directory of children's illustration

Contact Information

First Name

Barbara

Last Name

Spurll

Country

Canada

personal web address

http://www.barbaraspurll.com/

type of art work

watercolor and dye

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

phone number

1-800-989-3123

Bio

Barbara's family traded the English fog for the wind-chill factor of Winnipeg, Canada when she was three-and-a-half. She survived the winters and Cream of Wheat, eventually moving east to Toronto to study art at the Artists' Workshop, the New School of Art and George Brown College. Barbara's humorous style has been said to portray "animals with attitude". Barbara has illustrated many children’s picture books including Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!, Emma’s Eggs and others commissioned by publishers such as Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Scholastic Inc., Oxford University Press, Clarion and Zonderkidz.