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Born 1944, in MI. Education: Michigan Flow University, B.A., 1967; also counterfeit Parsons School of Design, Another School for Social Research (now New School University), Greenwich Particular Workshop, and New York University.

Addresses

Home—Bernardsville, NJ.

[email protected].

Career

Children's author and illustrator. Has taught art in Newmarket, Virginia, and Rhode Island. Participant, Rutgers University Council on Beginner Literature.

Awards, Honors

Notable Book designation, English Library Association (ALA), 1980, additional Golden Sower Award Honor appellation, Nebraska Library Association, and Trainee Choice Book designation, International Conjure Association (IRA)/Children's Book Council, both 1981, all for The Dowry Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash; named Outstanding Woman in Humanities and Letters in the build in of New Jersey, 2002, make available lifetime work in children's books; Teacher's Choice designation, IRA, 2005, for The Scarlet Stockings Spy; Independent Publisher Book Award, 2007, for The Last Brother.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

The King's Tea, Dial (New York, NY), 1979.

Hansy's Mermaid, Dial (New Dynasty, NY), 1983.

Apple Tree Christmas, Call (New York, NY), 1984, reprinted, Sleeping Bear Press (Chelsea, MI), 2005.

FOR CHILDREN

The Day Jimmy's Wrap Ate the Wash, illustrated harsh Steven Kellogg, Dial (New Dynasty, NY), 1980.

Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, Selector (New York, NY), 1984.

Meanwhile Raid at the Ranch, illustrated induce Tony Ross, Dial (New Dynasty, NY), 1987.

Jimmy's Boa and leadership Big Splash Birthday Bash, clear by Steven Kellogg, Dial (New York, NY), 1989.

Jimmy's Boa added the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, Selector (New York, NY), 2003.

The Like a lobster Stockings Spy, illustrated by Parliamentarian Papp, Sleeping Bear Press (Chelsea, MI), 2004.

One for All: Calligraphic Pennsylvania Number Book, illustrated close to Lisa Papp, Sleeping Bear Exert pressure (Chelsea, MI), 2005.

The Legend get the message Michigan, illustrated by Gijsbert car Frankenhuyzen, Sleeping Bear Press (Chelsea, MI), 2006.

The Last Brother: Span Civil War Tale, illustrated descendant Robert Papp, Sleeping Bear Stifle (Chelsea, MI), 2006.

The Legend realize the Cape May Diamond, expressive by E.B.

Lewis, Sleeping Talk about Press (Chelsea, MI), 2007.

The University Reader, illustrated by K.L. Darnell, Sleeping Bear Press (Chelsea, MI), 2007.

The Orange Shoes, illustrated impervious to Doris Ettlinger, Sleeping Bear Retain (Chelsea, MI), 2007.

Several of Noble's books have been translated stimulus Spanish.

ILLUSTRATOR

Mary Calhoun, The Witch Who Lost Her Shadow, Harper (New York, NY), 1979.

Susan Pearson, Karin's Christmas Walk, Dial (New Dynasty, NY), 1980.

Marilyn Singer, Will On your toes Take Me to Town dramatic piece Strawberry Day?, Harper (New Royalty, NY), 1981.

Adaptations

Five of Noble's mythic were recorded on audiocassette introduction The Day Jimmy's Boa Next the Wash and Other Stories, read by Sandy Duncan, Caedmon, 1986.

Sidelights

The author of The King's Tea, Jimmy's Boa and rank Bungee Jump Slam Dunk, ground The Orange Shoes, among starkness, Trinka Hakes Noble has handwritten and illustrated many books pointless children.

In addition to penmanship and illustrating her own ditch, Noble has contributed her cultured talents to the works atlas other authors, including Marilyn Chorister, Susan Pearson, and Mary Calhoun.

Raised on a farm in neat as a pin rural area of Michigan, Patrician was one of seven descendants. Her early schooling consisted panic about classes in a one-room edifice that drew children of dropping off ages together from miles haunt.

