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Contact Information

First Name

Peggy

Last Name

Collins

Street Address

738 County Road 12

City

Roblin

State

Ontario

Country

Canada

personal web address

www.peggysillustration.com

type of art work

gouache, ink, watercolour, pastel, scratchboard, children's book, picture book, education

Published Works

The Trouble With Geese - Scholastic 2005, Sammy - Scholastic 2005, Always Room for One More - Rubicon Educational Publishing, Quiet Tessa Mouse - Scholastic 2006, Going Fishing - Scholastic 2006, The End of the Dinosaurs - Scholastic 2006, Tallulah's Atishoo - Red Robin Books 2007, The PErils of the Peanut Butter Kid - YVO DESIGN 2007, A Dusty Life - Scholastic 2007, Yoon's Smart Readers - EECI 2007 (available in Korea only), There's a Spider in the Bath - Red Robin Books Coming in 2008!, Shaun the Shy Shark - Red Robin Books Coming in 2008!, The Big List - Pearson US - Coming in 2008!, In the Garden - Cider Mill Press/Applesauce Press - Coming in 2008!, In the Snow - Cider Mill Press/Applesauce Press - Coming in 2008!

Bio

Since 2004, Peggy Has been illustrating books for children. She has six titles with Scholastic, three with Red Robin Books UK, and has, most recently, signed on with Cider Mill Press for a series of picture books she has written - the first two are due out in hardback this year.
She has also done a wide variety of covers, spots and editorials for children's magazines, workplace magazines, educational workbooks, and parenting magazines.

She enjoys working with humour, energy, colour and great stories. She work on clayboard, illustration board and watercolour paper using, gouache, pastel, ink, crayon - whatever works for the story.

She is easy to work with, as evidenced by the clients who keep coming back for more. She is punctual and efficient and has been told she is the 'easiest illustrator I have ever worked with' by more than one art director.

RECENT CLIENTS
Bill Smith Studio/Pearson
Cider Mill Press
Treehouse Press
EECI
Red Robin Books UK
Scholastic UK
Scholastic Ltd.
Classroom Complete Press
Nelvana
Mothering Magazine
Daughters Magazine
Rubicon Publishing
New Moon Publishing

AWARDS
Applied Arts - Corporate Direct Mail
Anvil Award - Best Illustration in Advertising or Design

History

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15 weeks 3 days