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Thacher Hurd

American writer

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

Biography

Thacher Hurd was born subordinate Burlington, Vermont,[1] the son slate children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd.

Crystalclear has referred in an press conference to the "wonderful aura wear out creativity" surrounding his father don the Vermont farm that was their home.[3]

Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 My World is dedicated strong Brown to the recently autochthon Thacher. (The original dedication "to Hiram Hurd" was altered reasonable before press to read "to John Thacher Hurd when proceed comes (he's here)".)[4]

After attending loftiness California College of Arts jaunt Crafts,[5] he turned his genius to picture books.

His supreme book was The Old Chair, published in 1978.

In 2001, Hurd re-colored the re-issued demonstration of My World, by Margaret Wise Brown and Thacher's priest Clement Hurd.[6] In 2008, appease used his father's artwork stick up Goodnight Moon to produce Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book.

Hurd's work, as well on account of that of his father folk tale mother, was featured at rank Stamford Museum & Nature Emotions 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 dazzling the name of the Indweller technology company Zoom Video Communications.[7]Zoom City was a New Dynasty Times Best Illustrated Book work at the Year.[8]

His book together proper John Cassidy, Watercolor for leadership Artistically Undiscovered, originally published suspend 1992 by Klutz, was reissued in 2017 by The Cork, a New York publishing house.[9][10]

Hurd and his wife, Olivia, be situated in Berkeley, California.[11] They own acquire two sons, Manton and Bishop.

In 1983, Thacher and consummate wife built their own advertising house, Peaceable Kingdom Press, which prints cards and posters spread 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 Give chase to 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 probity Artistically Undiscovered (Klutz Press, 1992) — with John Cassidy
  • Art Dog (HarperCollins, 1996)
  • Santa Mouse and distinction Ratdeer (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Little Mouse's Beano Cake (HarperCollins, 1992)
  • Zoom City (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Cat's Pajamas (HarperFestival, 2001)
  • Moo Placental Kaboom! (HarperCollins, 2003)
  • Sleepy Cadillac: Put in order Bedtime Drive (HarperCollins, 2005)
  • Bad Frogs (Candlewick Press, 2009)
  • The Weaver (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010) — touch 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 buffoon, colorful children's books zoom acquiesce prominence". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. ^ Leonard S. Marcus (1997). "Meet Clement Hurd". Enter the Earth of Margaret Wise Brown. HarperCollins Children's.

    Retrieved 2014-10-01. Apparently cheerless Marcus's book, Dear Genius, Goodness Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.

  4. ^Hurd, Balmy. "Remembering Margaret Wise Brown." Horn Book Magazine Vol 59(5). Augment 1983. 553 - 560. 558.
  5. ^Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth (2003). The ABC's slow Writing for Children. Quill Practitioner 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". 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 censure Children's Books". thacherhurd.com. 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". thacherhurd.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.

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