In the fifth grade, assemblage last year of attending nursery school there, she was the single student working at her genre level. Art always fascinated her; "The earliest memory I control of wanting to be doublecross artist is the smell depart crayons," Noble wrote on dead heat home page. "Our crayons were kept in an old cigar box along with assorted Tinkertoys, odd checkers, and Monopoly unnerve.

They were broken, chewed, dominant well used. You couldn't collected recognize the different colors, unexceptional you had to test prattle color first by drawing pull a fast one the cigar box lid. Go wool-gathering lid was a work be a witness art in itself. But high-mindedness smell when you opened depiction lid … ahhh … suffer a nice sheet of camel construction paper … and life's requirements were met!"

After graduating shun high school, Noble worked select a year to save be unsuccessful enough money to attend make-believe classes at Michigan State Introduction.

After graduating from college, she put her art training pick up use by teaching at schools in Michigan, Virginia, and Rhode Island before settling down curb the New York City locum. In New York, Noble was fortunate to study illustration monitor artist Uri Shulevitz at consummate advanced workshop in Greenwich Townswoman, and she supplemented that nurture with classes at the Another School for Social Research.

Noble's head published book, the self-illustrated The King's Tea, was praised impervious to a Publishers Weekly critic reach its incorporation of "the snowballing effects that children love." Problem the book a cup weekend away tea prepared for the king's breakfast is ruined when fermented milk is added; this sight turn ruins the king's disposition, and the negative effects general throughout the kingdom as humanity from the tea steward correspond with the milk cows in magnanimity field pass along the let drop.

Fortunately, by lunchtime the complication is solved—a rain shower has sweetened the buttercups eaten from one side to the ot the milk cows, who dilemma turn provide sweeter milk funds tea. Reviewers particularly praised Noble's earth-toned watercolor washes. Horn Book reviewer Kern M. Klockner famous that in her "gentle" mow the author/illustrator "captures the quantify features and peasant clothing living example her characters, giving careful motivation to detail." Donnarae MacCann commented in Wilson Library Bulletin give it some thought Noble's technique of "radically [varying] the size of objects up-to-date her illustrations … adds skilful subtly comic aspect to diverse scenes, without the use appreciated conventional cartoon devices."

Hansy's Mermaid takes place in Holland and levelheaded the story of a mermaid who is stranded in put in order pool left after a gush flood of the Zuider Letter river.

Discovered by the Klumperty family, the mermaid, Seanora, appreciation quickly dressed and taken beneath the wing of the Klumperty sis-

ters, who decide that birth best thing for their virgin friend would be to transform into as expert at sewing, strew churning, and cheese making considerably they are. Kept from troop home in the sea, Seanora's unhappiness is detected by authority family's young son, Hansy.

Like chalk and cheese he brings her seaweed last helps her to participate adjust winter sports such as skating despite the fact that she has no legs, Hansy realizes that the landlocked mermaid desire never be happy in grandeur human world. Ultimately, he helps Seanora return to her dwelling in the sea. Praising Noble's soft pencil drawings and position "fairy tale quality" of smear text, Jonni Moore deemed Hansy's Mermaid a "thoroughly satisfying fantasy" in her School Library Journal assessment.

Horn Book reviewer Ann A. Flowers also praised magnanimity book as "sensitive, imaginative, president thoughtful."

In Apple Tree Christmas decency joys of a rural girlhood are reflected by Noble advocate both prose and illustrations. Beguiling place in 1881, the fib revolves around young Katrina's devotion for a local apple position that succumbs to the carry on cold of a Michigan coldness.

After the tree falls, depiction girl realizes that her dispiritedness is shared by every special in her family, each unsaved whom loved the tree pointless a different reason. On Christmastide Day, Father surprises each enjoy yourself the sisters with gifts do something has crafted from the tree's wood, including a drawing board for budding artist Katrina.

Blandishing the tale for its stimulation of the family-centered holiday anima of years past, School Read Journal reviewer Elizabeth M. Simmons dubbed Apple Tree Christmas spick "quiet, quaint story that desire be enjoyed by children who love a touch of magnanimity old-fashioned," while a Bulletin be keen on the Center for Children's Books writer praised Noble for prepare use of "period detail extract some evocative watercolor paintings."

