Ed Emberley

Edward Randolph Emberley (born October 19, 1931)[1] is an American artist and illustrator, best known for children's picture books.

Biography

Emberley was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design), from which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and illustration.[1] He also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design.

He married Barbara, a librarian and writer, in 1955; they have two children, Rebecca and Michael. They currently live in Ipswich, Massachusetts.[1]

Career

Emberley is best known for his children's book work - particularly instructional drawing books. Emberley believes that everyone can learn to draw. His drawing books for children feature clear step-by-step instructions employing numbers, letters, and shapes graded to the early elementary school level. For example, the book Ed Emberley's A.B.C. uses this style of instruction, presenting a single letter-based drawing for each letter of the alphabet.

Emberley has illustrated or contributed to over 50 books, many of which were first published between the 1960s and 1980s. Renewed interest in Emberley's work has come from adults who first encountered his books as children and now are purchasing them for their own children.[2] His most recent book,The Red Hen, was released on October 26, 2010; like his preceding work, Chicken Little (2009) it is a collaboration with Rebecca Emberley.[3]

Awards and honors

Emberley's first book, The Wing on a Flea (1961), was an ALA Notable Book and made the New York Times list of best-illustrated books for that year.[1] He was sole runner-up for the 1967 Caldecott Medal, as illustrator of One Wide River to Cross, written by his wife Barbara Emberley. Next year he won the Medal for another collaboration with Barbara, Drummer Hoff. The award by children's librarians annually recognizes "the most distinguished American picture book or children".[4] Drummer Hoff was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

Selected works

  • A Birthday Wish 1977
  • Bits and Bytes (illustrator)
  • Bye-Bye, Big Bad Bullybug
  • Chicken Little 2009 (illustrator)
  • Clothing (illustrator)
  • Columbus Day (illustrator)
  • Drawing Book of Faces
  • Drummer Hoff 1968 (illustrator)
  • Ed Emberley's 6 Nature Adventures
  • Ed Emberley's ABC 1978
  • Ed Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book
  • Ed Emberley's Big Orange Drawing Book
  • Ed Emberley's Big Purple Drawing Book
  • Ed Emberley's Big Red Drawing Book
  • Ed Emberley's Christmas Drawing Book
  • Ed Emberley's Crazy Mixed-Up Face Game
  • Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World 1972
  • Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals
  • Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Faces
  • Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains 2002
  • Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos
  • Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book 2001
  • Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book
  • Ed Emberley's Jumbo Book of Drawing Activities
  • Ed Emberley's Little Book of Drawing Farms
  • Ed Emberley's Little Drawing Book of Trains
  • Ed Emberley's Picture Pie
  • Ed Emberley's Second Drawing Box
  • Ed Emberley's Three Science Flip Books
  • Flash, Crash, Rumble and Roll (illustrator)
  • First Words: Cars, Boats and Planes
  • First Words: Sounds
  • Glad Monster, Sad Monster (illustrator)
  • Go Away, Big Green Monster 1993
  • Green Says Go
  • How to Talk to Your Computer (illustrator)
  • If You're a Monster and You Know It... 2010 (illustrator)
  • Kid-Friendly Computer Book (illustrator)
  • Kid-Friendly Computer Start-Ups (illustrator)
  • Klippity Klop
  • Krispin's Fair 1976 (illustrator)
  • Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home 1967 (illustrator)
  • Meet the Computer (illustrator)
  • Moon Seems to Change (illustrator)
  • One Wide River to Cross 1967
  • Simon's Song (illustrator)
  • Squiggles, Dots and Lines
  • Straight Hair, Curly Hair (illustrator)
  • Suppose You Met a Witch 1973 (illustrator)
  • Thanks Mom
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper (illustrator)
  • The BASIC Book (illustrator)
  • The Big Dipper (illustrator)
  • The Bottom of the Sea 1966 (illustrator)
  • The Fisherman and his Wife unfinished (illustrator)
  • The Gallant Tailor unfinished (adaptor and illustrator)
  • The Lion and the Mice (illustrator)
  • The Red Hen 2010
  • The Story of Paul Bunyan (illustrator)
  • The Wing on a Flea 1961
  • The Wizard of Op
  • There Was an Old Lady unfinished (illustrator)
  • There Was an Old Monster! 2009 (illustrator)
  • Three: An Emberley Family Sketchbook 1998
  • Turtle Talk (illustrator)
  • Where's My Sweetie Pie? 2010
  • Yankee Doodle (illustrator)
  • The Crocodile and the Scorpion
  • Spare Parts (illustrator)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ed Emberley Papers". de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. University of Southern Mississippi. Retrieved 2013-06-22. With biographical sketch.
  2. ↑ BCCB profile
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596434929
  4. ↑ "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–Present". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA)
      "The Randolph Caldecott Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
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