| Alik Arzoumanian | alik@alikart.com | Published Works | "Tunjur!Tunjur!Tunjur! A Palestinian Folktale", "So Many Houses", "Where are you little frog?", "Christmas Carols", "Christmas Songs", "Grateful Animals" |
| Amy Schimler | amy@amyschimler.com | Bio | I have been an illustrator and designer for the past ten years selling and licensing my work to a variety of publishers and manufacturers. You may have seen my work on greeting cards, in children's books and magazines, on fabrics and children's clothing as well as children's wall art . My client list includes Scholastic Press, Random House, Highlights, Unicef, Hallmark, Papyrus, Oopsy Daisy, Fisher Price, Pottery Barn Kids, and many more. I love playing with texture, pattern, and color and aim for a naive and playful attitude in my work. When not painting or sitting at my computer you can find me behind a camera lens, on a long nature walk, or daydreaming by the ocean. |
| Ann Remen-Willis | remenwillis@gmail.com | Published Works | MAGAZINES American Girl, Babybug, Boston Magazine, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Ladybug, Southern Living, Spider PUBLISHERS Addison Wesley, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Brainstorm, Benzinger, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Group Publishing, Hampton-Brown/National Geographic, Harcourt School Publishers, Houghton Mifflin, Klutz, Northwestern Publishing House, PCI Educational Publishing, Pearson Education, Picture Window Books, Pleasant Company, Quarasan!, Reader's Digest Books for Young Families, SRA/McGraw-Hill, TCI, WGBH Television, Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, Zaner-Bloser AGENCIES Aptara, Dinardo Design, FDG Creative, GGS Design (formerly Design 5 Creative), JDI Apollo, Mazer, Morgan-Cain, Sallie Baldwin GAMES/PUZZLES Hasbro, Mattel, Ravensberger |
| Anne Catharine Blake | annecatharineblake@gmail.com | Bio | Anne Catharine Blake is a creative blend of Americans and Canadians. Known as Catharine or Cathy to her friends, she grew up half time in Canada on a farm, and half time in the US around the theatre and her grandfather’s commercial art studio.
Her illustrations have appeared in over 60 publications, including children’s books, magazines and newspapers. Her art has also been exhibited in galleries and can be viewed in private and public collections.
Catharine loves to draw and learn exciting new ways to create art, whether it’s with a digital pen on a Wacom Cintiq or on paper and pencil. She is also notorious for sketching on sticky notes and leaving a trail wherever she goes.
Most days, Catharine can be found in her studio on the 3rd floor of the Hala B. Darling House in Upstate New York. With her studio cat, Hala to keep her company, she paints, draws, writes, and teaches art and design online at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh to undergraduate students both in the US and abroad.
Memberships
• Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators, Los Angeles, CA
• Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Education
• MFA, Illustration 2008, Hartford Art School
• MA, Illustration 2006. Syracuse University
• Emily Carr University, 1990's B.C. Canada
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| Barbara Pollak | barbara@happypix.com | Bio | Barbara Pollak is San Francisco based illustrator, author and painter who lives with an assortment of children, animals and fish.
Her clients have included: Girl's Life, Time For Kids, Scholastic, Lerner, Penguin Putnam, Rigby, Rodale Press, Random House, Harcourt Brace and many others. She has also created interactive cards, posters, games and textbook illustrations for children and teen markets. Pollak authored and illustrated a picture book about gardening, community and food called 'Our Community Garden' published by Beyond Words Publishing in 2004.
In 2011, Pollak and her husband co-founded Hard Boiled Industries, a new company which specializes in ipad/iphone/kindle and android based Apps for children.