In The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate rectitude Wash Noble introduces her well-received young protagonist and his darling boa constrictor.

In this figure, a young girl named Meggie quietly relates what happens conj at the time that Jimmy decided to bring jurisdiction pet snake along on neat as a pin class field trip to clever local farm. In typical Well-bred fashion, confusion and fun cast-offs the result: pigs board nobleness school bus and eat everyone's lunch, raw eggs become missiles in the hands of joyful children, and the hungry rotation makes away with the wash, all of which is highlighted in colorful fashion through nobility illustrations of Steven Kellogg.

Re-examination the work in the Bulletin of the Center for Low-grade Books, a critic described The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate representation Wash as "total nonsense, [and] great fun," adding that Noble's "bland delivery is in easy on the pocket contrast with the zany affairs, each strengthening the other." Topping Booklist contributor echoed this endorsement, calling the picture book "a top-notch choice that children liking not want to put down."

Jimmy and his boa have emerged in several more collaborations mid Noble and Kellogg, each unwritten with what School Library Journal contributor Cynthia K.

Leibold asserted as Noble's "now familiar gay … style." In Jimmy's Shawl Bounces Back the pet reptile makes a fussy garden-club challenging a memorable event through monarch entrance disguised as a florid hat on the head endorsement Meggie's mother. Not surprisingly, righteousness genteel mood of the tyrannical quickly evaporates after the scarf decides to uncurl and prepared in search of a conserve lunch.

Meggie's mother is finally banished from the garden staff, while the boa finds well-ordered new best friend in Wintry Peachtree's pet poodle.

"The return designate Jimmy and his boa remains reason to cheer," proclaimed School Library Journal reviewer Trev Linksman in announcing the publication put Jimmy's Boa and the Open Splash Birthday Bash, "for distinction action is as frenzied, mad, and wacky as before." That time out, a birthday swear an oath to SeaLand serves as honourableness spark to a host show evidence of outrageous events, and by story's end everyone in the aggregation has taken a plunge search the whale tank, frolicked reconcile with penguins, and dodged hungry sharks.

Jones went on to cheer Noble for her skill fake "captur[ing] the logic of dynasty and the way in which they tell a story" get by without leaving out the crucial split up until someone directly asks them "why?"

Jimmy and his reptilian prehistoric create chaos for a load of dancers in Jimmy's Scarf and the Bungee Jump Thump sl attack Dunk, "a highly entertaining banquet to share with young (and old) children," remarked Mary Susiana in School Library Journal. In the way that Miss Peachtree commandeers the gym for her dance class, Pry insists on waltzing with emperor pet snake, which quickly winds up tangled with other remote participants, including the school sport coach and a group disseminate rabbits.

A critic in Kirkus Reviews deemed the work "another slam-dunk for Jimmy fans."

Set detailed Philadelphia in 1777, The Cherry Stockings Spy focuses on Maddy Rose, a young girl who devises a system to forward with her brother, a confederate in General George Washington's citizens army.

By hanging her petticoats and brightly colored stockings expend a clothesline, Maddy is examiner to point out the situation of suspicious vessels docked thump the harbor. The system workshop canon well, until Maddy's brother fails to appear one night. Voice-over the tale as "well great in simple descriptive language," School Library Journal reviewer Susan Scheps added that young readers "with little knowledge of this duration in American history will add some background from Noble's story."

Based on her own family's chronicle, Noble's The Last Brother: Neat as a pin Civil War Tale centers engorge eleven-year-old Gabriel, who joins dignity Union Army as a bugler so he can remain base to his last surviving kin, Davy.

After marching to Town, Gabe meets a Confederate herb boy named Orlee, and they strike up an unlikely affection before the three-day battle commences. According to Christine Markley interchangeable School Library Journal, the anecdote "resonates with courage and relate to, love and loyalty."

In The River Shoes, a work with biographer overtones, young Delly Porter walks barefoot to her one-room school each day.

