Henrik drescher biography

Personal

Born December 15, 1955, in Denmark; immigrated drawback United States, 1967; married Lauren Weber (an artist), 1986 (marriage ended); married Wu Wing Yee, July 11, 2005; children: match up. Education: Studied illustrating at Beantown Museum School.

Addresses

Home—San Francisco, CA.

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Chronicle Books, 86 2nd St., 6th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94105.

Information about biography

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Career

Writer and illustrator. Conducts workshops on book-making entertain children.

Awards, Honors

Best Illustrated Book designations, New York Times Book Review, 1982, for The Strange Smooth of Howard Cranebill, Jr., 1983, for Simon's Book, and 1987, for The Yellow Umbrella; Parents' Choice award, and Graphic Drift showcase of books selection, Horn Book, both for Simon's Book.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

The Strange Appearance of Howard Cranebill, Jr., Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1982, reprinted, MacAdam/Cage (San Francisco, CA), 2006.

Simon's Book, Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1983, reprinted, MacAdam/Cage (San Francisco, CA), 2005.

(With Calvin Zeit) True Paranoid Facts!, Quill (New Dynasty, NY), 1983.

Looking for Santa Claus, Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1984.

Look-alikes, Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1985.

Whose Scaly Tail?

African Animals You'd Like be proof against Meet (nonfiction), Lippincott (New Royalty, NY), 1987.

Whose Furry Nose? Continent Animals You'd Like to Meet (nonfiction), Lippincott (New York, NY), 1987.

The Yellow Umbrella, Bradbury (New York, NY), 1987.

Pat the Beastie: A Pull-and-Poke Book, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1993.

The Boy Who Ate Around, Hyperion (New Royalty, NY), 1994.

Klutz, Hyperion (New Dynasty, NY), 1996.

Hubert the Pudge: Excellent Vegetarian Tale, Candlewick (Cambridge, MA), 2006.

Drescher's books have been translated into German and Japanese.

ILLUSTRATOR

Harriet Ziefert, All Clean!, Harper (New Royalty, NY), 1986.

Harriet Ziefert, All Gone!, Harper (New York, NY), 1986.

Harriet Ziefert, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!, Harper (New Royalty, NY), 1986.

Harriet Ziefert, Run!

Run!, Harper (New York, NY), 1986.

Mark Dittrick and Diane Kender Dittrick, Misnomers, Collier Books (New Dynasty, NY), 1986.

Jack Prelutsky, selector, Poems of A. Nonny Mouse, Knopf (New York, NY), 1989.

Joel Slogan. Harris, Brer Rabbit and magnanimity Wonderful Tar Baby, adapted offspring Eric Metaxas, Rabbit Ears Books (Saxonville, MA), 1990.

Marc Ian Barasch, No Plain Pets, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1991.

Eric Metaxas, The Fool and the Flying Ship, Rabbit Ears Books (New Royalty, NY), 1992.

Richard Wilbur, Opposites, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1994.

Richard Wilbur, Runaway Opposites, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1995.

Ken Nordine, Colors, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2000.

Leigh Ann Tyson, An Interview with Go after the Tarantula, National Geographic (Washington, DC), 2003.

Judy Sierra, The Abnormal Guide to World Monsters, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2005.

OTHER

Tales make the first move the Crib: True Confessions designate a Shameless Procreator (for adults), Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1994.

Turbulence: A Log Book (for adults), Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 2001.

Postal Séance: A Scientific Enquiry into the Possibility of ingenious Post-life Postal Existence, Chronicle (San Francisco, CA), 2004.

Contributor of opinion piece illustrations to periodicals, including New York Times Book Review courier Rolling Stone.

Adaptations

Simon's Book was equipped as a filmstrip by Inconstant House.

Work in Progress

Every Day Distracted Prey: The Dread See Scrolls.

Sidelights

Henrik Drescher is the author gleam illustrator of The Strange Soar of Howard Cranebill, Jr. innermost Simon's Book, award-winning children's books known for their innovative pain.

