We pay tribute to the authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals we’ve got misplaced this 12 months.
Creator-illustrator Derek Anderson, identified for his expressive and infrequently humorous acrylics in Lauren Thompson’s Little Quack image books and quite a few self-illustrated books, died on April 26 in St. Paul, Minn. He was 55.
Prolific youngsters’s ebook writer Kate Banks, whose prose was praised as lyrical, intelligent, and sleek, died on February 24 in Switzerland. She was 64.
Image ebook author-illustrator Lynne Barasch, who created full of life biographies in addition to tales impressed by her household life, died on March 7. She was 84.
French author-illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, acclaimed for carrying on the legacy of beloved character Babar the elephant, first illustrated by his father Jean, died on March 22 at his house in Key West, Fla. He was 98.
Kids’s ebook writer Cynthia DeFelice, oft-lauded for her deft storytelling and absorbing themes, died on Could 24, in Geneva, N.Y. She was 72.
Creator and illustrator Bruce Degen, greatest identified for his humorous paintings depicting the enjoyable and informative discipline journeys of Ms. Frizzle’s class within the Magic College Bus image ebook sequence by Joanna Cole, died on November 7 in Newtown, Ct. He was 79.
Swiss self-taught artist and animator Étienne Delessert, identified for the surrealistic, wildly imaginative pictures in his greater than 80 youngsters’s books, died on April 22 in Lakeville, Conn. He was 83.
Dilys Evans, a trailblazing consultant of youngsters’s ebook illustrators, and a fierce champion for recognition of their contributions to the high quality arts world, died July 23 at her Santa Fe, N.M. house. She was 88.
Kids’s nonfiction writer and former youngsters’s librarian Norman H. Finkelstein, greatest identified for his works exploring facets of the Jewish expertise, died on January 5, in Framingham, Mass. He was 82.
Achieved painter and author-illustrator Leonard Everett Fisher, extensively identified for his atmospheric, reasonable paintings in books targeted on American and world historical past and mythology, died on March 2 in Westport, Conn. He was 99.
Kids’s writer, educator, and free speech champion Robie Harris, greatest identified for her tales about younger youngsters’s highly effective feelings and her often challenged and banned books on human sexuality, together with It’s Completely Regular, died in New York Metropolis on January 6. She was 83.
Kids’s ebook writer, illustrator, and designer Nonny Hogrogian, acclaimed for her vibrant woodcut and mixed-media paintings and twice awarded the Caldecott Medal, died on Could 9 in Holyoke, Mass. She was 92.
Kids’s writer Katey Howes, whose image books typically targeted on STEM/STEAM themes, creativity, and individualism, died on Could 20 in Langhorne, Pa. She was 47.
Award-winning author-illustrator Petra Mathers, identified for her naive-flavored pencil and watercolor paintings, died on February 6 along with her husband, writer and photographer Michael Mathers, at their house in Astoria, Ore. She was 78.
Image ebook writer Florence Minor, who collaborated on quite a few books for youngsters along with her husband, illustrator Wendell Minor, died on Could 21 in Washington, Conn. She was 74.
Creator Francine Pascal, whose massively fashionable Candy Valley Excessive sequence broke new floor—and a number of other data—within the YA publishing realm, died July 28 in Manhattan. She was 92.
Kids’s writer, illustrator, animator, and designer James Proimos, identified for his quirky image books and boldly hued cartoon characters, died on July 8. He was 66.
Award-winning visible artist, youngsters’s ebook author-illustrator, and instructor Religion Ringgold, extensively acclaimed for her works depicting African American heroines and themes, and for her distinctive “story quilt” medium, died on April 13 in Englewood, N.J. She was 93.
Creator and educator Lore Segal, who wrote and translated intelligent and sunny youngsters’s tales alongside the autobiographical grownup tales and novels knowledgeable by her formative years as a Jewish refugee throughout WWII, died on October 7 at her house in Manhattan. She was 96.
Esteemed youngsters’s editor Dinah Stevenson, a eager spotter of expertise who shepherded quite a few books and authors to the trade’s highest accolades, and former writer of Clarion Books, died on January 23 in Hoboken, N.J. She was 81.
Prolific author-illustrator Mike Thaler, greatest identified for his many riddle books and his humorous Black Lagoon Adventures sequence, died on March 23 in Yakima, Wash. He was 87.
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