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         To take us Lands away
                                ~ Emily Dickinson

  
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PONDER GOEMBEL
 

Ponder Goembel always loved art. She grew up in the multicultural city of Baltimore among artistic family and friends. She attended summer classes at the Maryland Institute of Art and created brochures and posters in high school. Later, she attended the Philadelphia College of Art, now part of the University of the Arts. Majoring in illustration, she acquired her first freelance job before graduation.  She continued to work for clients in Philadelphia and New York for about ten years. Many of her illustrations could be seen in advertisements, pamphlets, magazines, record album covers and book jackets.

Ponder’s first picture book and her first child came at about the same time. Reading to her daughter influenced her to continue in the children’s book field.

Ponder is a frequent visitor to schools, libraries and book stores where she loves to show and tell how she creates children’s illustrations.

 
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Author Visit

Ponder Goembel visits elementary schools, libraries and conferences to show and tell about illustrating picture books. With slides and an interactive drawing demonstration, she shows how to “put on your thinking cap” to create images that best illustrate the words of a book. Her Artists’ Residency includes a workshop that encourages literacy through illustration.

To read more about Ponder, visit www.pondergoembel.com.

 

Books

 
     

Mama Mine, Mama Mine
by Rita Gray
Dutton
Coming March 2008

 Castaway Cats
Lisa Wheeler
Atheneum 		Dinosnores
by Kelly DiPucchio
HarperCollins		 Sailor Moo: Cows at Sea
by Lisa Wheeler
Atheneum
           
Old Cricket
Lisa Wheeler
Atheneum 		"Hi, Pizza Man"
Virginia Walter
Orchard Books		  
 

 

Check your library for other books illustrated by Ponder Goembel:

The Night Iguana Left Home, by Megan McDonald ( DK Ink, Dorling Kindersley)
Good Day, Good Night, by Marilyn Singer ( Marshal Cavendish)
A Basket Full of White Eggs: Riddle-Poems From Around The World, by Brian Swann (Orchard Books)
Hear the Wind Blow: American Folk Songs Retold, by Scott R. Sanders (Bradbury Press)

 

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Honors and Awards

Old Cricket

  • Carolyn W. Field Award, 2004 Honor Book
  • Best Books 2003, School Library Journal
  • Best Children’s Books of the Year 2003, New York Public Library
  • Best Children’s Books of the Year 2003, Bank Street College
  • Mitten Award 2003, Michigan Library Association
  • Youth All Stars 2003, Book Links

Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea

  • Golden Kite Honor for Illustration, 2002, S.C.B.W.I.
  • A Field Guide to Parenting, The Best Children’s Books of 2002

The Night Iguana Left Home

  • Philadelphia Children’s Reading Round Table Book of the Month, Oct 1999

“Hi, Pizza Man!”

  • Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award 1997
  • Sleepers, 100 Books Too Good to Miss, School Library Journal

A Basket Full of White Eggs

  • Philadelphia Children’s Reading Round Table Book of the Month, April1988

 

Exhibitions

  • The Original Art 2002, The Society of Illustrators, Sailor Moo; Cow at Sea
  • 45th Annual National Exhibition, The Society of Illustrators, Sailor Moo; Cow at Sea
  • Donnell Library Annual Show, The New York Public Library, Old Cricket
  • 46th Annual National Exhibition, The Society of Illustrators, Old Cricket