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Wendell Minor

Wendell Minor
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Wendell Minor

Wendell Minor is the award-winning illustrator of dozens of picture books, including his own Yankee Doodle America, Robert Burleigh's Into the Woods, and Reaching for the Moon, written by Buzz Aldrin. Mr. Minor's work can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and the Library of Congress. He lives with his wife, Florence, in Washington, Connecticut. Visit Wendell Minor at www.minorart.com.

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The Red Badge of Courage will be released on February 21, 2012 in eBook
Feb 21, 2012
The Red Badge of Courage is now available in eBook
Feb 21, 2012
Into the Woods is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 20, 2011
Into the Woods will be released on December 20, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Dec 20, 2011
The Magical Christmas Horse will be released on October 25, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 25, 2011
The Magical Christmas Horse is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 25, 2011
News:
Into the Woods has won an award
Oct 09, 2011
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Wendell Minor appearances
Oct 04, 2011
Graphic Excerpt:
The Magical Christmas Horse
Sep 29, 2011
News:
Night Flight has won an award
Jul 15, 2011
Graphic Excerpt:
The Magical Christmas Horse
Jun 24, 2011
Night Flight will be released on February 22, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 22, 2011
Night Flight is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 22, 2011
Ghost Ship will be released on November 23, 2010 in eBook
Nov 23, 2010

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School Library Journal, May 6, 2012
...Egielski, Daniel Glucksman, Julia Gran, Ying-Hwa Hu, Genevieve LeRoy-Walton, Betsy Lewin, Anna Louizos, Victor Mays, Emily Arnold McCully, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jon J Muth, Sean Qualls, Peter H. Reynolds, Marc Simont, Javaka Steptoe, Melissa Sweet,...
New Haven Register, April 18, 2012
...discussions at the Whitney Humanities Center:Creating Childrens Picture Books, with authors and illustrators Deborah Freedman, Victoria Kann, Wendell Minor, Nancy Tafuri and Michael Sampson.Using Childrens Picture Books, with Joshua Berrios of the...
ALA, March 13, 2012
...by Isabelle Arsenault. Groundwood Books. "Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic." By Robert Burleigh. Illustrated by Wendell Minor. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. "No Ordinary Day." By Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books. "Nursery...
School Library Journal, March 8, 2012
...Book Press. Tr $17.95. ISBN 978-0-89239-235-3. BURLEIGH, Robert. Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic. illus. by Wendell Minor. S & S/Paula Wiseman Bks. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-1-4169-6733-0. DEEDY, Carmen Agra & Randall Wright. The Cheshire...
DL-Online, January 7, 2012
...and incident this is nonfiction with edge and action, a you-are-there experience made more dramatic and real by Wendell Minor’s vivid paintings. “Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It,” by Susan Wels. “Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It” is the first...
Zimbio, January 7, 2012
...grief and the space-time continuum are nothing less than life-changing. (20100301) If You Were a Penguin ( Hardcover ) By Wendell Minor Buy new : $12.23 43 used and new from $7.99... Family Practice Examination & Board Review, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill...
TheDay.com, December 17, 2011
..." and "The Elves and the Shoemaker." "The Magical Christmas Horse" by Mary Higgins Clark, illustrated by Wendell Minor, Simon & Schuster, 2011, 36 pages, $17.99 hardcover. Eight-year-old Johnny lives with his family in Arizona. One Christmas, when Johnny...
Ledyard Patch, February 3, 2012
...of this winter's   “One Book Every Young Child” selection, If You Were a Penguin by Florence and Wendell Minor. There are crafts and snacks all day, check the library website for more details. 4. Sign up for softball tomorrow! Girls in...
Mad Woman in the Forest, September 18, 2011
...featuring over 70 pieces by leading artists in the children’s book industry, including Peter Brown, Susan Jeffers, Wendell Minor, Adam Rex and Paul O. Zelinsky. The eBay auction will culminate during Banned Books Week (Sept. 24-Oct. 1), the only...
Boston 1775, June 30, 2011
...Henry Knox: Bookseller, Soldier, Patriot , by Anita Silvey and Wendell Minor, is a picture-book biography published last year. The back cover shows Henry Knox as he might have looked at age nine, starting his apprenticeship as a bookbinder. In that...
ALSC Blog, June 12, 2011
...Patient. Illus. by Sylvia Long. Chronicle Books Burleigh, Robert. Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic. Illus. by Wendell Minor Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Drummond, Allan. Energy Island . Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jenkins,...