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Connie McLennan
CAREER:
Freelance illustrator for advertising, editorial and institutional and publishing clients since 1982. Specialties include animals, nature, maps, landscapes and food. Multiple styles in traditional media (watercolor, oil and acryic) range from realism and stylized realism to painterly, decorative or whimsical.
Children's publishing clients include Harcourt School Publishers; Highlights for Children; Holt, Reinhart & Winston; NorthWord Books for Children; Pelican Publishing; Scholastic; Scott Foresman Publishing; Shen's Books; Sylvan Dell Publishing; and Weekly Reader.
Books Illustrated:
"Domitila, A Cinderella Tale in the Mexican Tradition," 2000, Shen's Books
"The Wishing Tree", 2005, Shen's Books
"Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean," 2005, Sylvan Dell Publishing
"Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud," 2006 Sylvan Dell Publishing
"The Rainforest Grew All Around," 2007, Sylvan Dell Publishing
"River Beds,Sleeping in the World's Rivers," August 2008, Sylvan Dell Publishing
"The Scottish Alphabet," Fall, 2008, Pelican Publishing
"Whose Nest is This?" Coming in 2009, NorthWord Books for Children
EDUCATION:
Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA, Illustration major; California State University, Sacramento, BA in Journalism; University of the Pacific, undergraduate.
PERSONAL:
I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Sacramento, California with my husband, one teenage son, two birds and one big black cat.
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