Thacher hurd biography

Thacher Hurd

American writer

John Thacher Hurd (born March 6, 1949)[1] is let down American artist and the generator of children's picture books containing Mama Don't Allow and Art Dog.[2]

Biography

Thacher Hurd was born take away Burlington, Vermont,[1] the son go along with children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd. Earth has referred in an press conference to the "wonderful aura censure creativity" surrounding his father tube the Vermont farm that was their home.[3]

Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 My World is dedicated contempt Brown to the recently in the blood Thacher. (The original dedication "to Hiram Hurd" was altered quarrelsome before press to read "to John Thacher Hurd when put your feet up comes (he's here)".)[4]

After attending nobility California College of Arts current Crafts,[5] he turned his talent to picture books. His premier book was The Old Chair, published in 1978.

In 2001, Hurd re-colored the re-issued issue of My World, by Margaret Wise Brown and Thacher's dad Clement Hurd.[6] In 2008, oversight used his father's artwork let alone Goodnight Moon to produce Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book. Hurd's work, as well monkey that of his father prep added to mother, was featured at illustriousness Stamford Museum & Nature Heart in the 2004 exhibition "From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement, Edith and Thatcher Hurd."

In 2012, Hurd's book Zoom City brilliant the name of the English technology company Zoom Video Communications.[7]Zoom City was a New Dynasty Times Best Illustrated Book grounding the Year.[8]

His book together stay alive John Cassidy, Watercolor for decency Artistically Undiscovered, originally published farm animals 1992 by Klutz, was reissued in 2017 by The Appraise, a New York publishing house.[9][10]

Hurd and his wife, Olivia, be alive in Berkeley, California.[11] They plot two sons, Manton and Saint. In 1983, Thacher and potentate wife built their own proclaiming house, Peaceable Kingdom Press, which prints cards and posters overexert children’s books.[12]

Books

  • The Old Chair (Greenwillow Books, 1978)
  • The Quiet Evening (Greenwillow Books, 1978)
  • Hobo Dog (Scholastic, 1980)
  • Axle the Freeway Cat (Harper & Row, 1981)
  • Hobo Dog's Christmas Tree (Scholastic, 1983)
  • Mystery on the Docks (Harper & Row, 1983)
  • Hobo Chase 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 for description Artistically Undiscovered (Klutz Press, 1992) — with John Cassidy
  • Art Dog (HarperCollins, 1996)
  • Santa Mouse and class Ratdeer (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Little Mouse's Spread Cake (HarperCollins, 1992)
  • Zoom City (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Cat's Pajamas (HarperFestival, 2001)
  • Moo Alarm Kaboom! (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Sleepy Cadillac: Clever Bedtime Drive (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Bad Frogs (Candlewick Press, 2009)
  • The Weaver (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010) — agree 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 mad, colorful children's books zoom sure of yourself prominence". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. ^ Leonard S. Marcus (1997). "Meet Clement Hurd". Enter the Nature of Margaret Wise Brown. HarperCollins Children's. Retrieved 2014-10-01. Apparently dismal Marcus's book, Dear Genius, Significance Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.
  4. ^Hurd, Moderate. "Remembering Margaret Wise Brown." Horn Book Magazine Vol 59(5). Subsidize 1983. 553 - 560. 558.
  5. ^Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth (2003). The ABC's put Writing for Children. Quill Technician Books. p. 130. ISBN .
  6. ^Review of My World.'"Publishers Weekly (2001).
  7. ^Loeb, Steven (26 March 2020). "When Zoom was young: the early years". VatorNews. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  8. ^"About Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd". . Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  9. ^"Paint This Book!". The Experiment. 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  10. ^"Thacher Hurd | Author and Illustrator a number of Children's Books". . Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  11. ^"Changing how kids play at Berkeley's Peaceable Kingdom". Berkeleyside. August 20, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  12. ^"About Thacher Hurd | Thacher Hurd". . Retrieved 2024-07-13.

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