Before I had the manual dexterity to draw I entertained people with my Groucho Marx impersonation. Once I was old enough to control how a pencil makes marks on a piece of paper, I diverted my creative energy from Groucho impersonating to drawing. I always loved to draw. On rainy days I would spend hours...
Valeri Gorbachev is the author and illustrator of a number of children’s books, both in the United States and Europe, including Nicky And The Big Bad Wolves and Where is the Apple Pie? Mr. Gorbachev immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine in 1991 and now lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
I was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1944. Even as a little child, I was always busy putting books together. Sometimes I would bind them with yarn to hold the pages together. I’ve always loved drawing and painting. I was also a very curious child. My parents tell me that I was always asking...
Stan Fellows has been an illustrator for thirty five years, painting for magazines, corporate clients, and children’s books. Clients from the past two years include: Martha Stewart Living, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Audubon, National Geographic, Field & Stream, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYU, Notre Dame, United...
An entire industry has grown up around Mary Engelbreit, but it all began with a young girl who just wanted to draw pictures. Mary moved into her first “studio,” a hastily vacated linen closet in the St. Louis home where she grew up, when she was just 11 years old. “We jammed a desk and...
Jeffrey Ebbeler has been creating award winning art for children for over a decade. He has illustrated more than 40 picture books. He worked as an Art Director for the children’s book department of Publication’s International in Chicago for 6 years. He writes and illustrates the monthly comic series Nestor’s Dock for Ask magazine. He...
