Trina Schart Hyman's self-portrait from Trina Schart Hyman: A Self-Portrait (Addison Wesley, 1981).

Trina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939 - November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator.

She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and won four Caldecott awards. A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving

Biography

Born in Philadelphia to Margaret Doris Bruck and Albert H. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Schart, she grew up in a rural area of Pennsylvania and learned to read and draw at an early age. Her favorite story as a child was Little Red Riding Hood, and she spent an entire year of her childhood wearing a red cape. Little Red Riding Hood is a famous fairy tale about a young girl's encounter with a wolf

She enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts in 1956, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1959 after marrying Harris Hyman, a mathematician and engineer. The University of the Arts (UArts is one of the nation’s oldest universities dedicated to the arts She graduated from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1960. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (also known as the Museum School or SMFA) is an undergraduate and graduate College located in

The couple then moved to Stockholm, Sweden for two years, where Trina studied at the Konstfackskolan (Swedish State Art School) and illustrated her first children's book called Toffe och den lilla bilen (Toffe and the Little Car). ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the

In 1963 the couple's daughter, Katrin Hyman, was born, but in 1968 they divorced, and Trina and Katrin moved to New Hampshire. New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Trina lived for some time with the children's writer and editor Barbara Rogasky (with whom she collaborated on several projects). For about the last decade of her life, her partner was teacher Jean K. Aull[1].

Trina Schart Hyman served as art director of Cricket Magazine from 1973 to 1979. The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in Advertising, Publishing, film and Television, the Internet Cricket is an illustrated literary Magazine for Children published in the United States, founded in September 1973, Her books have won numerous awards, including the Caldecott medal for illustrating Little Red Riding Hood in 1984, the Caldecott medal for Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges in 1985, and Caldecott honors for Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel in 1990 and A Child's Calendar by John Updike in 2000; an honor book in the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for illustration in 1968 for All in Free but Janey and in 1978 for On to Widecombe Fair, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for illustration in 1973 for King Stork. Margaret "Peggy" Hodges ( July 26, 1911 &ndash December 13, 2005) was a Caldecott Award -winning American Writer Eric A Kimmel (born 1946 is an American Jewish author of more than 50 children's books John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American Novelist, Poet, Short story The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were first presented by The Boston Globe and Horn Book Magazine in 1967.

She is also considered one of the first white American illustrators to regularly incorporate black characters into her illustrations, as a matter of principle, in large part triggered by her daughter's marriage to a man from Cameroon. The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central and western Africa. Her grandchildren appear in several of her books.

She died from breast cancer, aged 65, on November 19, 2004. Breast cancer is a Cancer that starts in the cells of the Breast in women and men The third book she completed with her daughter, Katrin Tchana, was published in 2006: Changing Woman and Her Sisters, Goddesses from Around the World.

Works

Wrote/Adapted and Illustrated

• How Six Found Christmas, 1969.
• (Reteller) The Sleeping Beauty, from the Brothers Grimm, 1977. Sleeping Beauty ( "La Belle au Bois dormant" (The Beauty asleep in the wood is a Fairy tale classic the first in the set published in 1697 by The Brothers Grimm ( German: Die Gebrüder Grimm) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,
• A Little Alphabet, 1980.
• Self-Portrait: Trina Schart Hyman, 1981.
• (Reteller) Little Red Riding Hood, from the Brothers Grimm, 1983. Little Red Riding Hood is a famous fairy tale about a young girl's encounter with a wolf The Brothers Grimm ( German: Die Gebrüder Grimm) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,
• The Enchanted Forest, 1984.

