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Barbara Pollak
Contact Information
- First Name
- Barbara
- Last Name
- Pollak
- City
- San Francisco
- State
- CA
- Country
- United States
- personal web address
- http://www.happypix.com
- Art Rep 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 and two tropical fish.
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.