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Lauren Stringer

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 28 1957
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LAUREN STRINGER is an artist, author, and theatrical designer living in Minneapolis, MN. She received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz and continued her art education with the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program in NYC. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in museums and galleries across the country. In 1991 she received the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for sculpture. In 1994, Stringer’s first picture book, Mud, written by Mary Lyn Ray, won a Minnesota Book Award, IRA Children’s Choice Award, and Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year Award. Since Mud, she has continued illustrating many award-winning picture books, including Scarecrow and Snow, both written by Cynthia Rylant, Fold Me A Poem, written by Kristine O’Connell George, Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story, written by Lisa Westberg Peters, and Tell Me About Your Day Today, written by Mem Fox. She wrote and illustrated Winter is the Warmest Season, a Booklist Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her story When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky won the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for writing in Children’s Literature in 2012 and was published in spring 2013 to many starred reviews. Deer Dancer, written by Mary Lyn Ray, will be published spring 2014. When not writing and illustrating picture books, Stringer is the scriptwriter and set designer for Circus Juventas, America’s largest youth circus school as well as a visiting author/artist in the schools.

Lauren Stringer

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 28 1957
Website
Go to Website
Twitter
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LAUREN STRINGER is an artist, author, and theatrical designer living in Minneapolis, MN. She received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz and continued her art education with the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program in NYC. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in museums and galleries across the country. In 1991 she received the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for sculpture. In 1994, Stringer’s first picture book, Mud, written by Mary Lyn Ray, won a Minnesota Book Award, IRA Children’s Choice Award, and Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year Award. Since Mud, she has continued illustrating many award-winning picture books, including Scarecrow and Snow, both written by Cynthia Rylant, Fold Me A Poem, written by Kristine O’Connell George, Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story, written by Lisa Westberg Peters, and Tell Me About Your Day Today, written by Mem Fox. She wrote and illustrated Winter is the Warmest Season, a Booklist Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her story When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky won the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for writing in Children’s Literature in 2012 and was published in spring 2013 to many starred reviews. Deer Dancer, written by Mary Lyn Ray, will be published spring 2014. When not writing and illustrating picture books, Stringer is the scriptwriter and set designer for Circus Juventas, America’s largest youth circus school as well as a visiting author/artist in the schools.

Books from Lauren Stringer

Yellow Time

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Winter Is the Warmest Season

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Tell Me About Your Day Today

3.7/5 ( ratings)

When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky: Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fold Me a Poem

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Princess and Her Panther

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Dark Was Done

4/5 ( ratings)

Deer Dancer

4/5 ( ratings)

Mud

4/5 ( ratings)

Snow

4/5 ( ratings)

Red Rubber Boot Day

4/5 ( ratings)

Scarecrow

4/5 ( ratings)

Come Home Before Dark: Selected Works From the COMPAS Writers & Artists in the Schools Program

4/5 ( ratings)

Looking for Smile

4/5 ( ratings)
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