Jane Dyer

For the South Carolinian politician, see Jane Ballard Dyer.
Jane Dyer
Born March 7, 1949
Nationality American
Known for Illustrating Lucky and Squash
Website www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pages/DyerJane/Jane-Dyer.html

Jane Dyer (born 1949) is an American illustrator of more than fifty books,[1] including Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Cookies series and Jeanne Birdsall's Lucky and Squash.[2] Dyer grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She used to teach, write, and illustrate textbooks before she began illustrating children's books full-time. Most of Dyer's work in children books illustrates family or home scenes.

Works

Reception of works

Dyer has received multiple awards throughout her career, including two Parent's Choice Honor Books for Illustration awards.[3] Dyer has a Tibetan Terrier named Scuppers.[4] In 2015, Dyer spoke at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts and read Lucky and Squash aloud as part of her talk on the art-making process for picture books.[5] In a School Library Journal review of Lucky and Squash, Anne Beier of the Hendrick Hudson Free Library in Montrose, New York praises Dyer's illustrations and states that Dyer's paintings of the titular dogs' faces are priceless, particularly in the scenes where they are looking at each other through the fence and those where they are in their owners' arms.[6] Similarly, a Kirkus Reviews article calls the illustrations in this book charming and writes that they "have all the clever details that are Dyer's signature touch".[7] Connie Fletcher of Booklist suggests that, apart from the "ominous grays and greens" in the illustrations of one scene, the pastel-colored illustrations in the book are evocative of 1940s picture postcards, which she considers "just right for such jolly capers".[8]

References

  1. ↑ Contrada, Fred (August 7, 2012). "Children's Book Illustrator Jane Dyer of Cummington Recuperates from Attack in Home". The Republican. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Lucky and Squash". Publishers Weekly. 259 (11). March 12, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Jane Dyer". R. Michelson Galleries. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lucky and Squash". Jeanne Birdsall. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ McDonald, Michele (February 28, 2015). "Viewfinder: Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Beier, Anne. "Lucky and Squash". School Library Journal. 58 (5). p. 67. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Lucky and Squash". Kirkus Reviews. 80 (7). March 7, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Fletcher, Connie (July 2012). "Lucky and Squash". Booklist. 108 (21). p. 71.
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