In her free time she enjoys traveling, painting and collecting all things Japanese. |
| Barbara Spurll | barbara@barbaraspurll.com | Published Works | Carolyn Jones, Theodora Bear, Orca Book Publishers, 2007
Steve Metzger, The Easter Bunny is Missing!, Scholastic Inc., 2007
Margriet Ruurs, Emma at the Fair, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005
Kari Smalley Gibson, Mooki and the Too Proud Peacock, Zondervan Publishing House, 2002
Elizabeth MacLeod, The Wright Brothers: A Flying Start, Kids Can Press, 2002
Margriet Ruurs, Emma's Cold Day, Stoddart Kids, 2001
Kari Smalley Gibson, Mooki the Berry Bandit, Zondervan Publishing House, 2001
Elizabeth MacLeod, Lucy Maud Montgomery: a writer's life, Kids Can Press, 2001
May R. Berenbaum, Buzzwords, Joseph Henry Press, 2000
Margriet Ruurs, Emma and the Coyote, Stoddart Kids, 1999
Elizabeth MacLeod, Alexander Graham Bell: An inventive life, Kids Can Press, 1999
Margriet Ruurs, Emma's Eggs, Stoddart, 1996
Tololwa M. Mollel, The Flying Tortoise, Oxford University Press, 1994, Clarion Books, 1994
Betty Waterton, Mustard, Scholastic Canada, 1992
Tololwa M.Mollel, Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!, Oxford University Press, 1991, Clarion Books, 1992 |
| Bill Basso | billbasso@gmail.com | Bio | I've been an illustrator/cartoonist specializing in children's publishing for over 25 years.
My work has been published by: Random House, Hyperion, Harcourt, Grosset & Dunlap, Boy Scouts of America, HarperCollins, Macmillan McGraw-Hill. Atheneum, Scholastic,
Scholastic Teaching Resources, Cartwheel, Highlights For Children, Pearson, Weekly Reader, Children's TV Workshop and Bantam Doubleday Dell.
Prior to that, my illustrations and cartoons appeared in advertising, magazines; including the NY Times, Esquire, Smithsonian, Premiere and last but not least, Bananas.
During this period, I also designed and illustrated packaging for Colorforms Toys and Avon children's products.
I am now a grandparent of three little guys who provide a wonderful source of material,
inspiration and three new clients to entertain.
SCBWI member.
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| Corey Wolfe | coreyrwolfe@msn.com | Published Works | You may view more work on my website: www.coreywolfe.com
I've been a working artist since 1979. I've designed and painted pieces for dvd video covers, movie posters, point of purchase displays, computer game covers, magazines, children books, toys, and character development.
I've never been late on a job.
A partial client list includes: Disney, Hanna Barbera, Mattel, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, Lisa Frank, Pepsi, Nestles, Time magazine (a cover), NBC, Penguin books, DAW books, Random House, Purina, Amstel, Blockbuster, Kraft, Nestles.
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| Daniel J. Mahoney | danjean@nycap.rr.com | Published Works | The Saturday Escape, Coco The Love Dog
The Perfect Clubhouse, The Happy Hippos
A Really Good Snowman
I See A Monster
Ocean Wonders |
| Dave Sullivan | the.illustrator@celticweb.com | Published Works | Books include: John Glenn in Space Again, Joey Goes to Market, The Treehouse, Ring of Fire, The International Dictionary of Food & Nutrition, The Cardiff Giant, UFOs-Teen Sightings.
