Beth Krommes
Beth Krommes | |
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| Krommes at the Mazza Museum in 2010 Krommes at the Mazza Museum in 2010 | |
| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Period | 1999–present |
| Genre | Children's picture books |
| Notable works | The House in the Night |
| Notable awards | Caldecott Medal 2009 |
Beth Krommes (born 1956) is an American illustrator of children's books. Her work has won several honors, including the 2002 Golden Kite Award and the 2009 Caldecott Medal.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Krommes was born in Pennsylvania in 1956.[1][2] She attended Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in painting, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned an MAT in art education.[3] She has been illustrating children's books since 1989.[1] Her illustrations for The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish won her the 2001 Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration.[4] In 2009, she won the Caldecott Medal for her work on The House in the Night.[1] She is married, has two daughters[3] and lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[2]
- Grandmother Winter, written by Phyllis Root (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999)
- The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, Jacqueline Briggs Martin (HM, 2001)
- The Sun in Me: Poems About the Planet (Cambridge: Barefoot Books, 2003), anthology, ed. Judith Nicholls, 40 pp., OCLC 51724851
- The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies and Other Secret Beings, Lise Lunge-Larsen (HM, 2004), 72 pp.
- Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Joyce Sidman (HM, 2006)
- The House in the Night, Susan Marie Swanson (HM, 2008)
- Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Joyce Sidman (HM, 2011)
- Blue on Blue, Dianne White (Beach Lane Books) – September 2014, LCCN 2012-14239
- Before Morning, Joyce Sidman (HMH, 2016)
References
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External links
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- Official website
- Beth Krommes at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalog records
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