Jackie Urbanovic is an American New York Times best-selling ^[1] author and illustrator. The majority of her work consists of children's picture books, including her self-authored Max the Duck series. ^[2] She regularly speaks at libraries and at other educational events for children. She is a member of the Children's Book Guild. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work. ^[3]

Career

Urbanovic received a BFA from the Maryland Institute of Art. ^[4] Her career started in graphic design and illustration, but realized she would prefer to illustrate children's literature. She studied writing under the mentorship of author Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to " Highlights" magazine, received her first trade illustration job on Spaghetti Eddie. ^[5] Before she started her children's literature career, she contributed to several anthologies and comics series regarding LGBT themes and issues in the 1980s and 1990s. ^[6] She is also credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the Molesworth Institute, ^[7] a source of library humor and information.

Bibliography

Books

Source: ^[8]

Self-authored and illustrated

• Do Your Ears Hang Low? (Sing and Read Storybook). Scholastic, 2005. ISBN  978-0439733533
• Duck at the Door. HarperCollins, 2007. ISBN  978-0061214400
• Duck Soup. HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN  978-0061214417
• Duck and Cover. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN  978-0061214448
• Sitting Duck. HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN  978-0061765834
• Ducks in a Row. HarperCollins, 2011. ISBN  978-0061864377
• Happy Go Ducky. HarperCollins, 2012. ISBN  978-0061864391
• Prince of a Frog. Orchard Books, 2015. ISBN  9780545636520
• Splatypus. Two Lions, 2017. ISBN  978-1503939202

Illustrated

• Do the Hokey Pokey. Cricket Books, 2001. ISBN  978-0812626995
• Horace the Horrible. Marshall Cavendish Corp, 2003. ISBN  978-0761451099
• The Ten Best Things About My Dad. Cartwheel, 2004. ISBN  978-0439577694
• Bully Blockers Club. Albert Whitman & Company, 2004. ISBN  978-0807509197
• Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip. Albert Whitman & Company, 2005. ISBN  978-0807530238
• Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal. Magination Press, 2005. ISBN  9781591472407
• Glamsters. Hyperion Book CH, 2008. ISBN  1423111486
• Spaghetti Eddie. Boyds Mills Press, 2009. ISBN  978-1590787786
• No Sleep for the Sheep! HMH Books for Young Readers, 2011. ISBN  978-0152049690
• If You're Hoppy. Greenwillow Books, 2011. ISBN  978-0061566349
• I've Lost My Hippopotamus. Greenwillow Books, 2012. ISBN  978-0062014573
• King of the Zoo. Orchard Books, 2013. ISBN  978-0545461825
• I Want Your Smile, Crocodile. Zonderkidz, 2018. ISBN  978-0310758907

Contributions

• Gay Comix #4, "A Word From Our Sponsor..." ^[9]
• Wimmen's Comix #14, "Losers in Love" ^[10]
• StripAIDS USA ^[11]
• Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization of Women ^[12]
• Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists from A to Z ^[13]
• Men Are From Detroit, Women Are From Paris ^[14]

References

External links

• Official website