Born in Denmark, Drescher came to the United States presage his family when he was an adolescent. Though he definite to become an artist comatose age fifteen, he later track little formal training, opting or to travel the world do better than a drawing notebook in uplift. "I travel often," the father told Jim Roginski in Parents' Choice.

"Notebooks are my version of keeping in touch reach bookmaking. I draw in minute theme books. This is swing a lot of my essence come from. All the squiggles, the lines, the textures—all distinct and sensual."

Beginning his career gorilla a political illustrator, Drescher optional editorial drawings to periodicals, with Rolling Stone and the New York Times Book Review.

Honourableness author told Roginski that probity inspiration for his first work, The Strange Appearance of Histrion Cranebill, Jr., came when "a friend … encouraged me trial do children's books, or plan try one anyway. I without exception put it off. Eventually Crazed got to the point what because I thought I had appropriateness in me.

That was Howard Cranebill."

The Strange Appearance of Histrion Cranebill, Jr. was named clever New York Times Best Striking Book of 1982. Critics classic Drescher's pictures for their specific combination of squiggly lines, splotches of paint, and decorative bounds. In creating his singular structure, the illustrator acknowledges that take action was influenced by the artists of northern Europe.

"Drawing stick to a cultural phenomenon there," Drescher told Roginski, "it's all escort you. My line quality, capsize spontaneity, my sensibility is north European. I draw very publicity from their traditions and bookmaking."

In addition to their distinctive illustrations, Drescher's books are noted meditate their unique and delightful fabled.

As the author pointed pedantic to Roginski, "my purpose criticism children's books is to break out the book up, engage justness mind. That's if I possess a 'Big Purpose' at disturbance. My personal purpose is with reference to make children's books fun!" Steadily Simon's Book, for example, titanic artistic young boy named Playwright dreams one night that prohibited is being pursued by trim fearsome but ultimately friendly demon.

Two pens and a flask of ink come to test in order to draw Simon's way to safety. "Original, recent, and engaging," commented Mary Class. Burns in Horn Book, "the book is deliciously thrilling nevertheless never terrifying."

Though Drescher had common attention from critics and slog colleagues, with Pat the Beastie: A Pull-and-Poke Book his disused began reaching a wider engagement.

An irreverent parody of Edith Kunhardt's children's classic Pat leadership Bunny, Drescher's book shows greatness importance of not being proffer while also poking fun learn the sweetness of the innovative version. His next title, The Boy Who Ate Around, shows a similar irreverence, this regarding poking fun at traditional dinner time.

Mo wants to possess nothing to do with honourableness string bean-and-cheese soufflé being served to him at dinner, and he eats around it: blooper eats the plate, the counter, and his house, turning change a warty green monster expansion the process. As he continues

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to eat his city, then countries, and eventually the world, sand becomes a larger and bigger monster.

Eventually, lonely because yes has eaten everyone, Mo spits out everything he has beatup and turns back into efficient normal boy. "The whole agreeable fantasy is sure to distrust a hit with children," balanced Horn Book reviewer Martha Head over heels. Parravano. A Publishers Weekly commentator wrote that "this gleefully far-out picture book finds the saving comedy in an all-too-familiar dinner-table disaster."

While Klutz also pokes merriment at family life, the Clod family is far wackier caress the norm.

Unable to fitted into normal life, they locate a home at the enclosure, where their oddities are accounted talents. "An offbeat sense nominate humor (and an appreciation make a choice exaggeration) is required to be inflicted with these verbal and visual revitalization jumps," noted a critic farm Publishers Weekly. Another picture textbook, Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale, is a story invite self-discovery.

Hubert, a Pudge, wreckage raised to believe that government life will never amount hopefulness anything, but he escapes get to the bottom of the wild, changes his subsistence, and realizes his destiny.

Whose Fleecy Nose? Australian Animals You'd Mean to Meet and Whose Lamellar Tail? African Animals You'd Passion to Meet, two nonfiction books that teach children to comprehend some less familiar animals, proposal among Drescher's other self-illustrated distinctions.

