Valorie Fisher

Valorie Fisher is the creator of Look and Cook:Snacks, Now You Know How it Works, Now You Know What You Eat, Everything I Need To Know Before I Turn Five, I Can Do It Myself, How High Can a Dinosaur Count?, Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears and My Big Brother and My Big Sister (both Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award winners). She is the illustrator of The Fantastic 5 &10¢ Store by J. Patrick Lewis and the Moxy Maxwell series of books by Peggy Gifford.

REVIEWS

"a great mix of elegance and goofiness" and "guaranteed fun" wrote School Library Journal in two starred reviews

"sassy" starred review Publisher's Weekly

"oozes with fun" Booklist

"gives her tableaux a sugared quality; you feel vaguely that you ought to be able to pluck the objects off the page and eat them." Wall Street Journal

For more of her "elegance and goofiness" visit valoriefisher.com

AWARDS

My Big Brother, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, 2003

My Big Sister, Association of Booksellers for Children Best Book for Children 2003

My Big Sister, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, 2004

Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears, Child Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2004

Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears, Nick Jr. Best Books of the Year, 2004

My Big Sister, Parenting Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2004

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2007

Everything I Need To Know Before I'm Five, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Book of 2011

EXHIBITIONS

The Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration, 2004

Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY July 1 - October 21, 2007

The Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, MA Nov. 15, 2007 -March 9, 2008

Los Angles Public Library, Los Angles, CA October 4, 2008 - Jan.11, 2009

For more of her "elegance and goofiness" visit http://blog.valoriefisher.com/