Trina schart hyman

Trina Schart Hyman, prolific children's book illustrator and writer, was born on April 8. Here's the artist's likeness from the back cover of the 25th anniversary edition of Saint George and the Dragon, which won the Caldecott Medal. #April8 #OTD

by Terri Windling Maiden-in-a-Tower stories can be found in folk traditions around the world -- but Rapunzel, the best known of these stories, comes from literary sources. The version of Rapunzel we know today was published as a German folk tale by the Brothers Grimm in 1857 -- but it's...

Little Red Riding Hood being trapped and about to get eat up by the Big Bad Wolf illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

Trina Schart Hyman - from The Water of Life

Rapunzel is a german fairy tale about a beautiful young maiden who has been impriosoned in a tower by an evil witch. Here are several retellings of the fairy tale that appeal to modern day teens.

When I turned 8 years old, I had a large birthday party with everyone from my grade and even my teacher in attendance. (I lived in a small town so that puts the numbers into perspective). My teacher gave me the following book: The Everything Book: A Treasury of Things to Make and Do by Eleanor Graham Vance Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman I loved this book. I still have it. It is long out of print. I loved the crafts and ideas in it but the thing that I loved the most were the…

I asked Chris today what makes him feel older- his birthday, or New Years. He said "New Year's" because everyone is celebrating and it's another year passing for everyone, while on your birthday it's just a year passing for you (and you can ignore it if you want to!). I often think about growing old. Madeleine and I even joke about how I was meant to be a grandmother. Maybe that's why these books about time passing and aging always hit me in my chest (I'm looking at you Roxaboxen and…

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Trina Schart Hyman has been my favorite children's illustrator since i found her in the second grade in the library of my elementary school....

The last week has been eventful, well kind of. Last Sunday I cooked Easter dinner for 18. Monday I rested. Tuesday I quit smoking. Wednesday I got sick. Since then I've been sleeping and laying around, turning into a blob. I'm starting to get bored, which I'll take as a sign of getting better. And for once getting sick was a blessing, it helped with the first few difficult days of nicotine withdrawl. In The Quitting Deal written by Tobi Tobias and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, mother…