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Trina Schart Hyman

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Born April 8, 1939
Died November 19, 2004 (65 years old)
16 books
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Trina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939 – November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends. She won the 1985 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges.

Books

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Witch poems

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Eighteen poems about witches by L. Frank Baum, e.e. cummings, Eleanor Farjeon, and others.

The Night Journey

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Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's armies or were murdered in pogroms, a time when nine-year-old Sashie devised a wonderful plan to save her family from danger.

Self-Portrait

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Artist writes of his life and loves, his art, his techniques, and artistic experiments.

Cat poems

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A collection of poems about cats by a variety of poets.

The sleeping beauty

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Through simple text and silhouette illustrations, relates the classic tale of the consequences when, disgruntled at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.

A little alphabet

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Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated with a boy or girl playing with or using objects beginning with that letter.

The alphabet game

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Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a picture surrounded by words beginning with that letter and featuring illustrations of children and the appropriate words.

How six found Christmas

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A little girl's quest for Christmas leads her into the Great Snow Forest where she is joined in her search by a cat, a dog, a hawk, a fox, and a mockingbird.

Fairy poems

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A collection of poems by English and American poets about leprechauns, goblins, and other fairies.

Winter poems

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A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.