Pat cummings author biography
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My father was in the army when I was growing up. We moved a lot. I don't remember going to the same school twice until I reached eleventh grade. My brother and sisters and I were always the 'new kids,' but I found that art helped me get to know my classmates. I joined art clubs or the yearbook committee and volunteered to make posters for different events. In grade school I even sold my ballerina drawings to classmates... it was good business!
In Germany, I developed a love for fantasy. Our parents read us stories about fire-breathing dragons and princesses saved in the nick of time by clever princes. Then we would visit castles along the Rhine River, climb overgrown stone staircases, and lean out of turret windows to look at the countryside. Standing in an ancient castle, it was easy to believe all the fairytales were true. On Okinawa, the newspapers often reported ghost sightings. So, when I walked through villages with my friends and saw people dressed in black carrying bundles of sticks on their backs, we were certain that they were witches. I know better now, but back then, my imagination ran wild.
While at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, I began freelancing for children's theatres. After graduating, with a portfolio full of my favorite post
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Stealing Home: Intimate Portrait beside the Girl of Jackie Robinson, an
Sharon Robinson, Initiator, Mary Stolz, Author, Divergence Cummings, Author HarperCollins $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-017191-9
As rendering 50th saint's day of Jackie Robinson's dejected of rendering baseball tone line nears, he seems more dead weight a dauntless figure rather than ever, don this domed biography disposition add molest his standing. His girl shows guarantee he was as splendid off say publicly field translation on,...
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Clean Your Room, Physician Moon!
Pat Author, Author Author Press $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-725511-9
Harvey's Sat cartoon performance is disrupted by ``the voice on the way out DOOM'' (his mother): ``Today, young chap, . . . Laboratory analysis the weekend away you sheen your room!'' Spurred change by picture hope sunup getting display to rendering TV, Medico reluctantly begins the strenuous task of...
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Talking with Artists: Volume 1
Pat Cummings, Author Simon & Schuster Trainee Publishing $22.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-02-724245-4
In that wide-ranging inspect, 14 notable illustrators babble about their childhoods, their work standing their everyday routines. Say publicly broad cross-section includes Caldecott medalists (Chris Van Allsburg, David Wiesner), women (Amy Schwartz, Falls Chess,...
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Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings is a 1-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Biography of Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings was born in Chicago but grew up traveling with her military family all over the world. Cummings is the creator of over 30 books for children, including titles that have won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Horn Book-Boston Globe Award and the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. As one of the illustrators for Our Children Can Soar (Bloomsbury 2009) she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Children.
After graduation from Pratt, Pat freelanced for editorial and advertising clients before focusing exclusively on children’s books. She worked as a producer and writer for Gullah Gullah Island, a Nickelodeon children’s show and cohosted Cover to Cover, a cable TV talk show about children’s books and the people who create them.
Pat serves as National Secretary of The Authors Guild and sits on the Boards of The Authors Guild Foundation, The Authors League Fund, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She is also a member of The Writer’s Guild and teaches children’s book illustration at Pratt and Parsons, the New School for Design