Clients include: The Washington Post, Sega Video, Nestle's, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Cengage, Houghton-Mifflin, Harcourt Brace, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, The Robb Report, The Source Sports Magazine, Boston Magazine, Uno's Restaurants, WLVI TV, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Canada Dry, Dunkin' Donuts, Fidelity Investments and Celestial Media, among many others. |
| Dominic Catalano | dominic@annremenwillis.com | Published Works | AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: "Hush: A Fantasy in Verse," Gingham Dog Press, "Mr. Basset Plays," "Santa and the Three Bears," "Frog Went A-Courting," Boyds Mills Press, "Wolf Plays Alone," Philomel Books. ILLUSTRATOR: "Mouse Island," Clink Clank Clunk," "Bernard Wants a Baby," "Bernard Goes to School," "Bernard's Nap," "Bernard's Bath," "Merry Christmas Old Armadillo," "The Reason for the Pelican 35th Anniversiary Edition," Boyds Mills Press, "The Extraordinary Pig of Paris," "the Bear Who Loved Puccini," Philomel Books, "Rise and Shine," Harper Collins, "Rabbit Surprise," Ramdom House, "The Shepard's Christmas Story," "A Tree for Christmas," Concordia, "The Bremen Town Musicians," Reader's Digest, "the Wide World of Suzie Mallard," "A House for Wanda Wood Duck," Ducks Unlimited, "Basil Bear Learns to Tell Time," Basil Bear Goes to Preschool," Basil Bear Goes on a Trip," "Basil Bear Goes to Church," Multnomah Press. MAGAZINES: Spider, Highlights, Ladybug, Turtle, Children's Playmate, Children's Digest, Child Life, Puzzlemania, U.S. Kids, Cricket. EDUCATIONAL: SRA/McGraw Hill, Fluency Readers/McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Creative Teaching Press, Reading Powerworks/Sundance, Wright Group/McGraw Hill, Hampton Brown, Morgan Caine, Metropolitan Teaching and Learning, Scott Foresman, Silver Burdett, Modern Curriculum Press, Macmillian/McGraw Hill. |
| Doug Chayka | doug@dougchayka.com | Published Works | Beekeepers, Yanni Rubbish, The Pink House at the Seashore, Four Feet Two Sandals |
| Jim Caputo | jim@groggydog.com | Bio | Jim graduated from art school in 1986 and began his career as a graphic designer for an ad agency in Philadelphia. After doing work by hand for a few years, he finally acquired a Mac. This allowed him to move on as an art director working for a few design studios along the way.
Illustration has always been his passion and in 1998 he opened Groggy Dog Studios. After sending out a promo piece, he landed an editorial illustration for the Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition. Groggy Dog Studios was up and running. “As a kid,” Jim said, “ I was always reprimanded for daydreaming and now I'm getting paid for it!”
In 2000, he left Philadelphia and moved to Orlando, Florida. While looking for a full-time job, he took the time to develop his technique and experiment with a mixed media of watercolor, pastel, colored pencil, and brushed ink. This allowed for a fresh look and began doing work for magazines such as chickaDEE and Muse.
After nine years of working as an art director by day and illustrator by night, he decided to make illustration a full-time gig in 2007. Jim quips, “My neighbors are convinced I’m hiding under the Federal Witness Protection Program.”
His client list includes The Kennedy Center, Scholastic, Ideals Publications, Norwood House Press, and Harcourt.
In his spare time, he enjoys physical fitness, going to movies, and reading. All of which provide an endless amount of inspiration.
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| julia Woolf | juliawoolf@earthlink.net | Published Works | The Bubble Gum Kid (Running Press)
Theo's Thanksgiving (Price Stern Sloan)
All Gone (Playhouse Publishing)
Squeaky Clean (Playhouse Publishing)
Zane the Train (Kindermusik)
My Pop Pop is a Pirate (Running Press)
Snow Wonder (Random House)
Snowman Surprise (Intervisual Books)
Reindeer Run (Intervisual Books)
Special Star (Intervisual Books)
Gingerbread Joy (Intervisual Books) |
| Layne Johnson | layne@laynejohnson.com | Published Works | Race the Wild Wind: A Story of the Sable Island Horses (Walker Books for Young Readers, 2011)
Christmas Kitten, Home at Last (Albert Whitman & Co., 2010)
The Declaration of Independence from A to Z (Pelican Publishing, 2010)
Off Like the Wind, The First Ride of the Pony Express (Walker Books for Young Readers, 2010)
Damon, Pythias, and the Test of Friendship (Albert Whitman & Co., 2009)
Farmer George Plants a Nation (Boyds Mills Press, 2008)
Remembering Grandpa (Boyds Mills Press)
A Young Man's Dance (Boyds Mills Press)
The Kingfisher Book of Horse and Pony Stories (Houghton Mifflin / Kingfisher, 2005 — anthology, illustrated selected stories)
Young Patriots: Inspiring Stories of the American Revolution (Boyds Mills Press)
Grandparent Poems (Boyds Mills Press)
Where Horses Run Free (Boyds Mills Press)
Christmas for Kitten (Albert Whitman & Co.)
