| 词条 | Pat Cummings (illustrator) |
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| name = Pat Cummings | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1950|11|9}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States | death_date = | movement = | awards = NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Coretta Scott King Award, Horn Book-Boston Globe Award | website = | field = Children's books illustrator | training = Pratt Institute }} Patricia Marie "Pat" Cummings (born November 9, 1950 in Chicago) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Early lifeHer father was in the Army, and her family lived in different locations from Europe to Asia when she was growing up. She remembered "My brother and sisters and I were always the 'new kids', but I found that art helped me to get to know my classmates."[1] Growing up, her parents would read them stories about fairytales, which fueled her imagination as she explored castles on the Rhine River and villages on Okinawa.[1] She attended Pratt Institute in New York City.[2] After graduation Ms. Cummings initially freelanced for editorial and advertising clients. before focusing exclusively on children's books. CareerCummings is the creator of over 30 books for children, including titles that have won the Horn Book-Boston Globe Award and the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. She won the Coretta Scott King Award in 1983 for the illustrations in My Mama Needs Me written by Mildred Pitts Walter and was a finalist for Just Us Women written by Jeannette Caines, and C.L.O.U.D.S., which she wrote and illustrated.[2] As one of the illustrators for Our Children Can Soar (Bloomsbury, 2009) she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Children. She worked as a producer and writer for Gullah Gullah Island, a Nickelodeon children's show and cohosted Cover to Cover, a cable TV talk show about children's books and the people who create them. Pat serves as National Secretary of The Authors Guild and sits on the Boards of The Authors Guild Foundation, The Authors League Fund, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She is also a member of The Writer's Guild and teaches children's book illustration at Pratt and Parsons, the New School for Design. Pat's goal is to prepare students for a career in children's books. Her well-published former students include Julian Hector, Hiroe Nakata and David Ezra Stein, recipient of the 2011 Caldecott Honor Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband. Cummings' WorksWritten and Illustrated
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References1. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://patcummings.com/menu.html|title=Pat Cummings|website=patcummings.com|access-date=2017-03-18}} 2. ^1 {{Cite book|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature|last=Duthie|first=Peggy Lin|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780195307429|location=|pages=|chapter=Cummings, Pat}} External links
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