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illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - If I had a Chicken-Little african boy holds a chicken
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - The Tale of Desperaux-© 2006 Classroomcompletepress.com
Desperaux, a mouse hold a needle with a bright red 
thread - another in the series of 50 book covers for the 
literature study programs.
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - In the Rain-A little boy splashes through the puddles in his garden, he is wearing frog boots and a yellow slicker. He is carrying a pail with a frog in it. Lots of plants in the background.

From my book In The Garden to be released by Applesauce press in 2008/09.
© 2008 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - It is cold in my Snow cave-A little boy, inside a little cnow cave he has dug out for my upcoming picture book In The Snow, published by Cider Mill Press in 2009.
©2008 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Lookoing out the window-A little boy looking wistfully out the window at the freshly fallen snow in his undies/pull-ups and a touque.

For my upcoming book 'In the Snow' to be released by Applesauce Press in 2009
©2008 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - I eat Tiny Tomatoes-A little boy in a yellow hat eats mini tomatoes from his garden as seeds squirt all over his blue overalls.

From My upcoming book ' In The Garden' to be released by Applesauce Press in 2008/09
© 2008 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Nice Girls-a group of girls bullying another girl in the 
schoolyard
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - The letter O-An ornery owl opens a can of okra
inside an open mouthed orca
as an ostrich rides on top
reading an open book
as all three
float obliviously
out to the open ocean.
© 2007 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - The Blub Blub Blues Band-Three blub blub blues musicians blub it up on the lake bed. Illustration for Illustration Friday topic 'the blues'
© 2007 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Henry HATED the bath even more than....-Henry hates having a bath, he imagining all the things he hates... the dentist, cabbage, cough syrup.

© 2008 Neil Griffiths/Red Robin Books
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Before the Bath-Henry is ticked off about having to have a bath. He is in his bedroom, slowly getting ready. Very slowly.

© May 2008 Red Robin Books

lamp, boy, kid, underwear, bathrobe, bedroom, bed, toys, stripes, angry, mad, pout, pouting
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - In the Sun-A little boy checking his zucchini plants out in the garden while the sun shines. He is wearing overalls, frog boots and a big yellow hat. 

Illustration from my upcoming book 'In The Garden' to be released by Applesauce Press in 2008/09/
© 2008 Peggy Collins
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Tallulah's Atishoo-Tallulah the Hippo sits in a cool pool of mud in the sun.
© 2007 Red Robin Books
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Going Fishing-A young girl and her grandmother bid the grandfather 
farewell as they make thier way down to the stream to 
go fishing.
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Bud Not Buddy-Buddy gets dropped off outside of Grande Rapids 
Michegan, to look for his dad. In his hands he holds the 
flyer advetising his dad's band.
© 2006 Classroomcompletepress.com
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Ben and the Bear-Ben, coming down the mountain with a giant pot runs 
into a bear.. what will he do?
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - The end of the Dinosaurs-Three cockroaches discuss the demise of the dinosaurs. 
© 2007 Scholastic
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Stone Soup-© 2006 Classroomcompletepress.com
I was very excited to get to do my own version 
of the cover for the story Stone Soup... 3 
soldiers and one woman giving them an onion 
fo their crafty stone soup.
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Where the Wild Things Are-© 2006 classroomcompletepress.com
OK, this one was HARD. How do you make an 
illustration of a book you read ten times a day to your 
child and make it recognizeable, yet different enough? 
Not to mention how much I love Maurice Sendak.
This is another cover for a literature study for the book 
Where the Wild Things Are.
illustrator - portfolio - COLLINS, PEGGY - Ramona Quimby Age 8-© 2006 classroomcompletepress.com
Again, I LOVED the ramona books when I was growing 
up, so when I saw this book on the list of the 50+ 
covers I was contracted to do - I was very excited.
This is for a literature study on the book Ramona 
Quimby - Age 8.
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PEGGY COLLINS
Since 2004, Peggy Has been illustrating books for children. She has six titles with Scholastic, three with Red Robin Books UK, and has, most recently, signed on with Cider Mill Press for a series of picture books she has written - the first two are due out in hardback next year.

Peggy's titles:
The Trouble With Geese - Scholastic 2005
Sammy - Scholastic 2005
Always Room for One More - Rubicon Educational Publishing
Quiet Tessa Mouse - Scholastic 2006
Going Fishing - Scholastic 2006
The End of the Dinosaurs - Scholastic 2006
Tallulah's Atishoo - Red Robin Books 2007
The PErils of the Peanut Butter Kid - YVO DESIGN 2007
A Dusty Life - Scholastic 2007
Yoon's Smart Readers - EECI 2007 (available in Korea only)
There's a Spider in the Bath - Red Robin Books Coming in 2008!
Shaun the Shy Shark - Red Robin Books Coming in 2008!
The Big List - Pearson US - Coming in 2008!
In the Garden - Cider Mill Press/Applesauce Press - Coming in 2009!
In the Snow - Cider Mill Press/Applesauce Press - Coming in 2009!

She has also done a wide variety of covers, spots and editorials for children's magazines, workplace magazines, educational workbooks, and parenting magazines.

She enjoys working with humour, energy, colour and great stories. She work on clayboard, illustration board and watercolour paper using, gouache, pastel, ink, crayon - whatever works for the story.

She is easy to work with, as evidenced by the clients who keep coming back for more. She is punctual and efficient and has been told she is the 'easiest illustrator I have ever worked with' by more than one art director.

Peggy is a member of PBAA, SCBWI and CANSCAIP.

RECENT CLIENTS
Bill Smith Studio/Pearson
Cider Mill Press
Treehouse Press
EECI
Red Robin Books UK
Scholastic UK
Scholastic Ltd.
Classroom Complete Press
Nelvana
Mothering Magazine
Daughters Magazine
Rubicon Publishing
New Moon Publishing

AWARDS
Applied Arts - Corporate Direct Mail
Anvil Award - Best Illustration in Advertising or Design

Contact info
Website: http://www.peggysillustration.com
E-mail: peggycollins@mac.com
Telephone: 613 388 1103
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