Ben, King of the River (Albert Whitman & Co.)
On the Day His Daddy Left (Albert Whitman & Co.)
Brian's Bird (Albert Whitman & Co.)
The Night Queen's Blue Velvet Dress (Steck-Vaughn)
Abuelito Eats With His Fingers (Eakin Press)
Brad and Butter Play Ball (Random House)
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| Len Ebert | len@annremenwillis.com | Published Works | Highlights for Children, Addison Wesley, Augsburg Fortress, Standard Publishing, Concordia Publishing House, Northwestern Publishing, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill,Group Publishing, Hampton-Brown/National Geograp;hic,Harcourt School Publishers, Houghton Mifflin, PCI Educational Publishing, Pearson Education, Quarasan, Reader's Digest Books for Young Families, SRA/McGrfaw-Hill, TCI, Zaner-Bloser, JDI Apollo, Morgan-Cain, Antler Design Works |
| Lydia Halverson | halverson@bookmakersltd.com | Published Works | Anne's World, Anne of Green Gables, Thumbelina, King's and Queens for God, The Borrowed House, Reb and the Redcoats, Frosty the Snowman, Peter Cottontail's Easter Surprise, Peter Cottontail's Busy Day, I Like Noisey Mom Likes Quiet, Baby Looney Tunes Visit a Haunted House, Stuart Little at the Fun House, Stuart Little Sets Sail, Stuart Little at the Library, Stuar Little Hides Out |
| Melanie Hall | mhallart@netstep.net | Published Works | Over the Riverbank , Shanty Boat, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Weather, On Passover, On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, On Hanukkah, On Sukkot and Simchat Torah, On Shabbat, On Purim, The Seventh Day, Creation, The Magic Pomegranate, Christmas Presents, Hanukkah Lights, I Asked a Tiger to Tea, Over in the Pink House, Wintersong;A Poem by William Shakespeare |
| Meredith Johnson | meredith@annremenwillis.com | Published Works | BOOKS: (from a list of 126) The Bathwater Gang (Little,Brown), The Sub(Dutton),All Tutus Shuld Be Pink(Scholastic),Milo and The Greatest Trick In The World(Mondo), Meet Thomas Jefferdon(Ideals),Gigi, God's Little Princess(Tommy Nelson), My Cowboy Boots(Zonderkidz)
MAGAZINES: Ladybug, Cricket, Spider, Highlights for Children, Weekly Reader, Ideals Magazine, Click, Clubhouse Jr.
PUBLISHERS: Little, Brown, Penguin-Putnam, Dutton, Charlesbridge, David C. Cook, Free Spirit, Harper & Row, Ideals, Mondo, Tommy Nelson, Oxford University Press, Scholastic, Price/Stern/Sloan, Standard Publishing, Treasure Bay,Zonderkidz,McGraw-Hill,Hampton-Brown/National Geographic, World Book, Harcourt, Harcourt School Publishers, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson Education, Quarasan!, Reader's Digest for Young Families, SRA/McGraw-Hill, Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, Leap Frog, Meadowbrook, Meridian, Tyndale, DLM, Avon, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Troll, Pages/Willowisp, Aladdin Paperback
AGENCIES: Aptara, Design 5 Creative(GGS Design), Morgan-Cain, Mattel,6 Red Marbles, Michaeluis Carpelis, Redleaf Press, Sadlier, Taurins Design |
| MIKE BENNY | mbenny@austin.rr.com | Bio | Mike has been illustrating for over 19 years. He has received 3 gold and 3 silver medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York and has been featured in the May/June 1999 Communication Arts Magazine. Some of his Publishing clients are; Harcourt Brace, Simon Schuster, Scholastic, Random House, Hyperion, Sleeping Bear Press and Greenwillow. |
| Mimi Selmi Reed | selmi@selmi.net | Published Works | -"Prayers on my Pillow" - calendar for teenage girls - published by Avalanche Publishing, CA
-"More Prayers on my Pillow" - book cover for teenage girls - published by Random House
-"Frendz Pakz" - character designs and illustrations for award winning kids game cards - published by Swingset Press
-"Library for Children, Cerritos, CA" - Artwork and illustrations for 3-D sculpture
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| Nancy Munger | nancymunger@aol.com | Published Works | Published works with Augsburg Fortress, Bethany House, Barbour Books, Harper & Row, McMillian/McGraw Hill, Intervisual Communications, Oxford Press, Silver Burdett & Ginn, Tommy Nelson, Standard Publishers, Tyndale House, Waterbrook Press, Wiley & Sons and Zondervan Publishers. |
| Patricia Palermino | patpalermino@cox.net | Bio | American folk artist Patricia Palermino has been publishing her unique
collection of prints and note cards for 15 years. Her works are sold in
numerous galleries and are in many private and public collections including
the White House and the American Museum in Bath, England.
