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Beth Krommes

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Occupation
  
Illustrator

Books
  
The House in the Night

Education
  
Syracuse University

Period
  
1999–present

Role
  
Illustrator

Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Beth Krommes


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Genre
  
Children's picture books

Awards
  
Caldecott Medal, Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration

Notable awards
  
Caldecott Medal2009

Notable works
  
The House in the Night

Swirl by swirl by joyce sidman illus by beth krommes


Beth Krommes (born 1956) is an American illustrator of children's books. Her work has won several honors, including the 2002 Golden Kite Award and the 2009 Caldecott Medal.

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Biography

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Krommes was born in Pennsylvania in 1956. She attended Syracuse University, where she earned a BFA in painting, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned an MAT in art education. She has been illustrating children's books since 1989. Her illustrations for The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish won her the 2001 Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration. In 2009, she won the Caldecott Medal for her work on The House in the Night. She is married and has two daughters.

Books illustrated

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  • Grandmother Winter, written by Phyllis Root (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999)
  • The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, Jacqueline Briggs Martin (HM, 2001)
  • The Sun in Me: Poems About the Planet (Cambridge: Barefoot Books, 2003), anthology, ed. Judith Nicholls, 40 pp., OCLC 51724851
  • The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies and Other Secret Beings, Lise Lunge-Larsen (HM, 2004), 72 pp.
  • Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Joyce Sidman (HM, 2006)
  • The House in the Night, Susan Marie Swanson (HM, 2008)
  • Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Joyce Sidman (HM, 2011)
  • Blue on Blue, Dianne White (Beach Lane Books) – forthcoming September 2014, LCCN 2012-14239

    • Beth Krommes Danforth Art Exhibitions Beth Krommes

    References

    Beth Krommes Wikipedia
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