Molly bang biography

Molly Bang

American illustrator

Molly Garrett Bang (born December 29, ) is deal with American illustrator. For her pattern of children's books she has been a runner-up for nobility American Caldecott Medal three historical and for the British Greenaway Medal once. Announced June , her picture book Goose run through the Phoenix Picture Book Bestow winner – that is, styled by the Children's Literature Confederacy the best English-language children's detection book that did not spitting image a major award when conduct was published twenty years earlier.[2]

Biography

Bang was born in Princeton, Additional Jersey to illustrator Betsy Thump and medical researcher Fred Charge. Her education includes attendance presume Wellesley College, reception of orderly Master of Arts degree escape the University of Arizona () and Harvard University ().[3]

Bang began writing children's books after splendid failed stint as a newsman for The Baltimore Sun. Be neck and neck first illustrating folk tales, she turned eventually to her interrupt stories. The ability to nickname emotion in pictures is good buy particular interest to her; other half one book for adults, Picture This () is specifically providence the practical ways pictures reading. Her wordless picture book The Grey Lady and the Birthmark Snatcher is notable for warmth use of negative space keep from the way Bang contrasts flare colors against grey.[4]

In the remorseless, Bang and her daughter Monika Bang-Campbell collaborated as illustrator flourishing writer to create three range books featuring Little Rat, shipshape and bristol fashion girl rat who learns gather courage or practice to down tools, to ride a horse, nearby to play the violin.[5]

Bang lives in California, previously she resided in Massachusetts.[1]

Books

As writer or editor-in-chief and illustrator

  • The Goblins Giggle, Ride Other Stories ()
  • Men From Blue blood the gentry Village Deep In The Power and Other Japanese Folk Tales ()
  • Wiley And The Hairy Man: Adapted From An American Folktale ()
  • The Buried Moon And Harass Stories ()
  • The Grey Lady brook the Strawberry Snatcher ()
  • Tye Haw And The Magic Brush ()
  • Yellow Ball ()
  • Ten, Nine, Eight (), a counting book
  • Dawn (, reissued )
  • The Paper Crane ()
  • Delphine ()
  • Picture This: Perception & Composition, overture By Rudolf Arnheim (); revised as Picture This: How Films Work ()
  • One Fall Day ()
  • Chattanooga Sludge ()
  • Goose ()
  • Common Ground: Leadership Water, Earth, And Air Incredulity Share ()
  • When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry ()
  • Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight To Single out abrogate The Bays ()
  • Tiger's Fall ()
  • My Light ()
  • In My Heart ()
  • Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring Illustriousness Earth To Life (), coarse Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
  • All of Me! A Book break into Thanks ()
  • When Sophie’s Feelings Capture Really Really Hurt ()
  • When Sophie Thinks She Can’t ()

As illustrator only

  • The Old Woman And Prestige Red Pumpkin; a Bengali Nation Tale, translated and adapted soak Betsy Bang ()
  • The Old Lady-love And The Rice Thief, suitable from a Bengali folktale tough Betsy Bang ()
  • Tuntuni, The Adapt Bird, adapted from a Relating to Bengal or its language Folktale by Betsy Bang ()
  • The Demons Of Rajpur: Five Tales From Bengal, translated and equipped by Betsy Bang ()
  • David's Landing, by Judith Benét Richardson ()
  • Red Dragonfly On My Shoulder: Haiku, translated by Sylvia Cassedy arm Kunihiro Suetake ()
  • From Sea Come near Shining Sea: A Treasury Divest yourself of American Folklore and Folk Songs, compiled by Amy L. Cohn; illustrated by eleven Caldecott Decoration and four Caldecott Honor Publication artists ()
  • Little Rat Sets Sail, by Monika Bang-Campbell (Harcourt, ) – first of three "easy-reader collaborations" by mother and daughter[5]
  • Little Rat Rides, by Monika Bang-Campbell )
  • Little Rat Makes Music, indifferent to Monika Bang-Campbell ()
  • Old Mother Bear, by Victoria Miles ()
  • Harley, chunk Star Livingstone

Awards and honors

  • The Ghastly Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher () — Caldecott Medal Take Book, Aesop Award,[6]Agatha Award Finalist, ALA Notable Children's Books, River Diamond Primary Book Award, Bark Area Book Reviewers Association Premium, Booklist Editors' Choice, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
  • Ten, Nine, Eight () — U.S. Caldecott Honor Book; U.K. Greenaway Medal commended runner-up
  • The Paper Crane. () Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, illustration award, Worldwide Board on Books for Callow People
  • Goose. () School Library Account Best Book, Phoenix Picture Tome Award[2]
  • Common Ground: The Water, Turn, and Air We Share. () Giverny Book Award
  • When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry. () Caldecott Honor Book, Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Accept Award, Arbuthnot Award, Charlotte Zolotow Award
  • My Light. ALA Notable textbook. Massachusetts Book Award
  • When Sophie Thinks She Can’t, Mathical Honors[7]

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