Lives: in Seattle (raised near Philadelphia)
Family: She lives with her husband, Joe Max Emminger
Not only has Julie Paschkis become one of my favorite illustrators, but I recently discovered that she creates FABRIC, too. FABRIC! I love FABRIC! I want to make a quilt - for ME - from Julie Paschkis fabrics! You can purchase online, but it looks like there are some fabric stores in Washington state that carry her line (perhaps near where she resides?) Road trip!
She's part of a blog with four other author/ illustrators: Julie Larios, Margaret Chodo-Irvine, Bonny Becker, and Laura Kvasnofski. Find it here.
written byJanet Lord, 2008
Albert helps everyone in the neighborhood by fixing fences and leaky faucets and even mending broken teacups. So when he gets a terrible cold, the neighborhood comes together to fix him a meal and make him feel better. I wish I had an Albert.
Apple Cake: A Recipe for Love (2012)
Bottle Houses (Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker) 2004
written by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez) 2009
Antoni Gaudi was an architect, born in 1852, that devoted his career to the city and surroundings of Barcelona at the turn of the century. Apparently, these magnificent creations are the number one tourist draw to that city. I wonder if you can make it as a tourist there with no Spanish?
Fat Cat (Margaret MacDonald) 2001
First Steps (Lee Wardlaw) 1999
Fortune Telling, Palmistry, and Tarot (Dennis Fairchild (1996)
Paul Fleischman, 2007
which make the visual enjoyment of this story even more wonderful. The fairly small amount of text is written in small white boxes that are framed by batik-looking backgrounds. Paschis uses designs and motifs from each of the various cultures that she's depicting. The illustration for each is placed in a rectangle above the text, and she includes as much information from the country as possible. The only thing that never changes is Cinderella's face.
written by Margaret Read Macdonald, 2007
I do love the illustrations. They have such a folksly, Scandinavian/Russian look to them. Julie Pachkis is such a wonderful artist. Each illustration is encased with the same rope that makes the squares on the endpaper. What is left in the white space are the words and branches of plants from the endpapers.
Happy Adoption Day! (John McCutcheon) 2001
Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia (Won-Ldy Paye) 2002
Here Comes Grandma! (Janet Lord) 2005
I Have a Little Dreidel (Maxie Baum) 2006
Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures (Julie Larios) 2008
Italian Soup Cookbook (Joe Famularo) 1997
Knock on Wood (Janet Wong) 2003
Mooshka, A Quilt Story (2012)
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile (Won-Ldy Paye) 2003
Night Garden (Janet Wong) 2000
written by Hena Khan 2008
The illustrations. They remind me of batik, my very favorite fabric. The outline for each picture is done in an ivory/cream-colored line. How? It says they were "rendered in gouache and permanent masking medium on paper". I'm not sure what this means, but it sure is intriguing. And there's no negative space. None at all. Each illustration is framed by a shape; rectangles, tablets, mosque-shaped araches. And outside those frames, all the way to the edge of the page, is an Islamic tile motif...lots and lots of different designs in rich blues, aquas, turquoises. Camels and suns and leaves and flowers. Its almost like that thin ivory/cream line is the grout holding hundreds of pieces of ceramic together. Mmmmmm. Love it.
Nutcracker, The (2001)
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People (Monica Brown) 2011
Play All Day (1998)
P. Zonka Lays an Egg (coming 2015)
So Happy, So Sad (1995)
So Sleepy, Wide Awake (1994)
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian (Margarita Engle) 2010
Talking Vegetables (Won-Ldy Paye & Margaret H. Lippert) 2006
Through Georgia's Eyes (Rachel Victoria Rodriguez) 2006
Twist: Yoga Poems (Janet S. Wong) 2007
Where is Catkin? (Janet Lord) 2010
Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar? (George Shannon) 2013
Julie Larios, 2006
14 poems about 14 animals, illustrated in bright colors on a white-framed page. Really lovely illustrations.
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