Trina Schart Hyman
Trina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939 – November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends. She won the 1985 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges.[1]
Biography[]
Born in Philadelphia to Margaret Doris Bruck and Albert H. Schart, she grew up in Wyncote, Pennsylvania[2] and learned to read and draw at an early age. Her favorite story as a child was Little Red Riding Hood, and she spent an entire year of her childhood wearing a red cape.
She enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts) in 1956, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1959 after marrying Harris Hyman, a mathematician and engineer. She graduated from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1960.
The couple then moved to Stockholm, Sweden, for two years, where Trina studied at the Konstfackskolan (Swedish State Art School) and illustrated her first children's book, titled Toffe och den lilla bilen (Toffe and the Little Car).
In 1963, the couple's daughter, Katrin Tchana (née Hyman), was born, but in 1968, they divorced, and Trina and Katrin moved to Lyme, New Hampshire. Trina lived for some time with children's writer and editor (with whom she collaborated on several projects). For about the last decade of her life, her romantic partner was teacher Jean K. Aull.[3] She was the first art director of Cricket Magazine, from 1973 to 1979, and contributed illustrations regularly until her death.
Many of her illustrations can be quite complex. For example, in one scene in Saint George and the Dragon, the dragon's tail stretches into the border artwork of the next page.[4]
She is also considered one of the first white American illustrators (after Ezra Jack Keats) to incorporate black characters into her illustrations regularly, as a matter of principle, in large part triggered by her daughter's marriage to a man from Cameroon. Her grandchildren appear in several of her books.
Mother and daughter Katrin Tchana collaborated on The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women, retold by Katrin (2000); Sense Pass King: A Tale from Cameroon (2002); and Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Goddesses from Around the World (2006). A print portfolio was created from this book by Katrin Tchana and the Child at Heart Gallery.
Awards and honors[]
Hyman won the annual Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book, for Saint George and the Dragon, published by Little, Brown in 1984. Margaret Hodges wrote the text, retelling Edmund Spenser's version of the Saint George legend.[1] She also won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for picture books, recognizing King Stork (Little, Brown, 1973), text by Howard Pyle (1853–1911).She won the Golden Kite Award for her illustration of Little Red Riding Hood in 1984.[5]
She received three Caldecott Honors, for her own retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in 1984, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel in 1990, and A Child's Calendar by John Updike in 2000.[1] And she was a Boston Globe–Horn Book picture book runner-up twice, for All in Free but Janey by Elizabeth Johnson in 1968 and On to Widecombe Fair by Patricia Gauch in 1978.
The Golem by Barbara Rogasky and illustrated by Hyman won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category.[6]
Works[]
As writer and illustrator[]
- , 1969.
- (Reteller) The Sleeping Beauty, from the Brothers Grimm, 1977.
- , 1980.
- , 1981.
- (Reteller) Little Red Riding Hood, from the Brothers Grimm, 1983.
- , 1984.
As illustrator[]
- Hertha von Gebhardt, Toffe och den lilla bilen (Rabén & Sjögren, 1961) – as Trina Schart, Swedish-language edition of Toffi und das kleine Auto (Toffi and the Tiny Auto), OCLC 72336530[7]
- Laurence Rittenhouse, God Created Me (Boston: United Church Press, 1963) – as Trina Schart Hyman, OCLC 1402954
- , , 1963.
- , , 1963.
- , , 1964.
- , , 1964.
- Eileen O'Faolain, , 1965.
- , 1965.
- Ruth Sawyer, , 1966.
- , , 1966.
- Virginia Haviland, reteller, , 1966.
- , , 1966.
- , , 1967.
- , , 1967.
- , Moon Eyes, 1967.
- John T. Moore, , 1967.
- Paul Tripp, , 1968.
- , , 1968.
- , , 1968.
- , , 1968.
- and , editors, , 1968.
- Tom McGowen, , 1969.
- , , 1969.
- Peter Hunter Blair, , 1969.
- , , 1969.
- Ruth Nichols, , 1969.
- , , 1969.
- Paul Tripp, , 1970.
- Donald J. Sobol, , 1970.
- , reteller, , 1970.
- Mollie Hunter, , 1970.
- Tom McGowen, , 1970.
- Phyllis Krasilovsky, , 1970.
- The Pumpkin Giant, retold by , 1970.
- , The Ghost Next Door, 1971.
- , , 1971.
- , , 1971.
- Carolyn Meyer, , 1971.
- , , 1971.
- , reteller, , 1971.
- Eleanor Cameron, , 1971.
- Eleanor Clymer, , 1972.
- , , 1972.
- Ruth Nichols, , 1972.
- Eva Moore, , 1972.
- Jan Wahl, , 1972.
- Phyllis Krasilovsky, , 1972.
- , , 1972.
- , editor, , 1972.
- Carol Ryrie Brink, , 1972.
