Laura vaccaro seeger biography of abraham lincoln

Interview with Horn Book's Roger Sutton

Laura Seeger

With Red, Laura Vaccaro Seeger completes a picture-book trilogy begun with Greenin and continued with Blue in (We talk below about the possibilities of yellow, but Laura insists she is done.)

Roger Sutton: Terry [Borzumato-Greenberg; VP, marketing and publicity at Holiday House] sent me a copy of Red. I’ve been working from digital books for so long, it was a real pleasure to hold this in my hands.
Laura Vaccaro Seeger: I know what you mean. Especially books like this — they don’t translate well into digital form.

RS: I know, it’s tough. When I looked at the PDF, I’d forgotten that there would probably be cutouts.
LVS: Which are really important, and then it gets completely lost in the digital format.

RS: You’ve always been a very hands-on book creator.
LVS: The tangible part of books is something I really enjoy.

RS: And still using acrylic paint.
LVS: Yes.

RS: You wrote about your love for it in the Horn Book some years ago. “Push the Paint."
LVS: That’s right! You have a wonderful memory.

RS: No, I looked it up. How do you marry your deligh

Green:

March 14,
Sometimes you just want to show a kid a beautiful picture book. Sometimes you also want that book to be recent. That’s the tricky part. Not that there aren’t pretty little picture books churned out of publishing houses every day. Of course there are. But when you want something that distinguishes itself and draws attention without sparkles or glitter the search can be a little fraught. We children’s librarians sit and wait for true beauty to fall into our laps. The last time I saw it happen was Jerry Pinkney’s The Lion and the Mouse. Now I’m seeing it again with Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s Green. I mean just look at that cover. I vacillate between wanting to smear those thick paints with my hands and wanting to lick it to see if it tastes like green frosting. If my weirdness is any kind of a litmus test, kids will definitely get a visceral reaction when they flip through the pages. I know we’re talking colors here but if I were to capture this book in a single word then there's only one that would do: Delicious.

Open the book and the first pictures you see are of a woodland scene. Two leaves hang off a nearby tree as the text reads “forest green”. Turn the pag

Abraham Lincoln

Who Was Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln was the 16thpresident of the United States, serving from to , and is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes due to his roles in guiding the Union through the Civil War and working to emancipate enslaved people. His eloquent support of democracy and insistence that the Union was worth saving embody the ideals of self-government that all nations strive to achieve. In , he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves across the Confederacy. Lincoln’s rise from humble beginnings to achieving the highest office in the land is a remarkable story, and his death is equally notably. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in , at age 56, as the country was slowly beginning to reunify following the war. Lincoln’s distinctively humane personality and incredible impact on the nation have endowed him with an enduring legacy.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Abraham Lincoln
BORN: February 12,
DIED: April 15,
BIRTHPLACE: Hodgenville, Kentucky
SPOUSE: Mary Todd Lincoln (m. )
CHILDREN: Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
HEIGHT: 6 fe

Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and a 2-time winner of the Caldecott Honor Award, winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book, and a 2-time winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award. She is also the recipient of both the Massachusetts Reading Association and the New York Empire State awards for “Body of Work and Contribution to Children’s Literature”.

Laura’s paintings have been exhibited at many museums and galleries including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the Mazza Museum of Picture Book Art, the Society of Illustrators, the New York Public Library, and the New York Nassau County Museum of Art.

Laura grew up on Long Island, New York, with her parents, Vera and Phil, brothers, Billy and Tommy, sister, Linda, and both grandmothers. She began drawing at two years old and never stopped. She earned her BFA degree at the School of Fine Art and Design at the State University of New York at Purchase in Westchester, New York. She then moved to Manhattan and began a career as an animator, artist, designer, and edito

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