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Wendell Minor

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born

Aurora, Illinois, The United States

website

http://www.minorart.com/

genre

Arts & Photography

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Wendell Minor was born and raised in the town of Aurora, Illinois. Drawing and painting have always been an integral part of his life, and after completing his studies at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, Wendell began creating original designs for book publishers in New York City. His children's books have consistently exhibited his love for the land and environment.

Illustrating books for naturalist authors Jean Craighead George and Diane Siebert, among others, he approaches his art by researching and experiencing each environment he illustrates. His travels have taken him from the tropical Everglades of Florida to Barrow, Alaska in the Arctic Circle, from the Midwest to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest, and thro...more Wendell Minor was born and raised in the town of Aurora, Illinois. Drawing and painting have always been an integral part of his life, and after completing his studies at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, Wendell began creating original designs for book publishers in New York City. His children's books have consistently exhibited his love for the land and environment.

Illustrating books for naturalist authors Jean Craighead George and Diane Siebert, among others, he approaches his art by researching and experiencing each environment he illustrates. His travels have taken him from the tropical Everglades of Florida to Barrow, Alaska in the Arctic Circle, from the Midwest to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest, and throughout the United States. In addition to picture books, Minor has created cover art and interior illustrations for novels for young people, including Jean Craighead George's Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack, and redesigned the cover for the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Newbery award-winning Julie of the Wolves. He has also authored several of his own books.

His books have consistently been named on the annual lists for Notable Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies, Outstanding Science Trade Books, and IRA Teachers' Choices. His books have also received the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio and Parents' Choice Awards and been featured on PBS's "The Reading Rainbow."

Wendell has had numerous solo exhibitions, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Illinois State Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art, Mattatuck Museum (of Connecticut), the Mazza Museum at Findlay University, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Museum of American Illustration, NASA, Arizona Historical Society, U.S. Coast Guard and the Library of Congress.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, he serves on the Advisory Council for the Connecticut Center for the Book, and is a member of The Children's Book Council (CBC), a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books.

Wendell and his wife and business partner, Florence, live and work in Connecticut with their cats, Sofie and Cindercat.(less)

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Books by Wendell Minor

Average rating: 3.75 · 7,149 ratings · 667 reviews · 79 distinct works

	If You Were a Penguin by Wendell Minor, Florence Minor 3.65 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	My Farm Friends 3.65 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pumpkin Heads 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Yankee Doodle America: The Spririt of 1776 from A to Z 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Wendell Minor: Twenty-Five Years Of Book Cover Art by Wendell Minor, Ruth Greenstein, Florence Friedmann Minor (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Wendell Minor: Art For The Written Word: Twenty Five Years Of Book Cover Art by Wendell Minor, Florence Friedmann Minor 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	America the Beautiful 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Yankee Doodle America 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Tetes de Citrouille 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: