Rebecca Green
Rebecca "Becca" Green is an American illustrator, author, and painter who is known for children's books.
Rebecca Green

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- Name
- Rebecca Green
- Born
- January 30, 1986
- Birthplace
- Owosso, Michigan
- Field
- Children's book illustrations
- Training
- B.F.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- illustrator · painter · designer
- Fields
- book illustration · children's and young adult literature · literary activity
- Languages
- English
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Rebecca "Becca" Green is an American illustrator, author, and painter who is known for children's books.
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Rebecca Green (born 1986) is a designer, illustrator and painter, of American nationality. The designer was born in Owosso.
Rebecca Green worked in Osaka. Activity centred on book illustration, children's and young adult literature and literary activity. Languages used include English.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Rebecca Green • Birth Name — Rebecca Green • Born — January 30, 1986 • Birthplace — Owosso, Michigan • Field — Children's book illustrations • Training — B.F. A., Kendall College of Art and Design, 2010
Biography
Biography
Rebecca Green was born in Owosso, Michigan. She has also lived in Osaka, Nashville, Phoenix, and Denver. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design with a bachelor of fine arts in illustration in 2010.
Career
Career
Green was named 21 of 100 creative forces in Phoenix in the Phoenix New Times. She has illustrated more than one dozen books written by other authors. She has written and illustrated one book, How to Make Friends with a Ghost (Tundra Books, 2017), which the Jim Henson Company began developing for a series in 2021. Green is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Rebecca Green worked in book illustration, children's and young adult literature and literary activity. She worked at Osaka.
Identity
Identity
Rebecca Green is recorded as illustrator, painter and designer.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1986
Rebecca Green was born in 1986 at Owosso.
As writer and illustrator
• How to Make Friends with a Ghost. Tundra Books, 2017.
As illustrator
• The Great Hibernation. Written by Tara Dairman. Wendy Lamb/Random, 2017. • The Unicorn in the Barn. Written by Jacqueline Ogburn. HMH Books, 2017. • The Glass Town Game. Written by Catherynne M. Valente. McElderry, 2017. • From Far Away. Written by Robert Munsch & Saoussan Askar. Annick Press, 2017. • How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals. Written by Sy Montgomery. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. • Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet. Written by Elizabeth Suneby. Kids Can Press, 2018. • A Year with Mama Earth. Written by Rebecca Grabill. Eerdmans, 2019. • Becoming a Good Creature. Written by Sy Montgomery. HMH Books, 2020. • Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer. Written by Lisa Robinson. Schwartz & Wade/Random, 2020. • Kafka and the Doll. Written by Larissa Theule. Viking, 2021. • A Bear Far from Home. Written by Susan Fletcher. Anne Schwartz/Random, 2022. • Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers: A Story Inspired by Loujain Alhathloul. Written by Lina Alhathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery. minedition, 2022.
Critical reception
Publishers Weekly wrote of Green's illustrations in Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet (Kids Can Press, 2018): "The stylized colored-pencil illustrations from Green offer realistic scenes of Bangladeshi village life in muted hues and portray the closeness of Iqbal’s family"; Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Green's illustrations are earthy and colorful and perfectly capture the soul of the story". Publishers Weekly called her illustrations in A Year with Mama Earth (Eerdmans, 2019) as "stylized, textural". Kirkus Reviews noted her work in Becoming a Good Creature (HMH Books, 2020) was "visually pleasing illustrations... rendered in a warm, earth-hued palette, and they have an uncomplicated design that effectively complements the story’s wise, authentic narrative". Kirkus Reviews said Green's work in Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer (Schwartz & Wade/Random, 2020) was "muted, stylized". About the same book, Publishers Weekly said, "mixed media illustrations by Green in dusky pastels provide period atmosphere with fancy costumes, dramatic lighting, and figures that look just a bit like marionettes". The woodcut and German expressionistic appearance of the illustrations in Kafka and the Doll (Viking, 2021) made an impression on one reviewer. A starred review by Booklist noted, "Green tops off her muted scenes of button-eyed figures in, alternately, autumnal and far-flung settings." In a starred review for A Bear Far from Home (Anne Schwartz/Random, 2022), Booklist wrote, "Green’s marvelous folk-style illustrations take their cues from medieval artwork, framing scenes with thick, gold borders and flowery flourishes". In another review, her work was noted for "presenting varied human skin tones throughout"; the review continues, "Green’s stylized gouache and pencil renderings complement through their use of ornate, medieval-inspired borders and floral flourishes". Kirkus Reviews said Green's work in Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers: A Story Inspired by Loujain Alhathloul (minedition, 2022) was "beautifully representational". Kirkus Reviews commented that her first book as both writer and illustrator, How to Make Friends with a Ghost (Tundra Books, 2017), had "a sophisticated, rather adult aesthetic."
