One: 1942-1943 In 2013, Fantagraphics published Barnaby Volume One: 1942-1943, which I co-edited with Eric Reynolds. It's the first of a 5-volume series that will collect all of Barnaby in its original run (1942-1952). Daniel Clowes designed the book, and it features essays from Chris Ware, Jeet Heer, Dorothy Parker, and me. My blog has yet more information about the Biography, Crockett Johnson, Ruth Krauss, and Barnaby. Adam Rubin Joan Holub
Matt de la Peña Anna Grossnickle Hines_Children's Author & Illustrator