Illustrated

• Hertha Von Gebhardt, Toffe och den lilla bilen, 1961.
• Carl Memling, Riddles, Riddles, from A to Z, 1963.
• Melanie Bellah, Bow Wow! Meow!, 1963.
• Sandol S. Warburg, Curl Up Small, 1964.
• Eileen O'Faolain, Children of the Salmon, 1965.
• All Kinds of Signs, 1965.
• Ruth Sawyer, Joy to the World: Christmas Legends, 1966. Ruth Sawyer was the professional name of Ruth Sawyer Durand ( August 5, 1880 - June 3, 1970) an American writer of children's books
• Joyce Varney, The Magic Maker, 1966.
• Virginia Haviland, reteller, Favourite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia, 1966. Virginia Haviland ( May 21, 1911 &ndash January 19, 1988) was a retired director of the Children's Literature Center at the Library
• Edna Butler Trickey, Billy Finds Out, 1966.
• E. B. Trickey, Billy Celebrates, 1966.
• Jacob D. Townsend, The Five Trials of the Pansy Bed, 1967.
• Elizabeth Johnson, Stuck with Luck, 1967.
• Josephine Poole, Moon Eyes, 1967.
• John T. Moore, Cinnamon Seed, 1967.
• Paul Tripp, The Little Red Flower, 1968.
• Eve Merriam, reteller, Epaminondas, 1972.
• J. Varney, The Half-Time Gypsy, 1968.
• E. Johnson, All in Free but Janey, 1968.
• Norah Smaridge, I Do My Best, 1968.
• Betty M. Owen and Mary MacEwen, editors, Wreath of Carols, 1968.
• Tom McGowen, Dragon Stew, 1969.
• Susan Meyers, The Cabin on the Fjord, 1969.
• Peter Hunter Blair, The Coming of Pout, 1969.
• Clyde R. Bulla, The Moon Singer, 1969.
• Ruth Nichols, A Walk Out of the World, 1969. Joanna Ruth Nichols (b March 4, 1948 in Toronto) is a Canadian Author, primarily of Children's literature and Historical
• Claudia Paley, Benjamin the True, 1969.
• P. Tripp, The Vi-Daylin Book of Minnie the Mump, 1970.
• Donald J. Sobol, Greta the Strong, 1970. Donald J Sobol (born October 4, 1924) is an award-winning writer living in Miami, Florida.
• Blanche Luria Serwer, reteller, Let's Steal the Moon: Jewish Tales, Ancient and Recent, 1970.
• Mollie Hunter, The Walking Stones: A Story of Suspense, 1970. Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, more commonly known as Mollie Hunter (born 1922 is a Scottish Writer.
• T. McGowen, Sir Machinery, 1970.
• Phyllis Krasilovsky, The Shy Little Girl, 1970.
• The Pumpkin Giant, retold by Ellin Greene, 1970.
• Wylly Folk St. John, The Ghost Next Door, 1971.
• Osmond Molarsky, The Bigger They Come, 1971.
• O. Molarsky, Take It or Leave It, 1971.
• Carolyn Meyer, The Bread Book: All about Bread and How to Make It, 1971.
• E. Johnson, Break a Magic Circle, 1971.
• E. Greene, reteller, Princess Rosetta and the Popcorn Man, 1971.
• Eleanor Cameron, A Room Made of Windows, 1971.
• Eleanor Clymer, How I Went Shopping and What I Got, 1972.
• Dori White, Sarah and Katie, 1972.
• Ruth Nichols, The Marrow of the World, 1972.
• Eva Moore, The Fairy Tale Life of Hans Christian Andersen, 1972.
• Jan Wahl, Magic Heart, 1972.
• P. Krasilovsky, The Popular Girls Club, 1972.
• Paula Hendrich, Who Says So?, 1972.
• Myra Cohn Livingston, editor, Listen, Children, Listen: An Anthology of Poems for the Very Young, 1972.
• Carol Ryrie Brink, The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein, 1972. Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981 was a United States author of children's fiction
• Howard Pyle, King Stork, 1973. Howard Pyle ( March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American Illustrator and writer primarily of books for young audiences
• Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling and Two Other Stories, edited by Lillian Moore, 1973. Hans Christian Andersen (ˈhanˀs ˈkʰʁæʂd̥jan ˈɑnɐsn̩ in Danish or simply H
• Phyllis La Farge, Joanna Runs Away, 1973.
• E. Greene, compiler, Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Recipes and Riddles, 1973.
• C. R. Brink, Caddie Woodlawn, revised edition, 1973.
• Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Wanderers, 1973.
• Eleanor G. Vance, The Everything Book, 1974.
• Doris Gates, Two Queens of Heaven: Aphrodite and Demeter, 1974.
• Dorothy S. Carter, editor, Greedy Mariani and Other Folktales of the Antilles, 1974.
• Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin, 1974. Charles Causley, CBE ( 24 August 1917 &ndash 4 November 2003) was a Cornish Poet and Writer. Figgie Hobbin Poems for Children is a Children's poetry collection written by English poet Charles Causley and first published in 1970.
• Charlotte Herman, You've Come a Long Way, Sybil McIntosh: A Book of Manners and Grooming for Girls, 1974.
• J. Grimm and W. Grimm, Snow White, translated from the German by Paul Heins, 1974.
• Jean Fritz, Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?, 1974. Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer
• March Wiesbauer, The Big Green Bean, 1974.
• Tobi Tobias, The Quitting Deal, 1975.
• Margaret Kimmel, Magic in the Mist, 1975.
• Jane Curry, The Watchers, 1975.
• Louise Moeri, Star Mother's Youngest Child, 1975.
• Jean Fritz, Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?, 1976.
• Daisy Wallace, editor, Witch Poems, 1976.
• William Sleator, Among the Dolls, 1976. William Warner Sleator III (born February 13[[ 945]] known as William Sleator, is an American Science fiction author who writes primarily
• Tobi Tobias, Jane, Wishing, 1977.
• Spiridon Vangheli, Meet Guguze, 1977.
• Norma Farber, Six Impossible Things before Breakfast, 1977.
• Betsy Hearne, South Star, 1977.
• Patricia Gauch, On to Widecombe Fair, 1978.
