From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:30:49 -0500

An untimely death, indeed, as Lee Bennett Hopkins said. Trina Schart Hyman lost a truly heroic battle with cancer last Friday.

For forty years she has graced children's literature with her vision, making the imaginative world real and the ordinary world magical. How fitting that her latest work was illustrating Margaret Hodges' succinct and poetic story, Merlin and the Making of the King. Trina was our
"once and future" illustrator, a sparkling personality, forthright and honest, feisty and funny and oh, so talented.

While we are all sharing poetry with children in honor of Nancy Larrick, let's give those young, impressionable minds a long and searching look at St. George and his Dragon, Merlin and Arthur, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Red Riding Hood, Herschel and his Hanukkah goblins, Scrooge as only Trina could imagine him, the eternally snowing Child's Christmas in Wales, and that exquisite gem of a holiday story she both wrote and illustrated, How Six Found Christmas. (If you don't know this one, consider it right now for every child on your holiday list).

Caldecott medalist (for St. George and the Dragon) and three-time honor book artist, two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book award for The Fortune-tellers and King Stork, Trina Hyman will long be remembered and celebrated for the vision she shared with all of us.

Connie Rockman

On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 06:22 PM, Lbhcove at aol.com wrote:
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