Miller, Edward 1964-

Personal

Born 1964.

Addresses

Home—New York, NY. E-mail—[email protected].

Career

Illustrator and author of children's books. Designer of greeting cards for Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Elf Elementary, Harry N. Abrams (New York, NY), 2004.

The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active, and Feeling Great for Monsters and Kids!, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2006.

Captain Barnacle's Aquarium, Abrams (New York, NY), 2006.

Three Tales Retold and Illustrated: The Three Little Pigs; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Three Billy Goats Gruff, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2007.

The Tooth Book: A Guide to Healthy Teeth, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2007.

ILLUSTRATOR

Ryan Ann Hunter, Cross a Bridge, Holiday House (New York, NY), 1998.

Stuart J. Murphy, Circus Shapes, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.

Franklyn Branley, Is There Life in Outer Space?, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.

Ryan Ann Hunter, Dig a Tunnel, Holiday House (New York, NY), 1999.

Cooper Edens, The Animal Mall, Dial (New York, NY), 2000.

Monique Z. Stephens, A to Z Aliens, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 2001.

Paul Showers, What Happens to a Hamburger?, new edition, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.

Barbara Seuling, From Head to Toe: The Amazing Human Body and How It Works, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2002.

Franklyn Branley, The Sun: Our Nearest Star, new edition, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.

Debora Pearson, Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2003.

Stuart J. Murphy, A House for Birdie, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

Peter Mandel, Planes at the Airport, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2004.

Paul Showers, A Drop of Blood, new edition, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

Peter Mandel, Boats on the River, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2004.

David A. Adler, You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-solving Fun, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2006.

Franklyn Branley, Gravity Is a Mystery, new edition, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2007.

David A. Adler, Working with Fractions, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2007.

ILLUSTRATOR; "1-2-3" SERIES

Kimberly Weinberger, Home Depot: Build Your Own Toolbox, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

Kimberly Weinberger, Home Depot: Build Your Own Birdhouse, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

Kimberly Weinberger, Home Depot: Build Your Own Picture-Frame Bookends, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2002.

Kimberly Weinberger, Home Depot: Build Your Own Wishing-Well Bank, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2002.

Sidelights

Edward Miller, a freelance illustrator based in New York City, has created digitally based art for picture-book texts by noted nonfiction authors such as Paul Showers, David A. Adler, and Franklyn Branley. Appraising Adler's You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-solving Fun, a Kirkus Reviews contributor wrote that "Miller's illustrations keep the details simple so that children can use [his] … pictures to help them solve the problems." Several of the books Miller has illustrated for Showers and Branley are updated versions of favorite texts, such as The Sun: Our Nearest Star, which Booklist reviewer Carolyn Phelan dubbed "a handsome new edition" featuring "pleasing" computer-generated cartoon art. Miller's illustrations for Boats on the River "more than make up" for a sometimes-confusing text, according to Gillian Engberg in another Booklist review. In addition to book illustration, Miller has also produced greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art.

Miller's first original, self-illustrated story, Elf Elementary, finds a young elf named Franklin looking forward to his first day at elementary elf school, where he will study Christmas traditions and learn skills—learning how to deal with fireplace soot, for example—useful to a future Santa's helper. A more generally useful skill set is the focus of The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active, and Feeling Great for Monsters and Kids!, in which a jolly green monster introduces healthy-body-building basics. In a Publishers Weekly review of Elf Elementary a critic noted the "graphically crisp" images Miller pairs with his holiday story. Chock full of silliness, The Monster Health Book was praised by School Library Journal reviewer Lee Bock as a "lively" and "visually appealing" picture book that "belongs in children's hands" due to its valuable subject matter.

Miller continues to entertain young readers in Captain Barnacle's Aquarium. Here an elderly swashbuckling pirate with a parrot perched on his shoulder acts as tour guide to a group of young students visiting a marine aquarium. In colorful and informative prose, the old salt describes how he sailed the seven seas, was captured and then escaped from ruthless pirates, and ultimately decided to use his pirate treasure to build an aquarium to house all the amazing sea creatures he has discovered. Miller mixes the pirate's colorful story with facts about ocean-dwelling creatures, and ends his book with a glossary of pirate terms. Reviewing Captain Barnacle's Aquarium for School Library Journal, Debbie Stewart Hoskins wrote that Miller's "brightly colored, graphic-style" art serves as a captivating "introduction to … the riches of the sea."

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July, 2002, Carolyn Phelan, review of The Sun: Our Nearest Star, p. 1851; March 15, 2004, Hazel Rochman, review of A House for Birdie, p. 1307; May 15, 2004, Gillian Engberg, review of Boats on the River, p. 1622; August, 2004, Carolyn Phelan, review of A Drop of Blood, p. 1939; May 15, 2006, Gillian Engberg, review of The Monster Heath Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active, and Feeling Great for Monsters and Kids!, p. 48.

Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2002, review of From Head to Toe: The Amazing Human Body and How It Works, p. 1236; May 15, 2006, review of Captain Barnacle's Aquarium, p. 521; August 1, 2006, review of You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-solving Fun, p. 779.

Publishers Weekly, September 27, 2004, review of Elf Elementary, p. 62.

School Library Journal, July, 2002, John Peters, review of The Sun, p. 104; November, 2002, Dona Ratterree, review of From Head to Toe, p. 148; September, 2003, Judith Constantinides, review of Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC, p. 204; May 15, 2004, Gillian Engberg, review of Boats on the River, p. 1622; October, 2004, Erlene Bishop Kileen, review of A House for Birdie, p. 146; June, 2006, Lee Bock, review of The Monster Heath Book, p. 138; August, 2006, Debbie Stewart Hoskins, review of Captain Barnacle's Aquarium, p. 93.