Beth Krommes
Beth Krommes | |
|---|---|
picture books | |
| Notable works | The House in the Night |
| Notable awards | Caldecott Medal 2009 |
Beth Krommes (born 1956) is an American
children's books. Her work has won several honors, including the 2002 Golden Kite Award and the 2009 Caldecott Medal
.
Biography
Krommes was born in Pennsylvania in 1956.MAT in art education.[3] She has been illustrating children's books since 1989.[1] Her illustrations for The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish won her the 2001 Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration.[4] In 2009, she won the Caldecott Medal for her work on The House in the Night.[1] She is married, has two daughters[3] and lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[2]
- Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999)
- The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, Jacqueline Briggs Martin (HM, 2001)
- The Sun in Me: Poems About the Planet (Cambridge: OCLC 51724851
- The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies and Other Secret Beings, Lise Lunge-Larsen (HM, 2004), 72 pp.
- Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Joyce Sidman (HM, 2006)
- The House in the Night, Susan Marie Swanson (HM, 2008)
- Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Joyce Sidman (HM, 2011)
- Blue on Blue, Dianne White (LCCN 2012-14239
- Before Morning, Joyce Sidman (HMH, 2016)
References
- ^ a b c "Neil Gaiman, Beth Krommes win Newbery, Caldecott Medals". American Library Association. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Biography". bethkrommes.com. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Beth Krommes". University of Massachusetts Amherst Library. Archived from the original on 6 June 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ "Golden Kite Award Recipients". Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Archived from the original on 9 December 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Beth Krommes at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalog records
