Michael Garland
, b. 1952
Michael Garland was born in New York City in 1952, and lives and works in Patterson, New York. He studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute He is an artist, illustrator and author of picture books, including the “Miss Smith” series of educational fantasy stories (Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook; Miss Smith and the Haunted Library; Miss Smith Under the Ocean), a number of Christmas-related picture books (The Mouse Before Christmas; Christmas Magic; Oh What a Christmas), board books for very young readers, and whimsical stories such as King Puck, and Icarus Swinebuckle. Garland has written or illustrated over thirty picture books, and illustrated for celebrity authors such as the singer Gloria Estefan (the Noelle the Bulldog series), and the crime novelist James Patterson (SantaKid). Garland’s style is highly coloured and mixes whimsy with a hyperrealistic almost three-dimensional quality.
Source:
Official website (accessed: July 3, 2018).
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.au
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