Using vibrant colors and a cast of playful characters, Palermino creates an
array of magical scenes that combine a whimsical spirit with a hint of
nostalgia. Each of her pieces is created in her Alexandria studio and proudly
reflects the character and charisma found in many of the United State's most popular cities and landmarks. The happy and detailed images entice viewers of all ages, evoking smiles and pleasant memories.
Palermino's artwork has appeared on many posters and publications
including the program cover of the National Easter Egg Roll at the White
House, the UNICEF Corporate Christmas Card Collection, Historic Alexandria, Gadsby's Tavern Museum, Gunston Hall Museum, Woodlawn Plantation Museum, Winterthur Museum's Point to Point Races, United Card and Exxon of Japan, the National Horticultural Society and others. Original paintings are sold by the Frank J. Miele Gallery in New York City.
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| Renate Lohmann | renate@annremenwillis.com | type of art work | watercolor, gouache, blackline, children, child, kids, people, animals, animal, fun, painterly, whimsical, colorful, educational, trade, architectural, building, buildings, house, houses, landscape, maps |
| Sheli Petersen | sheli@spetersenillustration.com | Published Works | Billy the Patriot Mouse—illustration series for the National Heritage Museum, Gigi and the Birthday Ring published by Renaissance House, Voladores published by McGraw-Hill, Itza—The Boy Who Rode a Jaguar published by Laredo Publishing, Magali—An Aztec Legend about Good Fortune published by Laredo Publishing |
| srnoble | steve@stevennoble.com | Published Works | Logos and ad campaigns for a large list of prestigious and high caliber clients such as Coors (corporate/packaging logo), Exxon-Mobil (stock certificate), JP Morgan (annual report) and Mercedes-Benz (ad campaigns), and the recently added "White House" Logo 2008. Acclaimed Children's book "Zathura" which came out (Fall 2005) at the same time as the release of the movie "Zathura". Other published works include: Mercedez-BenzSalvaggio'sNew York Las VegasAnnheiser-BuschLand's EndNorthrup-GrummanCoorsCrystalNewport NationalJP MorganGarden of LifeWelch'sExxon-MobilHewlett-PackardStolpman VineyardAlvita TeaBeaulieu VineyardsNature MadeAlbertson'sFederal ReserveCakebreadArby'sCapital TrustMiller LightDel MontePharmalearnHaggen Inc.PepsiUnion Bank of CaliforniaOrtho VitrosLowenbrauFetzerWillow CovePete's Wicked AleFrancisco BreadEstate CellarsRonzoni PastaMidfirst BankVilla Mt. EdenOre-Ida |
| Susan Lawson | susan@susan-lawson.com | Bio | Susan is a graduate of the BFA program, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Ladybug, Click, Highlights High Five, Family Fun, Weekly Reader, Good Housekeeping, Money, and Ladies Home Journal. She enjoys gardening, photography, writing, and walking her dog. |