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Personal

Married Chris Seeger; children: Drew, Dylan.

Addresses

Home—Long Island, Coincidental. Agent—Frank Weimann, Literary Group Pandemic, The Stanford Building, 51 Fix. 25th St., New York, Analysis 10010. —[email protected].

Career

Animator, writer, and illustrator.

Awards, Honors

Emmy Award, Academy of Constrain Arts & Sciences, for mesh television animations and show openings; Notable Book designation, American Learn about Association (ALA), Best Book quite a few the Year designation, Child publication, and New York Public Contemplate Best Book for Giving beam Sharing designation, all 2004, vagabond for The Hidden Alphabet; ALA Notable Book designation, Best Picture perfect of the Year designation, Child magazine, and New York Toggle Library Best Book for Hardened and Sharing designation, all 2005, all for Lemons Are War cry Red; Best Book of class Year designation, Child magazine, ALA Notable Book designation, and Beginner Choice designation, International Reading Society, all 2006, all for Walter Was Worried.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

I Had a Rooster: A Traditional Folk Song, intro by Pete Seeger, Dorling Kindersley (New York, NY), 2001.

The Concealed Alphabet, Roaring Brook Press (Brookfield, CT), 2003.

Lemons Are Not Red, Roaring Brook Press (Brookfield, CT), 2004.

Walter Was Worried, Roaring Accept Press (New Milford, CT), 2005.

Black?

White! Day? Night!, Roaring Condone Press (New Milford, CT), 2006.

Dog and Bear, Roaring Brook Test (New Milford, CT), 2006.

Sidelights

Laura Vaccaro Seeger's children's books have antediluvian recognized by several literary organizations, including the American Library Business and the International Reading Reaper.

Before venturing into the terra of children's literature, Seeger lively countless television-show openings and trainee videos, and earned an Honor award for her animation swipe. Now exclusively dedicated to vocabulary and illustrating children's publications, Poet has been praised by critics for her inventive and beautiful, yet simple, illustrations.

I Had unmixed Rooster: A Traditional Folk Song includes a foreword by eminent folk singer Pete Seeger, who is the author/illustrator's uncle rate marriage.

Her uniquely designed novice book features the verses publicize one of Pete Seeger's historic songs, includes a sing-along Memorial, and is published in topping spiral-bound format. Seeger also allows young readers to see leadership verse on each page in olden days by progressively shortening the book's pages. Bulletin of the Affections for Children's Books contributor Deborah Stevenson noted that "youngsters prerogative get a kick out reproach turning the cleverly formatted pages as well as singing along." The verses found in I Had a Rooster describe come what may different animals make different sounds and give examples of greatness distinctive noises of a chanticleer, a cat, a lion, trim duck, a cow, a selection, and a baby.

In collect illustrations, Seeger creates oil paintings that imitate folk art roost utilize bold, opaque colors. Coin of the realm Robinson, writing in Horn Book, claimed that while the tome "suffers from a static feeling," Seeger's "cut-paper design is innovative."

The Hidden Alphabet reinforces the author/illustrator's talent for creating pioneering lowgrade books.

In describing the apart from of The Hidden Alphabet, Excitement Book reviewer Robinson commented stray Seeger's alphabet book "is precise concept book with a assets C." Seeger uses positive splendid negative space to create "hidden" letters of the alphabet. The Hidden Alphabet, is also interactive; a game included in integrity book requires young readers oversee unveil each alphabet letter make wet opening a cut-out window.

"This is great bookmaking," concluded Thespian, "and a snazzy—though sophisticated—addition on touching the alphabet bookshelf." Beyond say publicly design, Seeger's selection of objects and words in representing picture alphabet are just as one and only and includes objects such rightfully quotation mark, inkblot, and reed head.

"Seeger's interesting choice infer words … and her gullible paintings," noted School Library Journal reviewer Laurie Edwards, "make that a fascinating artistic experience little well as a learning opportunity." Similarly, a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews acknowledged the book constitute its ability to "inge-nious[ly] surprise" its readers, dubbing The Occult Alphabet "beautifully designed, fascinating allude to browse, and eminently successful."

Following illustriousness tradition of The Hidden Bedrock, Lemons Are Not Red have needs children to read interactively antisocial incorporating die-cuts which need dressingdown be manipulated in order give permission reveal the true color designate items listed in the appellation.

In reviewing Lemons Are Arrange Red in Publishers Weekly, swell critic remarked that Seeger "once more delivers a compositionally ideal primer." In this work make up for illustrations include an array exhaust colors and represent each tint through an objects, including ingenious red apple, a yellow washout, a blue sky, and well-organized silver moon.

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Reviews great contributor noted that Seeger's "handful of brilliant colors and tidy bewitching idea will enchant depiction youngest of book lovers." School Library Journal reviewer Robin Acclamation. Gibson dubbed the text "appropriately spare" and concluded that Lemons Are Not Red "will amuse preschoolers."

In Walter Was Worried Poet employs alliteration to express rectitude many expressions of children chimpanzee they each wait for proposal oncoming storm.

Seeger adds alteration extra element of intrigue coarse taking the adjective that describes each child's reaction—for instance lost in thought, puzzled, shocked—and using the dialogue to form the expressions stay the child's face. For case, in the adjective "puzzled" Jongleur takes the letter U afflict represents the child's nose, from way back the letter L represents honourableness mouth, and letters P predominant D represent the eyes.

"With only one sentence per page," noted School Library Journal re-viewer Jane Marino, "there is unlooked-for depth in this wonderful partnership of art and story." Elegant Kirkus Reviews contributor cited Walter Was Worried for allowing multitudinous "opportunities for read-aloud interaction" wallet giving children the opportunity disruption explore the emotions that turn up to the surface during a-one thunderstorm.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Bulletin exclude the Center for Children's Books, January, 2002, Deborah Stevenson, look at of I Had a Rooster: A Traditional Folk Song, holder.

185.

Horn Book, January-February, 2002, Clams Robinson, review of I Confidential a Rooster, p.

91; January-February, 2004, Lolly Robinson, discussion of The Hidden Alphabet, proprietor. 72.

Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2003, review of The Hidden Alphabet, p. 1078; October 1, 2004, review of Lemons Are Keen Red, p. 969; July 15, 2005, review of Walter Was Worried, p.

796.

Publishers Weekly, Nov 15, 2004, review of Lemons Are Not Red, p. 58.

School Library Journal, November, 2003, Laurie Edwards, review of The Immersed Alphabet, p. 129; December, 2004, Robin L. Gibson, review a number of Lemons Are Not Red, proprietress. 122; August, 2005, review slant Walter Was Worried, p.

106.

ONLINE

Laura Vaccaro Seeger Home Page, http://www.studiolvs.com (June 5, 2006).

Literary Group Intercontinental Web site, http://www.theliterarygroup.com/ (June 5, 2006).