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Contact Information

First Name

Bryn

Last Name

Barnard

Street Address

417 Point Caution Drive

City

Friday Harbor

State

WA

Country

United States

Zip/Postal Code

98250

personal web address

http://www.brynbarnard.com

type of art work

realistic, painterly oil and mixed media illustrations of animals, multi-cultural children and adults, real and imagined; landscapes and cityscapes of any era; historical recreations of events from different cultures and time periods; science and science fiction imagery of space and other worlds

Published Works

Author and Illustrator, Dangerous Planet: Natural Disasters That Changed History. Crown, Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History. Crown, Illustrator, Harry Harrison, Galactic Dreams. Tor, Joyce Milton, Gorillas: Gentle Giants of the Forest. Random House, Victoria Crenson, Bay Shore Park: The Death and Life of an Amusement Park. Freeman, Mary Quattlebaum, In the Beginning. Time-Life, Herman J. Viola, North American Indians. Crown, Lucille Recht Penner, Westward Ho!: The Story of the Pioneers. Random House, Melvin Berger, Don't Believe It!: Fibs and Facts about Animals. Scholastic, Marjorie Cowley, Anooka's Answer. Clarion, Chris Eboch, The Well of Sacrifice. Clarion, Lucille Recht Penner, Big Birds. Random House, Nathan Zimelman, Sold!: A Mothematics Adventure. Charlesbridge, Michelle Knudsen, Colorful Chameleons! Random House, Shirley-Rae Redmond, Tentacles!: Tales of the Giant Squid. Random House, Dylan Nash, Dinosaurs. Intervisual, Andrea von Botefuhr, The Land of Smaerd. KnowWonder

phone number

360 378-6355

Bio

Bryn Barnard's books for young adults have been called "part Jared Diamond ... part Stephen Jay Gould" by the New York Times Book Review, "engrossing" and "pleasantly lurid" by the Wall Street Journal and "the stuff of nightmares" by the Denver Post. The Christian Science Monitor has called him "one of the masters of science fiction art."

Bryn has been illustrating for 20 years. He studied art and anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He also studied at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang where he was a member of a Malaysian shadow puppet theater troupe and worked in a batik factory.

Bryn's clients include National Geographic, NASA, Scientific American, Time Warner, Disney/Hyperion, Random House, Crown, Knopf, Scholastic and Houghton Mifflin. At Children's Hosptial, Seattle he has painted several large murals for the Melinda French Gates Ambulatory Care Building and the Janet Sinegal Patient Care Building. His murals were featured on the cover of HealthCare Design magazine.

He has received honors from the both Society of Illustrators New York and Los Angeles as well as a Fulbright fellowship and a Crane-Rogers Foundation fellowship. His book "Dangerous Planet" was recommended by the American Library Association as appropriate reading for children traumatized by Hurricane Katrina. It was also lauded in "Writing Children's Books for Dummies."

Bryn's book "Outbreak" was chosen as the "cover of the week" by Publisher's Weekly, was listed as one of the best books of 2006 by the New York Public Library and was a selection of Voice of Youth Advocates. It is included in Nancy Pearl's list of best children's books, "Book Crush".

Bryn lives on an island in the Salish Sea with his wife Rebecca and two children, Wynn and Parks, plus five ducks, two cats, and a dog.

History

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