Marjorie Priceman
RISD BFA '81 [Illustration]
Author and artist Marjorie Priceman is an illustrator who, since
beginning her career in the late 1980s, has found herself in great
demand due to her humorous and energetic artwork. Although she has
created art for the texts of a variety of noted writers, including Jack
Prelutsky, Amy MacDonald, and Nancy Van Laan, Priceman has found that
illustrating someone else's story is not nearly as fun as illustrating
her own. After taking an advanced writing course, she has gone on to
pen the original picture books My Nine Lives: by Clio, Emeline at the Circus, and Princess Picky, earning an extra dollop of enthusiastic praise from critics. Priceman's books "are rollicking and riotous," commented a Publishers Weekly
reviewer, adding that "it often seems as though the borders of the
pages are unable to contain the energy of her artwork and creations."
Praising the illustrator in a profile for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
online, Deborah Stevenson wrote: "There's a delicious artistic gaiety"
to the illustrator's work that recalls "earlier styles; the result is
not retro effect, but a feeling that something that's been missing has
been restored."
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