| Holly Meade | |
| Birth Date: | 14 September 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education: | Rhode Island School of Design (AB) |
| Children: | 2 |
Holly Meade (b. Winchester, Massachusetts, September 14, 1956 - d. June 28, 2013) was an American artist best known for her woodblock prints and for her illustrations for children's picture books.[1] [2]
Meade's illustrations for (1996, Orchard Books,) by Minfong Ho won a 1997 Caldecott Honor for illustration.[3]
John Willy and Freddy McGee (Marshall Cavendish, 1998,) which Meade both wrote and illustrated, was an honoree for the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Creative Writing.[1]
Meade was the daughter of Russell and Joanne Meade of Winchester, Massachusetts. She earned her A.B. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978.[1] She lived in Sedgwick, Maine and had two children, Jenny and Noah Smick.[1] [4] [5]
Meade worked in "drawing, collage, printmaking, basket making, and fabric design."[1] In 1992, she illustrated her first of many children's picture books, an endeavor that she called "the other focus of my work life".[1] She began to work in woodblock printing in 2002, following a workshop with printmaker Hester Stinnett at the Haystack Mountain School.[1] [6] Some of her prints are in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art.[6]
Woodblock prints illustrate some of her later picture books, including David Elliott’s series that includes On the Farm (Candlewick, 2008), In the Wild (2010) and In the Sea (2012).[1]
She used torn paper to illustrate the 1997 book Cocoa Ice, which was given a Lupine Award by the Maine Library Association. Meade describe the challenge of illustrating the parallel story with, "pictures where a tropical place and warm palette must go hand in hand with a bare landscape and cool palette."[7]
Her book John Willy and Freddy McGee was a 1999 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book.[8]
The follow is a selection of some of the works Meade published.[9]
2001 A Place to Sleep
2001 The Rabbit's Bride by the Brother's Grimm
2003 John Willy and Freddy McGee
2005 Inside, Inside, Inside
1996 Hush!: A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho
1997 Cocoa Ice by Diana Appelbaum
2004 Blue Bowl Down by C. M. Millen
2004 Peek!: A Thai Hide-and-Seek by Minfong Ho
2005 Hop! by Phyllis Root
2005 Quack! by Phyllis Root
2005 Rata-Pata-Scata-Fata: A Caribbean Story by Phillis Gershator
2007 Sky Sweeper by Phillis Gershator
2007 Virginnie's Hat by Dori Chacaonas
2008 On the Farm by David Elliott