Nationality American Role Author | Name Wallace Tripp | |
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Occupation Illustrator, writer, anthologist Notable awards Boston Globe–Horn Book Award1977 Books A great big ugly man came up, Marguerite - go wash your feet, Rose's Are Red - Violet's Ar, Wallace Tripp's Wurst sell, My Uncle Podger | ||
Wallace tripp
Wallace Whitney Tripp (born June 26, 1940) is an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He is known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor. He is one of several illustrators of the Amelia Bedelia series of children's stories. He has illustrated over 40 books, including Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet (1985), Wallace Tripp's Wurst Seller (1981), Casey at the Bat (1978) and A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me (1973). Tripp has also drawn many greeting cards for the Pawprints line, now available in limited quantities from Recycled Paper Greetings in Chicago.
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- Wallace tripp
- 1974 Wallace Tripp Pawprint Card with Rabbit dressed as Tigger
- Biography
- Awards
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1974 Wallace Tripp Pawprint Card with Rabbit dressed as Tigger
Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Tripp grew up in rural New Hampshire and New York City. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) where he studied graphic arts. He received a bachelor's degree in education from Keene State College and studied English at the University of New Hampshire. He then taught English for three years until choosing to devote himself full-time to illustration.
For a time, Tripp's ex-wife Marcy ran a publishing house, Sparhawk Books, that published two of his books, Wallace Tripp's Wurst Seller and an illustrated edition of Hilair Belloc's The Bad Child's Book of Beasts. During the 1980s, Tripp worked on an animation project with Richard Purdom's British studio. Throughout his career he created many greeting cards for Pawprints, a family-owned business, whose publisher was then wife, Marcy Tripp. A lover of classical music and a pilot, Tripp frequently included airplanes and musical references in his illustrations. For many years, he built and flew radio-controlled model planes. He now lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Wallace Tripp has three children, two sons and a daughter. He has been retired for over 20 years due to Parkinson's disease.
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