Emberley, Barbara A(nne) 1932-

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EMBERLEY, Barbara A(nne) 1932-

PERSONAL: Born December 12, 1932, in Chicago, IL; maiden name, Collins; married Edward Randolph Emberley (a writer, artist, and designer), 1955; children: Rebecca Anne, Michael Edward. Education: Massachusetts School of Art, B.F.A. Hobbies and other interests: Sailing.

ADDRESSES: Home and Office—6 Water St., Ipswich, MA 01938; 6 Sanctuary Rd., North Conway, NH 03860-5918.

CAREER: Author, reteller, and illustrator of children's books; also worked as a librarian at Brown University, Providence, RI. Founder, with husband, Ed Emberley, of Bird in the Bush Press.

AWARDS, HONORS: One Wide River to Cross, illustrated by Ed Emberley, received an Art Books for Children citation, Brooklyn Public Library, 1966, and was named a Caldecott Honor Book, American Library Association (ALA), 1967; Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley, won the Caldecott Medal, ALA, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, both 1968.

WRITINGS:

illustrated by husband, ed emberley

Night's Nice, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1963.

(Reteller) The Story of Paul Bunyan, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1963, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1994.

(Reteller) One Wide River to Cross, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1966, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1992.

(Reteller) Drummer Hoff, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1967, published as a board book, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1987.

Simon's Song, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1969.

illustrator; with husband, ed emberley

Seymour Simon, The BASIC Book, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1985.

Seymour Simon, Bits and Bytes: A Computer Dictionary for Beginners, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1985.

Seymour Simon, How to Talk to Your Computer, Crowell (New York, NY), 1985.

Seymour Simon, Meet the Computer, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1985.

Franklyn M. Branley, Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1985.

Seymour Simon, Turtle Talk: A Beginner's Book of LOGO, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1986.

Franklyn M. Branley, The Moon Seems to Change, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1987.

ADAPTATIONS: Drummer Hoff was adapted for film by Gene Deitch and released by Weston Woods, 1969; it was released as both a sound filmstrip and, later, a video. The Story of Paul Bunyan was released as a filmstrip by Educational Enrichment Materials, 1969.

SIDELIGHTS: For sidelights, see sketch on husband, Ed Emberley.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

Emberley, Ed, Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1970.

Emberley, Ed, Go Away, Big Green Monster!, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1992.

Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Books Are by People: Interviews with 104 Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People, Citation Press (New York, NY), 1969.

Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Pauses: Autobiographical Reflections of 101 Creators of Children's Books, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.

periodicals

Booklist, October, 1998, Kathleen Squires, review of Three: An Emberley Family Sketchbook, p. 96.

Boston Globe, October 19, 1997, Liz Rosenberg, "The New Flexibility of the Board Book," p. P5.

Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books, May 14, 1961, Joan Beck, review of The Wing on a Flea: A Book about Shapes, section 2, p. 2.

Christian Science Monitor, May 7, 1970, Pamela Marsh, review of Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, p. B1.

Horn Book, February, 1964, Virginia Haviland, review of The Story of Paul Bunyan, p. 48; August, 1968, Barbara Emberley, "Ed Emberley," pp. 403-406; August, 1968, Ed Emberley, "Caldecott Award Acceptance," pp. 399-402; August, 1978, Ethel L. Heins, review of Ed Emberley's ABC, pp. 386-387; March, 1995, review of The Story of Paul Bunyan, p. 222.

Instructor, May, 1995, Judy Freeman, review of Go Away, Big Green Monster!, p. 78.

Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 1966, review of One Wide River to Cross, p. 683; March 15, 2003, review of Thanks, Mom!

Library Journal, December 15, 1967, Della Thomas, review of Drummer Hoff, p. 602.

New York Times Book Review, May 14, 1961, review of The Wing on a Flea, p. 35; January 26, 1964, Barbara Wersba, review of The Story of Paul Bunyan, p. 26; October 16, 1966, Barbara Novak O'Doherty, review of One Wide River to Cross, p. 38; November 5, 1967, Eve Merriam, review ofDrummer Hoff, p. 71; March 1, 1970, George A. Woods, review of Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, p. 34; July 2, 1978, Selma G. Lanes, review of Ed Emberley's ABC, p. 11.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Magazine, March 21, 2000, Karen MacPherson, "Artful Books Open Up World of Art to the Young."

Portsmouth Herald, September 30, 2003, Jeanne McCartin, "A Story-Book Existence."

Publishers Weekly, December 26, 1966, review of One Wide River to Cross, p. 99; July 25, 1980, "Ed Emberley," pp. 78-79; March 29, 1993, review of Go Away, Big Green Monster!, p. 54; March 24, 2003, review of Thanks, Mom!, p. 74.

School Library Journal, October, 1963, Eileen Lampert, review of Night's Nice, p. 190; March, 1968, Jean Reynolds, "Ed Emberley," pp. 113-114; September, 1978, Gemma DeVinney, review of Ed Emberley's ABC, p. 107.

Time, December 21, 1970, Timothy Foote, review of Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, p. 68.