Banta, Susan

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Banta, Susan

Personal

Born in Washington, DC; married; husband a retired librarian; children. Education: Syracuse University School of Art, graduate. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, quilting, gardening, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and yoga.

Addresses

Home and office—133 Apple St., Brookfield, VT 05036. Agent—BookMakers, Ltd., P.O. Box 1086, Taos, NM 87571.

Career

Illustrator.

Illustrator

PICTURE BOOKS

William P. Nestor, Into Winter: Discovering a Season, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1982.

Hello, Hello!, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1993.

Shapes/Opposites/Animals/Colors (board books), 4 volumes, McClanahan Books (New York, NY), 1993.

What Can I Give Him? (from a poem by Christina Rosetti), Standard Publishing (Cincinnati, OH), 1994.

Bananas, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1994.

Apple, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1994.

Grapes, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1994.

The Wheels on the Bus, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1994.

Orange, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1994.

My Little Lambs, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1995.

My Little Ducklings, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1995.

My Little Chicks, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1995.

My Little Bunnies, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1995.

E.K. Davis, My Golden Books Alphabet, Western Pub. Co. (Racine, WI), 1996.

E.K. Davis, My Golden Books Alphabet, Golden Books Pub. Co. (New York, NY), 1999.

Joe Troiano, The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, Backpack Books, 2001.

Did You Ever See a Duckie?, Publications International (Lincolnwood, IL), 2001.

Helen Haidle, Thank You, Dear God!, Zonderkidz (Grand Rapids, MI), 2001.

Helen Haidle, God Bless Me, Zonderkidz (Grand Rapids, MI), 2001.

Joe Troiano, Beacon, the Bright Little Firefly, Sweetwater Press (Birmingham, AL), 2002.

Kathleen Long Bostrom, Mary's Happy Christmas Day, Zonderkidz (Grand Rapids, MI), 2003.

Lourdes M. Alvarez, Pardon My Spanish: La Leyenda del Coquí, Mi Casa (Puerto Rico), 2003.

Matt Mitter, Once upon a Rhyme: Story Rhymes, Gareth Stevens Pub. (Milwaukee, WI), 2004.

Mary Packard, Same and Different: Comparison Rhymes, Gareth Stevens Pub. (Milwaukee, WI), 2004.

Charlotte Cowan, Peeper Has a Fever, Hippocratic Press (Concord, MA), 2005.

Carol J. Votaw, Good Morning, Little Polar Bear, North-Word Books for Young Readers (Minnetonka, MN), 2005.

Joe Troiano, Halloween Fun with Spookley the Square Pumpkin, Sterling Publishing Co. (New York, NY), 2006.

Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud, Bubble and Squeak, Marshall Cavendish (New York, NY), 2006.

Carol J. Votaw, Waking up Down Under, NorthWord Books for Young Readers (Minnetonka, MN), 2007.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Library Media Connection, February, 2006, Susanne Johnson, review of Good Morning, Little Polar Bear, p. 64.

Publishers Weekly, September 22, 2003, review of Mary's Happy Christmas Day, p. 73.

School Library Journal, August, 2004, Robyn Walker, review of Once upon a Rhyme: Story Rhymes, p. 11; November, 2005, Angela J. Reynolds, review of Good Morning, Little Polar Bear, p. 122; October, 2006, Jayne Damron, review of Bubble and Squeak, p. 102.