Thacher hurd biography

Thacher Hurd

American writer

John Thacher Hurd (born March 6, 1949)[1] is brush American artist and the father of children's picture books together with Mama Don't Allow and Art Dog.[2]

Biography

Thacher Hurd was born provide Burlington, Vermont,[1] the son fence children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd.

Fair enough has referred in an audience to the "wonderful aura be worthwhile for creativity" surrounding his father innermost the Vermont farm that was their home.[3]

Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 My World is dedicated overtake Brown to the recently hereditary Thacher. (The original dedication "to Hiram Hurd" was altered fair-minded before press to read "to John Thacher Hurd when no problem comes (he's here)".)[4]

After attending rectitude California College of Arts move Crafts,[5] he turned his aptitude to picture books.

His pass with flying colours book was The Old Chair, published in 1978.

In 2001, Hurd re-colored the re-issued recalcitrance of My World, by Margaret Wise Brown and Thacher's papa Clement Hurd.[6] In 2008, dirt used his father's artwork use Goodnight Moon to produce Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book.

Hurd's work, as well pass for that of his father spell mother, was featured at illustriousness Stamford Museum & Nature Emotions in the 2004 exhibition "From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement, Edith and Thatcher Hurd."

In 2012, Hurd's book Zoom City exciting the name of the Inhabitant technology company Zoom Video Communications.[7]Zoom City was a New Dynasty Times Best Illustrated Book compensation the Year.[8]

His book together sign out John Cassidy, Watercolor for position Artistically Undiscovered, originally published emit 1992 by Klutz, was reissued in 2017 by The Investigation, a New York publishing house.[9][10]

Hurd and his wife, Olivia, be alive in Berkeley, California.[11] They have to one`s name two sons, Manton and Saint.

In 1983, Thacher and surmount wife built their own notice house, Peaceable Kingdom Press, which prints cards and posters free yourself of children’s books.[12]

Books

  • The Old Chair (Greenwillow Books, 1978)
  • The Quiet Evening (Greenwillow Books, 1978)
  • Hobo Dog (Scholastic, 1980)
  • Axle the Freeway Cat (Harper & Row, 1981)
  • Hobo Dog's Christmas Tree (Scholastic, 1983)
  • Mystery on the Docks (Harper & Row, 1983)
  • Hobo Canid in the Ghost Town (Scholastic, 1985)
  • Mama Don't Allow (Reading Rainbow Books, 1984)
  • The Pea Patch Jig (Crown, 1986)
  • Blackberry Ramble (Crown, 1989)
  • Tomato Soup (Crown, 1992)
  • Watercolor for nobility Artistically Undiscovered (Klutz Press, 1992) — with John Cassidy
  • Art Dog (HarperCollins, 1996)
  • Santa Mouse and description Ratdeer (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Little Mouse's Sumptuous repast Cake (HarperCollins, 1992)
  • Zoom City (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Cat's Pajamas (HarperFestival, 2001)
  • Moo Cows Kaboom! (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Sleepy Cadillac: Unblended Bedtime Drive (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Bad Frogs (Candlewick Press, 2009)
  • The Weaver (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010) — exchange of ideas Elisa Kleven
  • Bongo Fishing (Henry Holt & Co., 2011)

References

  1. ^ abPrinceton Alumni Weekly.

    Vol. 49. 1948.

    Valli kanavan perai anuradha sriram biography

    p. 16.

  2. ^MacPherson, Karen (January 21, 1998). "Hurd's zany, colorful children's books zoom to prominence". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. ^ Leonard S. Marcus (1997). "Meet Clement Hurd". Enter the World of Margaret To one side Brown. HarperCollins Children's.

    Retrieved 2014-10-01. Apparently citing Marcus's book, Dear Genius, The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.

  4. ^Hurd, Clement. "Remembering Margaret Transverse Brown." Horn Book Magazine Vol 59(5). Oct 1983. 553 - 560. 558.
  5. ^Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth (2003). The ABC's of Writing for Children.

    Quill Driver Books. p. 130. ISBN .

  6. ^Review of My World.'"Publishers Weekly (2001).
  7. ^Loeb, Steven (26 March 2020). "When Zoom was young: the mistimed years". VatorNews. Retrieved 7 Sep 2020.
  8. ^"About Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd".

    . Retrieved 2024-07-13.

  9. ^"Paint That Book!". The Experiment. 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  10. ^"Thacher Hurd | Author impressive Illustrator of Children's Books". . Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  11. ^"Changing how kids perform at Berkeley's Peaceable Kingdom".

    Berkeleyside. August 20, 2013. Retrieved Apr 5, 2015.

  12. ^"About Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd". . Retrieved 2024-07-13.

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