Moore, Margie

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Moore, Margie

Personal

Born in Belmar, NJ; married; husband's name Kenny; children: three daughters.

Addresses

Home and office—NJ. E-mail—[email protected].

Career

Freelance illustrator. Exhibitions: Artwork from A Gull's Story exhibited at Meridian International Center, 2006.

Awards, Honors

Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice Best-of-the-Year designation, and Best Children's Books of the Year selection, Bank Street College of Education, both 2006, both for Ruby Paints a Picture.

Illustrator

PICTURE BOOKS

Frank Finale, A Gull's Story: A Tale of Learning about Life, the Shore, and the ABCs, Jersey Shore (Bay Head, NJ), 2002.

Jonathan London, Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear, Dutton Children's Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Nursery Rhymes, Publications International (Lincolnwood, IL), 2003.

Susan Hill, Ruby Bakes a Cake, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

Stephanie S. Tolan, Bartholomew's Blessing, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

Susan Hill, Ruby Paints a Picture, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.

Jonathan London, Do Your ABC's, Little Brown Bear, Dutton Children's Books (New York, NY), 2005.

Frank Finale, A Gull's Story, Part 2: Counting at the Shore, Jersey Shore Publications (Bay Head, NJ), 2006.

Susan Hill, Ruby's Perfect Day, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2006.

Joanne Ryder, Bear of My Heart, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2006.

Hope Vestergaard, Hillside Lullaby, Dutton Children's Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Frank Finale, A Gull's Story, Part 3: Colors at the Shore, Jersey Shore Publications (Bay Head, NJ), 2007.

Sidelights

An award winning, self-taught children's book illustrator, Margie Moore developed a deep interest in both art and nature while growing up near the New Jersey shore. Using her signature pen-and-ink and watercolor style, Moore creates images that often incorporate childhood memories and reflect the influences of favorite illustrators such as Beatrix Potter and Nancy Tafuri. Her work

has appeared in books such as Hope Vestergaard's Hillside Lullaby, Joanne Ryder's Bear of My Heart, and Susan Hill's easy-reader series about young Ruby the Raccoon.

In Moore's work for Hillside Lullaby, the illustrator's "luminous" images focusing on sleepy animals and the coming of night "evoke both the cozy comforts of bedtime and the dreamy mystery of the nighttime world," according to Booklist reviewer Gillian Engberg. In School Library Journal, Angela J. Reynolds wrote of the same picture book that "the delightful animals, painted with soft edges, are the main feature here, and youngsters will enjoy nodding off with these gentle, twilight-hued images in their heads," while a Kirkus Reviews critic called the book "a must for every child with a window to the great outdoors and a heart that will listen to nature's song. Reviewing Bear of My Heart, a Publishers Weekly critic maintained that the "velvety textures and soft hues" featured in Moore's watercolors "convey an idyllic life," and Booklist reviewer Hazel Rochman noted that Ruby's Perfect Day, a collaboration between Moore and Hill, is enriched by "exuberant line-and-watercolor pictures [that] show the small raccoon as part of a cheerful community."

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 15, 2005, Jennifer Locke, review of Do Your ABC's, Little Brown Bear, p. 1460; May 15,

2005, Hazel Rochman, review of Ruby Paints a Picture, p. 1665; February 15, 2006, Gillian Engberg, review of Hillside Lullaby, p. 105; December 1, 2006, Hazel Rochman, review of Ruby's Perfect Day, p. 52.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April, 2005, Karen Coats, review of Do Your ABC's Little Brown Bear, p. 346; April, 2006, Deborah Stevenson, review of Hillside Lullaby, p. 375.

Horn Book, March-April, 2005, Susan Dove Lempke, review of Do Your ABC's, Little Brown Bear, p. 191.

Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2001, review of Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear, p. 1613; April 15, 2004, review of Ruby Bakes a Cake, p. 394; November 1, 2004, Stephanie S. Tolan, review of Bartholomew's Blessing, p. 1054; May 15, 2005, review of Ruby Paints a Picture, p. 590; March 1, 2006, review of Hillside Lullaby, p. 241.

Publishers Weekly, November 19, 2001, review of Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear, p. 66; September 27, 2004, review of Bartholomew's Blessing, p. 62; January 31, 2005, review of Little Brown Bear, p. 69; December 4, 2006, review of Bear of My Heart, p. 57.

School Arts, January, 2007, Ken Marantz, review of Ruby Paints a Picture, p. 54.

School Library Journal, April, 2002, Gay Lynn Van Vleck, review of Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear, p. 116; June, 2004, Melinda Piehler, review of Elvis the Rooster and the Magic Words, p. 104; March, 2005, Linda L. Walkins, review of Do Your ABC's, Little Brown Bear, p. 175; July, 2005, Corrina Austin, review of Ruby Paints a Picture, p. 75; February, 2006, Angela J. Reynolds, review of Hillside Lullaby, p. 111; October, 2006, Susan Lissim, review of Ruby's Perfect Day, p. 112.