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Vanessa Newton
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Way back in 'Once Upon a Time' time, there was a little girl of only three who found a box of crayons and wished to be an artist. She used many surfaces as a canvas, such as white walls and the sides of the kitchen stove. This drove her young parents crazy and they quickly purchased a pad of paper for her. They sent her off to school where she met a wonderful teacher who was also an artist. This teacher would leave a lasting effect on her for years to come. Vanessa knew that she wanted to be an artist just like her teacher. Vanessa is now living her dream of being a freelance illustrator. She is a self taught artist and has attended both F.I.T and SVA of New York where she studied fashion and children's book illustration. Vanessa is the illustrator of the new book series released by Scholastic, Ruby and The Booker Boys. Her first author/illustrated book, Let Freedom Sing, was published by Blue Apple Books in 2009. Vanessa describes herself as a retro girl and it shows up in her illustrations. She is a big fan of illustrators such as Ezra Jack Keats, Ludwig Bemelmans, Fiep Westendorp, Mary Blair and Bill Brown, to name a few. Vanessa hopes that when people look at her work, it will make them smile and feel happy in some way, or even reclaim a bit of their childhood.
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Reviews
Praise for Let Freedom Sing, written and illustrated by Vanessa Newton, published by Blue Apple Books 2009: "A picture book that will encourage adults and preschoolers to sing along together, this exuberant celebration of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and '60s uses as its refrain the children's gospel song 'This Little Light of Mine,' which became an anthem of the time. The portraits and crowd scenes in the bright, handsome collage artwork honor both the movement's leaders and its ordinary people who 'let their light shine.'" Booklist "The well-designed book features large, colorful, deceptively simple images highlighting significant dates and events in the African-American struggle for equality. The illustrations are thought-provoking and sure to prompt questions such as, why, in one spread, the children on one page are black and entering a school, or drinking from a water fountain, while on the opposite page, all the children are white and walking toward another school, and drinking from a separate fountain." School Library Journal |
Drum City (Tricycle Press) Don't Let Aunt Mabel Bless the Table (forthcoming from Blue Apple Books) Presenting...Tallulah (fortcoming from Simon and Schuster) Let Freedom Sing (Blue Apple Books) Ruby and the Booker Boys: The Slumber Party Payback (Scholastic) Ruby and the Booker Boys: Trivia Queen, Third Grade Supreme (Scholastic) Ruby and the Booker Boys: Brand New School, Brave New Ruby (Scholastic) |
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