Julie Paschkis is a painter, textile designer, and award-winning illustrator and author of many books for children, including Vivid: Poems and Notes about Color; Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People by Monica Brown, an Américas Award winner and an Orbis Pictus Honor book; Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams by Janet S. Wong, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman; and Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary by Julie Larios, a Boston Globe–Horn Award Honor Book.
She lives in Seattle with her husband.
Author website: JuliePaschkis.com
Books in order of publication:
Play All Day – 1998
The Nutcracker – 2001
Apple Cake: A Recipe for Love – 2012
Mooshka: A Quilt Story – 2012
Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales – 2015
P. Zonka Lays an Egg – 2015
Magic Spell – 2017
Vivid: Poems & Notes about Color – 2018
Kalinka and Grakkle – 2018
Where Lily Isn’t – 2020
ZigZag – 2023
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