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Douglas Florian

Author of Insectlopedia

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Douglas Florian, writer and illustrator of children's books, was born March 18, 1950 in New York City. He was educated at Queens College of the City University of New York, receiving a B.A. in 1973. He also attended the School of Visual Arts in 1976. His early work was as a political illustrator and cartoonist; he did many drawings for The New York Times and for the New Yorker magazine. More recently, his self-illustrated books include A Fisher, Beast Feast, and Bing Bang Boing. His illustrations have appeared in Freeing the Natural Voice (with Kristin Linklater), Dorothy O. Van Woerkom's Tit for Tat, and Thomas M. Cook and Robert A. Russell's Introduction to Management Science. Additionally, he has contributed more than 300 drawings to magazines and newspapers, including Travel and Leisure, Across the Board, and The Nation. Florian has received numerous awards including the Reading Magic Award from Parenting magazine in 1994 for Bing, Bang, Boing. He was the Books of Distinction finalist in the Hungry Mind Review for Bing Bang Boing. Beast Feast received the Gold Medal from the National Parenting Publications awards in 1994, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry in 1995, and Dinothesaurus was a Junior Library Guild Selection in 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Insectlopedia… (more)
Insectlopedia 853 copies, 53 reviews
Beast Feast 494 copies, 12 reviews
mammalabilia 454 copies, 27 reviews
A winter day 325 copies, 5 reviews
lizards, frogs, and polliwogs 295 copies, 25 reviews
in the swim 255 copies, 10 reviews
Laugh-eteria 249 copies, 11 reviews
Winter Eyes 204 copies, 27 reviews
Vegetable Garden (Voyager Books) 187 copies, 26 reviews
A Pig Is Big 186 copies, 18 reviews
I Love My Hat 183 copies, 6 reviews
Poetrees 174 copies, 40 reviews
Bing Bang Boing 138 copies, 3 reviews
Poem Runs: Baseball Poems 135 copies, 14 reviews
Discovering Trees 127 copies, 1 review
on the wing 126 copies, 6 reviews
Autumnblings 124 copies, 16 reviews
Monster Motel 106 copies, 6 reviews
A Beach Day 100 copies, 24 reviews
Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car Poems (Author) 95 copies, 12 reviews
Summersaults 83 copies, 17 reviews
An Auto Mechanic (How We Work) 76 copies, 2 reviews
A Bird Can Fly 72 copies, 15 reviews
The Wonderful Habits of Rabbits 68 copies, 11 reviews
How to Draw a Dragon 62 copies, 12 reviews
zoo's who 62 copies, 11 reviews
Handsprings 61 copies, 12 reviews
Poem Depot: Aisles of Smiles 47 copies, 7 reviews
A Carpenter 34 copies, 18 reviews
A Chef (How We Work) 34 copies, 5 reviews
Bath! Bath! Bath! 33 copies, 13 reviews
Turtle Day 33 copies, 1 review
Discovering Butterflies 31 copies, 2 reviews
City Street 27 copies, 3 reviews
The Curious Cares of Bears 25 copies, 4 reviews
Nature Walk 24 copies, 2 reviews
A Potter 24 copies, 4 reviews
A Year in the Country 22 copies, 2 reviews
A Fisher (How We Work) 19 copies, 2 reviews
At the Zoo 18 copies, 6 reviews
Play! Play! Play! 18 copies, 10 reviews
Bears Are Big (Animals Play) 15 copies, 1 review
Ice! Poems About Polar Life 14 copies, 4 reviews
The City 13 copies
A Summer Day 12 copies, 2 reviews
Airplane ride 9 copies
We Go to Shul 7 copies, 1 review
See for Your Self 6 copies, 5 reviews
Shabbat Shalom! 5 copies, 2 reviews
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Guys Write for Guys Read (Contributor) 752 copies, 13 reviews
Guys Read: True Stories (Contributor) 174 copies, 2 reviews
Tit for Tat (Illustrator) 10 copies, 1 review
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