Tad hills wife and husband

  • Hills lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
  • ” He makes his children's Halloween costumes (he and his wife, Lee Wade, have two children: Elinor, now 14, and Charlie, 11) and cites that as an apt.
  • " He makes his children's Halloween costumes (he and his wife, Lee Wade, have two children: Elinor, now 14, and Charlie, 11) and cites that as an apt.

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    Tad Hills: Engineering the Whole from Its Parts

    published in Shelf Awareness on June 30, 2010

    Raised in the Massachusetts countryside by a mother who taught at the Audubon Society and a father who was one of a long line of engineers, Tad Hills honed his powers of observation and capacity to build things. “I really like to make stuff, it’s in my blood,” he says. “Everything I make I approach in the same way, whether it’s a story, an illustration or even something three-dimensional.” He makes his children’s Halloween costumes (he and his wife, Lee Wade, have two children: Elinor, now 14, and Charlie, 11) and cites that as an apt example: “I start with nothing and put pieces together and figure out how to make them stand up.” The same could be said of Hills’s latest hero, a dog named Rocket who starts with nothing (not even an interest in reading) and begins to put letters together into meaningful words.

    How did you get started in children’s books?

    I was a studio art major at Skidmore. After college, I moved to Brooklyn and worked on my art. I had various freelance jobs, including doing book jackets for Lee, my future wife. It was before we started going out. Lee went to Skidm

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    Tad Hills

    How Prepare Learned appraise Read
    4.19 avg spiraling — 6,361 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions
    Rocket Writes a Story
    4.19 avg rating — 2,658 ratings — accessible 2012 — 12 editions
    Duck & Goose
    4.12 avg rating — 2,594 ratings — publicized 2006 — 27 editions
    Duck & Goofball Find A Pumpkin
    4.05 avg gyratory — 1,585 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions
    Duck, Dive, Goose
    4.05 avg gyratory — 1,134 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions
    Duck & Goose Forward to say publicly Beach
    3.95 avg extraordinary — 851 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
    Duck & Goose, It's Time In favour of Christmas!
    3.86 avg soprano — 803 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
    Duck & Goose: Fathead Needs a Hug
    4.13 avg rotary — 726 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
    What's Boss, Duck?: A Book grapple Opposites
    4.02 avg judgement — 696 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
    Drop Inert, Rocket!
    3.95 avg extraordinary — 683 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions

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    Tad Hills

    American writer

    Tad Hills

    reading at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival

    Born (1963-04-01) April 1, 1963 (age 61)
    Needham, Massachusetts
    NationalityAmerican
    GenreChildren's fiction
    tadhills.com

    Tad Hills (born April 1, 1963, in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American children's book author and illustrator. His first picture book, Duck & Goose, a New York Times bestseller and ALA Notable Book for Children, is about a pair of feathered friends.[1] In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews wrote that "readers will likely hope to see more of this adorable odd couple"[2]—a hope that was realized. The Duck & Goose series now contains nine titles, including Duck, Duck, Goose; Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin; and Duck & Goose, It's Time for Christmas.[3] Hills is also the author of How Rocket Learned to Read, winner of the Irma Simonton Black & James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature[4] and a New York Times bestseller.[5] A sequel, Rocket Writes a Story, was published to similar acclaim, debuting at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list and named as a top picture book of the year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Publishers Week

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