- Eve Merriam, reteller, Epaminondas, 1972.
- Howard Pyle, King Stork, 1973.
- Hans Christian Andersen, , edited by , 1973.
- , , 1973.
- , compiler, , 1973.
- Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn, revised edition, 1973.
- Elizabeth Coatsworth, , 1973.
- , , 1974.
- Doris Gates, , 1974.
- , editor, , 1974.
- Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin, 1974.
- , , 1974.
- Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Snow White, translated from the German by Paul Heins, 1974.
- Jean Fritz, , 1974.
- , , 1974.
- , , 1975.
- , , 1975.
- Jane Curry, , 1975.
- , , 1975.
- Jean Fritz, , 1976.
- , editor, , 1976.
- William Sleator, Among the Dolls, 1976.
- , , 1977.
- Spiridon Vangheli, , 1977.
- Norma Farber, , 1977.
- , South Star, 1977.
- , , 1978.
- , , 1979.
- Norma Farber, , 1979.
- , , 1979.
- , , 1979.
- , editor, , 1980.
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, 1980.
- , editor, , 1980.
- Kathryn Lasky, The Night Journey, 1981.
- Jean Fritz, , 1981.
- Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Rapunzel, retold by , 1982.
- and , , 1983.
- , Big Sixteen, 1983.
- Astrid Lindgren, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, 1983.
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol: In Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 1983.
- , , 1984.
- (With Hilary Knight and others) and , , 1984.
- Margaret Hodges, Saint George and the Dragon, A Golden Legend Adapted from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen, 1984.
- Elizabeth Winthrop, The Castle in the Attic, 1985.
- Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales, 1985.
- Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, The Water of Life, retold by , 1986.
- Vivian Vande Velde, , 1986.
- , compiler, , 1987.
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1988.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, adapted by Barbara Cohen, 1988.
- (With Marcia Brown and others) Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, compiler, , 1988.
- Swan Lake, retold by Margot Fonteyn, 1989.
- Eric Kimmel, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, 1989.
- Margaret Hodges, , 1990.
- (With Steven Kellogg and others) , Marilyn Sachs, compilers, Lois Lowry, writer, , 1990.
- , compiler and editor, , 1991.
- Lloyd Alexander, , 1992.
- Marion Dane Bauer, , 1992.
- Michael J. Rosen, , 1993.
- Eric A. Kimmel, reteller, Iron John, 1994.
- Eric A. Kimmel, reteller, , 1995.
- , , 1996.
- Margaret Hodges, adapter, Comus, 1996.
- , , 1996.
- Howard Pyle, Bearskin, 1997.
- John Updike, , 1999.
- , reteller, , 2000.
- , , 2001.
- , , 2002.
- , , 2005
- Contributor of illustrations to textbooks and Cricket magazine.
- , , 2006.
Adaptations[]
- was adapted as a filmstrip with record, , 1975.
- was filmed as a Reading Rainbow special, PBS-TV, 1983.
- Little Red Riding Hood was adapted as a filmstrip with cassette, Listening Library, 1984.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–Present". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association.
- ^ Hyman | Pennsylvania Center for the Book Retrieved 2018-08-18.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (November 24, 2004). "Trina Schart Hyman, Book Illustrator, Dies at 65". The New York Times. Retrieved May 26, 2010.
- ^ Lacy, Lyn Ellen (1986). Art and Design in Children's Picture Books: An Analysis of Caldecott Award-Winning Illustrations. American Library Association. pp. 210–211. ISBN 0-8389-0446-7.
- ^ The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1985. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc. 1984. p. 415. ISBN 0-911818-71-5.
- ^ "Past Winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
- ^ The Library of Congress notes one title-page credit as Trina Schart in a copyright-1970 book (All Kinds of Signs, not in its collection, OCLC 4025343). Among 133 catalog records, earliest publication year 1964, it shows two credits as Trina S. Hyman, five as Trina Hyman, none as Trina Schart.
- Other sources
- "Trina Schart Hyman", Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed., 8 vols. Gale Group, 2002
- Biography of Hyman, with links to bibliography, and interview
- Obituary in The Boston Globe
External links[]
- "Trina Schart Hyman papers, 1965-1981" (papers at the University of Oregon) at Archives West (OrbisCascade.org) – with Historical Note, biographical
- Child at heart gallery[clarification needed]
- Trina Schart Hyman at AuthorWars.com
- Trina Schart Hyman at Library of Congress Authorities, with 131 catalog records
- 1939 births
- 2004 deaths
- American children's writers
- American women illustrators
- American children's book illustrators
- Caldecott Medal winners
- 20th-century illustrators of fairy tales
- University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni
- Deaths from breast cancer
- People from Cheltenham, Pennsylvania
- People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- People from Lyme, New Hampshire
- LGBT artists from the United States
- LGBT people from Pennsylvania
- 20th-century American women artists