Jackie Urbanovic

Jackie Urbanovic
Occupation
  • Author
  • illustrator
EducationMaryland Institute College of Art (BFA)
Website
jackieurbanovic.com

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 educational events for children. She was a member of the Children's Book Guild.[3] She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work.[4]

Career

Urbanovic received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.[3] Her career started in graphic design and cartoons, then realizing she would prefer to illustrate children's literature.[5] She studied writing under the mentorship of Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to Highlights, 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 has been credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the fictional Molesworth Institute.[7]

Published works

Books

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

Other published contributions

References

  1. ^ "CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS: Sunday, March 9th 2008". The New York Times. 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ^ "Books". Jackie Urbanovic. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  3. ^ a b "JACKIE URBANOVIC". Children's Book Guild. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15.
  4. ^ "Jackie Urbanovic". R. MICHELSON GALLERIES. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  5. ^ a b Hoffman, Samantha (2016-10-14). "An interview with Jackie Urbanovic". WriteAngles Conference.
  6. ^ "jackie urbanovic". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  7. ^ Stevens, Norman D. (2006-01-01). "The Fully Electronic Academic Library®". College & Research Libraries. 67 (1): 5–14. doi:10.5860/crl.67.1.5. ISSN 2150-6701.
  8. ^ Urbanovic, Jackie (1983). "A Word From Our Sponsor...". Gay Comix. 4: 17–18.
  9. ^ Urbanovic, Jackie (1987). "Losers in Love". Wimmen's Comix. 14.
  10. ^ Robbins, Trina; Sienkiewicz, Bill; Triptow, Robert (1988). Strip AIDS USA : a collection of cartoon art to benefit people with AIDS. Last Gasp. ISBN 0867193735. OCLC 50386336.
  11. ^ Robbins, Trina. (1990). Choices : a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women. Angry Isis Press. OCLC 608139189.
  12. ^ Warren, Roz (1995). Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z. Cleis Press. ISBN 978-1573440080.
  13. ^ Warren, Rosalind, ed. (1999). Men Are From Detroit, Women Are From Paris. Naperville, Illinois: Hysteria Publications. ISBN 1887166513. OCLC 41630898.