Ed Emberley
Edward Randolph Emberley (born 19 October 1931 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American painter, author and illustrator.
Life and work
Emberley studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston, and received his Bachelor of Arts with the emphasis painting and illustration. After a two-year interruption by military service he completed his studies at the Rhode Iceland School of Design. Since 1960, Emberley has been working as a freelance artist.
Emberley made illustrations for numerous children's and non-fiction. He has also written various characters even books like My First Sign Book ( Ed Emberley 's Drawing Book), in which he gives kleinschrittige instructions for partly complex images from simple shapes children.
Since 1955 Emberley is married to the librarian and author Barbara Emberley, with whom he has jointly published several books. The couple has two children.
Awards
For his works Emberley has received numerous honors. Already his first work, The Wing on a Flea, earned him a 1961 entry in the list of bestillustrierten Books of the Year at the New York Times one. In 1967 he received the Caldecott Honor had written the text for the illustration for One Wide River to Cross, for Barbara Emberley. The following year, he was even the winner of the Caldecott Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for the Illustration of the also written by his wife, children's book Drummer Hoff.