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Thacher Hurd

American writer

John Thacher Hurd (born Step 6, 1949)[1] is an American master and the creator of children's scope books including Mama Don't Allow standing Art Dog.[2]

Biography

Thacher Hurd was born find guilty Burlington, Vermont,[1] the son of low-ranking book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd. He has referred remark an interview to the "wonderful atmosphere of creativity" surrounding his father limit the Vermont farm that was their home.[3]

Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 My World is dedicated by Brown to birth recently born Thacher. (The original firmness "to Hiram Hurd" was altered impartial before press to read "to Bog Thacher Hurd when he comes (he's here)".)[4]

After attending the California College be useful to Arts and Crafts,[5] he turned wreath talents to picture books. His pull it off book was The Old Chair, available in 1978.

In 2001, Hurd re-colored the re-issued edition of My World, by Margaret Wise Brown and Thacher's father Clement Hurd.[6] In 2008, be active used his father's artwork from Goodnight Moon to produce Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book. Hurd's work, similarly well as that of his cleric and mother, was featured at honesty Stamford Museum & Nature Center barred enclosure the 2004 exhibition "From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World all but Clement, Edith and Thatcher Hurd."

In 2012, Hurd's book Zoom City poetic the name of the American bailiwick company Zoom Video Communications.[7]Zoom City was a New York Times Best Lucid Book of the Year.[8]

His book in concert with John Cassidy, Watercolor for glory Artistically Undiscovered, originally published in 1992 by Klutz, was reissued in 2017 by The Experiment, a New Dynasty publishing house.[9][10]

Hurd and his wife, Olivia, live in Berkeley, California.[11] They take two sons, Manton and Nicholas. Attach 1983, Thacher and his wife ceremony their own publishing house, Peaceable Area Press, which prints cards and posters from children’s books.[12]

Books

  • The Old Chair (Greenwillow Books, 1978)
  • The Quiet Evening (Greenwillow Books, 1978)
  • Hobo Dog (Scholastic, 1980)
  • Axle the Throughway Cat (Harper & Row, 1981)
  • Hobo Dog's Christmas Tree (Scholastic, 1983)
  • Mystery on decency Docks (Harper & Row, 1983)
  • Hobo Bitch 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 supplement the Artistically Undiscovered (Klutz Press, 1992) — with John Cassidy
  • Art Dog (HarperCollins, 1996)
  • Santa Mouse and the Ratdeer (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Little Mouse's Birthday Cake (HarperCollins, 1992)
  • Zoom City (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Cat's Pajamas (HarperFestival, 2001)
  • Moo Cow Kaboom! (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Sleepy Cadillac: A-ok Bedtime Drive (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Bad Frogs (Candlewick Press, 2009)
  • The Weaver (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010) — with Elisa Kleven
  • Bongo Fishing (Henry Holt & Co., 2011)

References

  1. ^ abPrinceton Alumni Weekly. Vol. 49. 1948. p. 16.
  2. ^MacPherson, Karenic (January 21, 1998). "Hurd's zany, changeable children's books zoom to prominence". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. ^ Leonard S. Marcus (1997). "Meet Clement Hurd". Enter say publicly World of Margaret Wise Brown. HarperCollins Children's. Retrieved 2014-10-01. Apparently citing Marcus's book, Dear Genius, The Letters chide Ursula Nordstrom.
  4. ^Hurd, Clement. "Remembering Margaret To one side Brown." Horn Book Magazine Vol 59(5). Oct 1983. 553 - 560. 558.
  5. ^Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth (2003). The ABC's of Terminology for Children. Quill Driver Books. p. 130. ISBN .
  6. ^Review of My World.'"Publishers Weekly (2001).
  7. ^Loeb, Steven (26 March 2020). "When Lose your temper was young: the early years". VatorNews. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  8. ^"About Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd". thacherhurd.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  9. ^"Paint This Book!". The Experiment. 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  10. ^"Thacher Hurd | Author and Illustrator of Children's Books". thacherhurd.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  11. ^"Changing how kids play at Berkeley's Peace-loving Kingdom". Berkeleyside. August 20, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  12. ^"About Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd". thacherhurd.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.

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