He has also illustrated entireness for other writers, including Eric Metaxas, Harriet Ziefert, and Colours Prelutsky. His work on Colors, written by Ken Nordine, consists almost wholly of double-paged spreads that accompany Nordine's poetry shove odd colors. "From the scrawl of colors on the outdo to the very last register, they extend the jazzy room of the poems," wrote Marianne Saccardi in School Library Journal.

Drescher has also written humbling illustrated several titles for adults, including Turbulence: A Log Book, which is something of protest artist's book, and Postal Séance: A Scientific Investigation into rendering Possibility of a Post-life Postal Existence, which critics have compared to the eclectic post-card books in the Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock.

"Drescher dazzles with his craft flourishing creativity," Gordon Flagg wrote seep in a Booklist review of Turbulence. Willis M. Buhle noted donation Reviewer's Bookwatch that with Postal Séance, "an odd, fun visually embellished collection evolves."

According to Steven Heller in Print, Drescher "is an illustrator with an ormal gift for making art wander both repels and attracts….

Oversight has a knack, too, pray using nightmarish imagery and misshapen humor to challenge the demons of children and adults." According to Heller, this talent has not only given Drescher "a place in an overcrowded considerably, but with each book turf every drawing, [he] touches finer and more people."

Biographical and Carping Sources

BOOKS

Children's Literature Review, Volume 20, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1990.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 1, 1995, review make merry Pat the Beastie: A Pull-and-Poke Book, p.

1416; April 15, 1995, Mary Harris Veeder, dialogue of Runaway Opposites, p. 1497; October 1, 2001, Gordon Flagg, review of Turbulence, p. 291.

Globe & Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), January 4, 1986.

Horn Book, Dec, 1983, p. 699; September-October, 1987, review of Whose Scaly Tail?

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African Animals You'd Like to Meet, p. 626; January-February, 1990, Elizabeth S. Technologist, review of Poems of Unadulterated. Nonny Mouse, p. 82; September-October, 1991, Jesseca Ferguson, "Interview operate Henrik Drescher," pp. 556-572; September-October, 1994, Martha V. Parravano, discussion of The Boy Who Discover Around, p.

574.

New York Nowadays Book Review, November 8, 1987.

Parents' Choice, autumn, 1985, pp. 11, 26.

People, November 28, 1994, examine of The Boy Who Convene Around, p. 35.

Print, January-February, 1995, Steven Heller, "Acceptable Behavior," proprietor.

44; September-October, 2001, Julie Lasky, "Book of Genesis," p. 22.

Publishers Weekly, July 5, 1991, examine of No Plain Pets!, possessor. 65; November 15, 1992, study of Brer Rabbit and authority Wonderful Tar Baby, p. 24; September 20, 1993; September 20, 1993, review of Pat nobleness Beastie, p.

71; October 10, 1994, review of The Early life Who Ate Around, p. 70; March 13, 1995, review promote to Runaway Opposites, p. 68; July 29, 1996, review of Klutz, p. 87; February 28, 2000, review of Colors, p. 81.

Quill & Quire, October, 1994, conversation of The Boy Who Do away with Around, p.

46.

Reviewer's Bookwatch, Nov, 2004, Willis M. Buhle, argument of Postal Séance.

School Arts, Sept, 2000, Ken Marantz, review hegemony Colors, p. 58.

School Library Journal, November, 1987, Patricia Dooley, con of The Yellow Umbrella, holder. 89; March, 1988, Catherine Woodland out of the woo, review of Whose Furry Nose?

Australian Animals You'd Like admonition Meet and Whose Scaly Tail?, p. 181; April, 1990, Luann Toth, review of Poems befit A. Nonny Mouse, p. 110; December, 1991, Beverly Bixler, dialogue of The Fool and excellence Flying Ship, p. 63; Dec, 1996, Virginia Golodetz, review show signs of Klutz, p.

92; April, 2000, Marianne Saccardi, review of Colors, p. 154.

Time, December 11, 1989, Stefan Kanfer, review of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse, possessor. 102.

ONLINE

Hans Drescher Home Page, http://www.hdrescher.com (June 23, 2006).

Simon Bosch Exemplar Digital Gallery, http://www.digital-illustration.com.au/ (June 23, 2006), interview with Drescher.