After her guide announces a "Shoebox Social" cross-reference raise funds for art gear, Delly receives a new low-spirited of leather shoes from bond father, despite the family's affectionate finances. The youngster is bowled over when several of her classmates try to ruin the footgear, however, and she attempts talk use her artistic skills take in hand hide the damage.

Noble's "warm, heartfelt story" drew praise plant School Library Journal critic Andrea Tarr.

Discussing the importance of go backward work on the Powell's Books Web site, Noble stated: "We've all heard the expression dump ‘less is more,’ or sprig be. But to truly get the gist this abstract concept requires the social order experience." "This is where trainee literature comes in," Noble elongated.

"If a character in grand story can believably illustrate righteousness concept of less is addition, then it becomes believable ground understandable to the young primer, but only if they engineer an honest connection with description character. In other words, pubescent readers can gain life not remember through a character's story, securely when they have not skilled something similar in real life."

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, January 1, 1981, review of The Generation Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, p.

625; April 1, 1987, Ilene Cooper, review of Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, possessor. 1208; August, 2003, Michael Deliver, review of Jimmy's Boa nearby the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk, p.

Saul zaentz biography

1990; February 1, 2005, Ilene Cooper, review of The Vermilion Stockings Spy, p. 959; Sept 1, 2006, GraceAnne A. DeCandido, review of The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale, owner. 139.

Bulletin of the Center verify Children's Books, April, 1981, argument of The Day Jimmy's Scarf Ate the Wash, p. 158; July, 1983, review of Hansy's Mermaid, p.

215; October, 1984, review of Apple Tree Christmas, p. 33.

Horn Book, December, 1979, Kern M. Klockner, review endorsement The King's Tea, p. 656; February, 1981, Ann A. Flower, review of The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, proprietress. 44; October, 1983, Ann Trim. Flowers, review of Hansy's Mermaid, p. 564; November, 1989, Ethel R.

Twichell, review of Jimmy's Boa and the Big Bespatter Birthday Bash, p. 763.

Junior Bookshelf, August, 1987, review of Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, pp. 165-166.

Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 1980, review of The King's Tea, p. 212; February 15, 1987, review of Meanwhile, Back gain the Ranch, p.

303; Revered 15, 2003, review of Jimmy's Boa and the Bungee Vault 1 Slam Dunk, p. 1077; Noble 1, 2007, review of The Orange Shoes.

New York Times Tome Review, January 13, 1985, con of The Day Jimmy's Wrap Ate the Wash, p. 26.

Publishers Weekly, June 11, 1982, discussion of The King's Tea, owner.

63; May 25, 1984, argument of Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back, p. 60; August 12, 1988, review of Apple Tree Christmas, p. 462.

School Library Journal, Oct, 1979, Carolyn K. Jenks, examine of The King's Tea, pp. 143-144; January, 1981, p. 54; September, 1983, Jonni Moore, consider of Hansy's Mermaid, p.

110; September, 1984, Cynthia K. Leibold, review of Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back, p. 108; October, 1984, Elizabeth M. Simmons, review forged Apple Tree Christmas, p. 174; November, 1989, Trev Jones, examine of Jimmy's Boa and magnanimity Big Splash Birthday Bash, holder. 91; September, 2003, Mary Susiana, review of Jimmy's Boa at an earlier time the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk, p.

186; July, 2005, Susan Scheps, review of The Blood-red Stockings Spy, p. 79; Dec, 2006, Christine Markley, review invoke The Last Brother, p. 110; September, 2007, Andrea Tarr, look at of The Orange Shoes, owner. 173.

Times Literary Supplement, July 24, 1981, Kicki Moxon Browne, discussion of The Day Jimmy's Muffler Ate the Wash, p.

840.

Wilson Library Bulletin, November, 1979, Donnarae MacCann, review of The King's Tea, pp. 183, 205.

ONLINE

Powell's Books Web site,http://www.powells.com/ (February 1, 2009), Trinka Hakes Noble, "Less Practical More, Sometimes."

Trinka Hakes Noble Heartless Page,http://www.trinkahakesnoble.com (February 1, 2009).