Lindsay barrett george biography

Lindsay Barrett George (born June 12, 1952) is an.
When I moved to New York City in 1977, I worked in children's publishing, but on the weekends, I made little wordless picture books – mostly about New York City.
Children's book author Lindsay Barrett George is widely known for her books about nature and has been both a successful writer and illustrator.

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Book Reviews

A question as old as time: can you keep a secret? "Yes," says the listener, but we know the answer is "no". It is always 'no'. A secret is the hardest thing to keep. Lindsay Barrett George takes this simple story as a vehicle for her wonderful lush nature drawings. Drawing animals is her first love, she says in her biography, and it shows in her work.

The story begins with Mr. Snail asking mouse if he could keep a secret. "Yes," says mouse. "Then listen," says Mr. Snail. We don't know what the secret is, but mouse does, and he can't keep it to himself. He only shares it with the beetle. Of course the beetle can keep a secret, but he shares it just once: with the turtle....the story is off and rolling.

The backdrop is rich and varied. "I used sticks as well as bark, moss, silk leaves and flowers, coffee (to simulate the earth) and pebbles to create the artwork for The Secret," says Lindsay Barrett George. The gorgeously drawn animals stand out against this background. The illustrator traces the secret's journe

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I don’t ever remember not drawing.

As a child, I doodled animals in the sand in front of our house (I was born on a Caribbean island).

I doodled animals on the walls of my bedroom and I doodled animals on the soft brown paper bags from the grocery store.

Animals were a theme then, as now.

My sense of wonder and belief in the power of books goes way back, to my encounter with my parents’ volume of the “Wonder Book of Knowledge.” On page 469, there was a photo of a sea monster caught off the coast of Florida.

At the age of two, I believed that the sea monster was alive in the book, and I would avoid walking too closely to the Wonder Book—I didn’t want to be eaten by the sea creature!

Do books have power? You bet.

When I moved to this country in 1960, I lived in New Jersey with my Mother and Father. Since Spanish was my first language, it took a while for me to learn English.

The books that I looked at, but couldn’t read, were fairy tales. I loved them because of the pictures. It was then, I think, that I fell in love with picture b

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Lindsay Barrett George

American writer and illustrator

Lindsay Barrett George (born June 12, 1952) is an American illustrator and author of children's books. George has achieved her greatest notoriety for her Long Pond and Who's Been Here? series of books.^[1] Her books focus on the themes of nature and the lives of animals that inhabit it.^[2] The Library of Congress named George's book Box Turtle at Long Pond a Children's Book of the Year in 1989.^[3]

Early life and education

George lives in the West Indies and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from The Beard School in Orange, New Jersey (now Morristown-Beard School) in 1972. George presented the Lehman Lecture on "When Art & Words Marry: The Power of the Picture Book" at the school in 2013.^[4] After studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York in 1974. George completed her Master's of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin