Constantin, Pascale

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Constantin, Pascale

Personal

Born in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Addresses

Home—Montréal, Québec, Canada. Agent—Ronnie Herman, Herman Agency, 350 Central Park W., New York, NY 10025. E-mail—[email protected].

Career

Illustrator.

Awards, Honors

Governor General's Award for Illustrations for Children's Literature nomination, and Grafika Design competition finalist, both 2000, both for Gulp! by Lucie Papineau; Alcuin Society Award honorable mention, Mr. Christie's Book Awards shortlist, and Governor General's Award for Illustrations for Children's Literature nomination, all 2001, all for Alexis, chevalier des nuits by Andrée-Anne Gratton; Governor General's Award for Illustrations for Children's Literature nomination, 2004, for Jurlututu rien ne va plus, by Sylvie Roberge Blanchet; Great Books for Children designation, Canadian Toy Testing Council, 2007, for Camilla Chameleon by Colleen Sydor.

Illustrator

Jean-Pierre Davidts, Le chat gris raconte, Éditions Boréal (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 1996.

Lucie Papineau, Gloups! Bébé-vampire, Dominique et cie. (Saint-Lambert, Québec, Canada), 1999, translation published as Gulp!: Baby Vampire, 1999.

(With others) Henriette Major, Mil comptines, Édition Fides, 1999.

Andrée-Anne Gratton, Alexis, chevalier des nuits, Les 400 Coups (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 2001.

Sonia Sarafati, Quand le monstres se montrent, Les 400 Coups (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 2001.

Sylvie Roberge Blanchet, Jurlututu rien ne va plus: un conte d'Afrique de l'ouest, Le 400 Coups (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 2003.

Mara Rockliff, Next to an Ant, Children's Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Colleen Sydor, Camilla Chameleon, Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2005.

Gilles Tibo, La vie compté de Raoul Lecompte, La Courte échelle (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 2005.

Harriet Ziefert, Danny's Bad Dream, Sterling Publisher (New York, NY), 2006.

Colleen Sydor, Raising a Little Stink, Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2006.

Sylvie Jones, Go Back to Sleep, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2006.

Sylvie Jones, Who's in the Tub?, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2007.

Jason Carter Eaton, The Facttracker, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2008.

Harriet Ziefert, Mother Goose Manners, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2008.

Books featuring Constantin's illustrations have been translated into Spanish.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2005, review of Camilla Chameleon, p. 1035; September 15, 2006, review of Go Back to Sleep, p. 956.

Resource Links, February, 2006, Zoe Johnstone, review of Camilla Chameleon, p. 13; April, 2006, Linda Ludke, review of Raising a Little Stink, p. 12; December, 2006, Adriane Pettit, review of Go Back to Sleep, p. 4.

School Library Journal, March, 2000, Martha Topol, review of Gulp!: Baby Vampire, p. 210; June, 2006, JoAnn Jonas, review of Camilla Chameleon, p. 128.