Martha Weston
Author of Jack and Jill and Big Dog Bill: A Phonics Reader
About the Author
Martha Weston was born in North Carolina in 1947 and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan and after graduation, moved to San Francisco. Once there, she earned a living by doing freelance work on paste ups, animation ink and paint and illustration. The first book show more Weston illustrated was I Hate Mathematics in 1975. The first book she wrote and illustrated was Peony's Rainbow which was published in 1981. Since then, Weston has illustrated the Nate the Great Series of stories from Delacorte Press, as well as the Curious George Series for Houghton Mifflin. Over the course of her career, Weston has illustrated over 60 books for children, 11 of which she also wrote. In may of 2003 she published her first children's novel, Act I, Act II, Act Normal. One of the things that made Weston so unique among illustrators was that she was colorblind. She managed to work around that by carefully labeling her paints and having her colleagues check her work. Martha West died September 4, 2003 of heart disease. She was 56 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Martha Weston
Associated Works
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 12, August 1980 — Illustrator — 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1980 — Illustrator — 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, September 1980 — Illustrator — 1 copy
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- Gender
- female
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Jack and Jill and Big Dog Bill: A Phonics Reader… by Martha Weston
Adventure
29 months - a very basic repetitive read, good for very early reading.
The story is about a scientist who is traveling back in time to find evidence of a sabre-tooth cat. Both him and his baby go back in time and they eventually find the cat who is hungry to eat them. They go back to the present and the baby shows the scientist all the animal bones he discovered.
Dr. Clock was an okay book. The story was enjoyable but there were not many characters. I felt that since the scientist there was a lot more that the author could have put into her book instead of one mammoth and a sabre-tooth cat. The illustrations were well done and they represented the ice age perfectly.… (more)
Dr. Clock was an okay book. The story was enjoyable but there were not many characters. I felt that since the scientist there was a lot more that the author could have put into her book instead of one mammoth and a sabre-tooth cat. The illustrations were well done and they represented the ice age perfectly.… (more)
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