directory of children's illustration

Contact Information

First Name

Barbara

Last Name

Pollak

Street Address

630 San Bruno Ave.

City

San Francisco

State

CA

Country

United States

personal web address

http://www.happypix.com

Artist Representative Web Address

http://www.happypix.com

type of art work

digital, pencil, oil, acrylic, chalk, collage, pen and ink

Published Works

Our Community Garden, Dish (series), Mallory MacDonald series, Girlstuff, Write Now, Dangles and Bangles, Bella's Mystery Deck, Barefoot in Fire

Bio

Barbara Pollak is an Illustrator, Painter and Author who lives in the sunny Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband, their young children, one cat, two tropical fish, one frog and thirty thousand honey bees.

Since becoming a full time freelancer in 1995, her work has appeared in publications like Fortune, Seventeen, Girl's Life, Time For Kids, TWIST, Business 2.0, the Utne Reader, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday and numerous others. She has also created cards, posters, games and textbook illustrations for children and teen markets.

In 2000, she illustrated her first book, "Girl Stuff" for Harcourt Brace/Gulliver. Since then, she has gone on to illustrate the pre-teen book series "DISH" (Penguin Putnam/ Grosset & Dunlop), "Betty's Book of Laundry Secrets" (Rodale Press) and "Barefoot in Fire". Recently, Ms. Pollak wrote and illustrated her first picture book for younger audiences about gardening, community and food. Our Community Garden was published in 2004. She is currently working on her next book for kids about a girl who has lots of pockets.

In her free time she enjoys traveling, painting and collecting Japanese fashion magazines.

History

Member for

1 year 34 weeks