Literature
Literature
Literature
Bean and Rebecca Green (editors) (University of Tennessee and University of Maryland) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (Information science and knowledge management series, edited by J.
Scholarly footprint
Literature
Scholarly footprint
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- 1.Trimble, Lynn. Rebecca Green Returns to Phoenix to Paint New Mural at The Lodge on Grand Avenue. Phoenix New Times.
- 2.Rebecca Green - Artist Interview. WOW x WOW. 2015-11-20.
- 3.About. Rebecca Green Illustration.
- 4.How to Make Friends with a Ghost: Alum s New Book Weaves Offbeat Humor, Quirky Illustrations. kcad.ferris.edu.
- 5.Lawton, Claire. 21: Rebecca Green. Phoenix New Times.
- 6.Ghost book to be developed as stop-motion series by Jim Henson Company. The Bookseller.
- 7.SCBWI Public Profile.
- 8.Kirkus Reviews. The Great Hibernation.
- 9.Booklist Online. Great Hibernation by Tara Dairman.
- 10.Kirkus Reviews. The Unicorn in the Barn.
- 11.Booklist Online. Unicorn in the Barn by Jacqueline K. Ogburn.
- 12.Kirkus Reviews. The Glass Town Game.
- 13.The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M Valente. Publishers Weekly.
- 14.Booklist Online. Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente.
- 15.Kirkus Reviews. From Far Away.
- 16.Kirkus Reviews. How to Be a Good Creature.
- 17.How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery1. Publishers Weekly.
- 18.Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet by Elizabeth Suneby. Publishers Weekly.
- 19.Kirkus Reviews. Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea.
- 20.Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet, by By Elizabeth Suneby. Booklist Online.
- 21.Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea. School Library Journal.
- 22.Kirkus Reviews. A Year with Mama Earth.
- 23.A Year With Mama Earth by Rebecca Grabill. Publishers Weekly.
- 24.Booklist Online. Year with Mama Earth by Rebecca Grabill.
- 25.Kirkus Reviews. Becoming a Good Creature.
- 26.Kirkus Reviews. Madame Saqui.
- 27.Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer by Lisa Robinson. Publishers Weekly.
- 28.Booklist Online. Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope Dancer by Lisa Robinson.
- 29.Kirkus Reviews. Kafka and the Doll.
- 30.Booklist Online. Kafka and the Doll by Larissa Theule.
- 31.Kirkus Reviews. A Bear Far from Home.
- 32.A Bear Far from Home by Susan Fletcher. Publishers Weekly.
- 33.Booklist Online. Bear Far from Home by Susan Fletcher.
- 34.Ritter, Cynthia K. Review of A Bear Far from Home. The Horn Book.
- 35.Kirkus Reviews. Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers.
- 36.Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers: A Story Inspired by Loujain AlHathloul by Uma Mishra-Newbery, Lina Al-Hathloul. Publishers Weekly.
- 37.Kirkus Reviews. How to Make Friends with a Ghost.
- 38.Booklist Online. How to Make Friends with a Ghost by Rebecca Green.
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