• Betsy Hearne, Home, 1979.
• Norma Farber, How Does It Feel to Be Old?, 1979.
• Pamela Stearns, The Mechanical Doll, 1979.
• Barbara S. Hazen, Tight Times, 1979.
• Daisy Wallace, editor, Fairy Poems, 1980.
• J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, 1980. Sir James Matthew Barrie 1st Baronet OM ( 9 May, 1860 &ndash 19 June, 1937) more commonly known as J Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J
• Elizabeth G. Jones, editor, Ranger Rick's Holiday Book, 1980.
• Kathryn Lasky, The Night Journey, 1981. Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books including several Dear America books several Royal Diaries books 1984 Newbery Honor
• Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books, 1981.
• J. Grimm and W. Grimm, Rapunzel, retold by Barbara Rogasky, 1982.
• Margaret Mary Kimmel and Elizabeth Segel, For Reading Out Loud! A Guide to Sharing Books with Children, 1983.
• Mary Calhoun, Big Sixteen, 1983.
• Astrid Lindgren, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, 1983. Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren ( Née Ericsson 14 November 1907 &ndash 28 January 2002 was a Swedish children's book author and Screenwriter For the 1984 film see Ronia the Robber's Daughter (film. Ronia the Robber's Daughter ( Swedish Ronja Rövardotter
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol: In Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 1983. A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is a Novella by Charles Dickens
• M. C. Livingston, Christmas Poems, 1984.
• (With Hilary Knight and others) Pamela Espeland and Marilyn Waniek, The Cat Walked through the Casserole: And Other Poems for Children, 1984.
• Margaret Hodges, Saint George and the Dragon: A Golden Legend Adapted from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen, 1984. Margaret "Peggy" Hodges ( July 26, 1911 &ndash December 13, 2005) was a Caldecott Award -winning American Writer
• Elizabeth Winthrop, The Castle in the Attic, 1985.
• Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales, 1985. Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 was a Welsh poet who wrote exclusively in English
• J. Grimm and W. Grimm, The Water of Life, retold by B. Rogasky, 1986.
• Vivian Vande Velde, A Hidden Magic, 1986. Vivian Vande Velde (born 1951, Rochester New York) is an American Author who writes books primarily aimed at young adults
• Myra Cohn Livingston, compiler, Cat Poems, 1987.
• Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1988. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 – April 21 1910 better known by the Pen name Mark Twain, was an American Humorist, satirist A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 Novel by American Humorist and Writer Mark Twain.
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, adapted by Barbara Cohen, 1988. Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1343 – 25 October 1400? was an English author poet Philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and Diplomat. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in Prose, the rest in verse)
• (With Marcia Brown and others) Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, compiler, Sing a Song of Popcorn, 1988.
• Swan Lake, retold by Margot Fonteyn, 1989.
• Eric Kimmel, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, 1989.
• Margaret Hodges, The Kitchen Knight: A Tale from King Arthur, 1990.
• B. Rogasky, compiler and editor, Winter Poems, 1991.
• Lloyd Alexander, The Fortune-Tellers, 1992. Lloyd Chudley Alexander ( January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007) was a widely-influential American author of more than forty books
• Marion Dane Bauer, Ghost Eye, 1992.
• Eric A. Kimmel, reteller, Iron John, 1994.
• Kimmel, reteller, The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol, 1995.
• Barbara Rogasky, The Golem: A Version, 1996.
• Margaret Hodges, adapter, Comus, 1996.
• Angela Shelf Medearis, Haunts: Five Hair-Raising Tales, 1996.
• Howard Pyle, Bearskin, 1997. Howard Pyle ( March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American Illustrator and writer primarily of books for young audiences
• John Updike, A Child's Calendar, 1999. John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American Novelist, Poet, Short story
• Katrin Tchana, reteller, The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women, 2000.
• Sherry Garland, Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam, 2001.
• Katrin Tchana, Sense Pass King: A Tale from Cameroon, 2002.
• Dean Whitlock, "Sky Carver", 2005
• Contributor of illustrations to textbooks and Cricket magazine.
• Katrin Tchana, Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Goddesses from Around the World, 2006.

Adaptations

• Dragon Stew was adapted as a filmstrip with record, BFA Educational Media, 1975; Tight Times was filmed as a "Reading Rainbow" special, PBS-TV, 1983; Little Red Riding Hood was adapted as a filmstrip with cassette, Listening Library, 1984.

References

• "Trina Schart Hyman. " Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed. , 8 vols. Gale Group, 2002. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Biography of Hyman, with links to bibliography, and interview
• Boston Globe obituary

External links

• guide to the Trina Schart Hyman papers at the University of Oregon
• Child at heart gallery
• Trina Schart Hyman at AuthorWars.com