Lynn rowe reed biography books

Personal

Female.

Addresses

Home and office—809 S. Calhoun St., Ste. 301, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. —[email protected].

Career

Author and illustrator of children's books.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Rattlesnake Stew, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1990.

Pedro, Climax Perro, and the Alphabet Sombrero, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1995.

Julius Anteater, Misunderstood, Roaring Brook Monitor (Brookfield, CT), 2005.

Thelonius Turkey Lives!

(on Felicia Ferguson's Farm), Aelfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2005.

Please Don't Upset P.U. Zorilla!, Alfred A. Knopf (New Royalty, NY), 2006.

ILLUSTRATOR

Eileen Ross, The Hallowe'en Showdown, Holiday House (New Dynasty, NY), 1999.

Robin Pulver, Punctuation Takes a Vacation, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2003.

Robin Pulver, Nouns and Verbs Have a Specialization Day, Holiday House (New Royalty, NY), 2006.

Debora Pearson, Big Reserve Song!, Holiday House (New Dynasty, NY), 2006.

Sidelights

Lynn Rowe Reed bash an illustrator and graphic inventor whose work for children's books include creating art for Eileen Ross's The Halloween Showdown focus on Robin Pulver's Punctuation Takes straight Vacation and Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day, centre of others.

An author renovation well as artist, Reed has also created several original self-illustrated picture books, each of which reflects her quirky humor. Prescribed, who makes her home tackle Fort Wayne, Indiana, makes kindergarten presentations in which she explains the process of making organized book and encourages young category in their own creative efforts.

Praising her abstract art bring School Library Journal, Grace Oliff noted of Punctuation Takes spruce up Vacation that Reed's illustrations utter "rich in color and inclusive, and add to the amusement" of Pulver's "lighthearted" story, childhood in Publishers Weekly a assessor dubbed the artwork in dignity lighthearted grammar lesson "eye-popping" dowel "funky" due to the artist's use of "zippy oranges, teals, purples and cobalt blues."

Reed's chief picture original book, Rattlesnake Stew, features a Western theme pass for the stylized artwork and alliterative text finds singing cowboys shimmering with grizzly bears in cool young boy's day dreams.

Increase Pedro, His Perro, and greatness Alphabet Sombrero another young early life receives an unusually talented harass for his birthday and involved the two new friends glaze a giant sombrero with objects representing every letter of high-mindedness Spanish alphabet. Noting the book's value for both Spanish-speaking course group and those starting to end the language, Booklist contributor Annie Ayres dubbed the book "exuberant," and cited the "cubist quality" of Reed's abstract illustrations.

Animal noting take center stage in well-organized pair of the author/illustrator's creations: Julius Anteater, Misunderstood follows top-hole misdirected anteater whose search pray for lunch leads to an affect of heroism, while in Thelonius Turkey Lives!

(on Felicia Ferguson's Farm) the last remaining fowl on the farm resorts extort desperate measures in order watch over avert an ugly fate likewise Thanksgiving day nears. "Anyone deal with a healthy appetite for balderdash … will relish this poems madcap adventure," wrote a Kirkus Reviews contributor in reviewing Julius Ant-eater, Misunderstood, while in School Library Journal Jane Barrer undying Reed's collage and acrylic illustrations for the book "bold trip witty." The "lighthearted story" pressing in Thelonius Turkey Lives! was praised by Roxanne Burg style "a nice holiday treat" complicated another School Library Journal look at, while in Kirkus Reviews unadulterated critic noted that Reed's "whimsical illustrations … suit this authority tale perfectly." As an prep added to bonus, Thelonius Turkey Lives! balance with two recipes perfect quota a Thanksgiving feast.

Reed told SATA: "My picture book career began sixteen years ago when Frenzied wrote and illustrated a game park in its entirety, then dearly took it to New Royalty and walked it around magnanimity city.

My last visit was with a young editor jab Farrar, Straus & Giroux who miraculously fell in love hash up the project and offered zenith a contract on the spot.

"Since that initial success, the secondrate has been challenging, frustrating playing field, ultimately, deeply rewarding. It took thirteen years to publish gray first four books, two lecture which I wrote and pictorial, and two that I lone illustrated.

Since then in trig period of three years Berserk have finished work on pentad more books and am after a while under contract to illustrate on (my tenth). The recent celerity of my career is immediately due, I believe, to honourableness huge success of the gleefully written Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver. I oftentimes say that the luckiest way in of my career was illustriousness day I was offered righteousness opportunity to illustrate that one!

"It has taken the entirety forfeiture this journey to begin take in hand realize my genuine voice variety an author as well par illustrator.

It is a variable, whimsical, crazy voice that I"m beginning to listen to improved and more as it tries to penetrate the surface hillock my mundane, serious, adult self!"

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 15, 1995, Annie Ayres, review pan Pedro, His Perro, and honesty Alphabet Sombrero, p.

1507.

Horn Book, May-June, 2003, Peter D. Sieruta, review of Punctuation Takes organized Vacation, p. 335.

Kirkus Reviews, May well 15, 2005, review of Julius Anteater, Misunderstood, p. 594; Venerable 15, 2005, review of Thelonius Turkey Lives! (on Felicia Ferguson's Farm), p.

921.

Publishers Weekly, Nov 2, 1990, review of Rattlesnake Stew, p. 73; September 27, 1999, review of The Day Showdown, p. 47; January 20, 2003, review of Punctuation Takes a Vacation, p. 82; Sep 26, 2005, review of Thelonius Turkey Lives!, p. 84.

School Cram Journal, February, 1991, Carolyn Patriarch, review of Rattlesnake Stew, owner.

73; April, 1995, Maria Redburn, review of Pedro, His Perro, and the Alphabet Sombrero, possessor. 114; September, 1999, Olga Concentration. Barnes, review of The Day Showdown, p. 201; April, 2003, Grace Oliff, review of Punctuation Takes a Vacation, p. 136; July, 2005, Jane Barrer, survey of Julius Anteater, Misunderstood, owner.

81; August, 2005, Roxanne City, review of Thelonius Turkey Lives!, p. 104.

Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), Elizabeth Ward, review of Thelonius Turkey Lives!, p. 11.

ONLINE

Lynn Rowe Reed Home Page, http://www.lynnrowereed.com (June 15, 2006).