Background
Sunny B. Warner was born on October 10, 1931 in New York City, New York, United States to David Popouciado, a photographer, and Valedith (Bertrand) Popouciado, a stylist.
Sunny graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1953.
(Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon ...)
Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon a piece of rope. Determined to find out just where the rope leads, she and her little black cat follow the line of the rope. They zig and zag and shimmy-shammy from one dance step to the next, from one adventure to another. Charming illustrations and jaunty rhyming text will have readers and listeners singing and tapping their feet as this special line takes Madison and her cat on a wild ramble and eventually safely back to where they ought to be! Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon a piece of rope. Determined to find out just where the rope leads, she and her little black cat follow the line of the rope. They zig and zag and shimmy-shammy from one dance step to the next, from one adventure to another. Charming illustrations and jaunty rhyming text will have readers and listeners singing and tapping their feet as this special line takes Madison and her cat on a wild ramble and eventually safely back to where they ought to be!
https://www.amazon.com/Madison-Finds-Line-Sunny-Warner/dp/0395885086/?tag=2022091-20
(This is the 50th anniversary of "Tobias and his Big Red S...)
This is the 50th anniversary of "Tobias and his Big Red Satchel", published by Alfred Knopf and my first children's book, . Tobias has a satchel filled with the 'terribly usable' things he must have at hand every day as he rescues animals and people from their various predicaments. His mother is worried because it is so heavy, but, as events prove, 'He can't do without any one of the things that he carries about.' Tobias has been been selling ever since publication, even after it went out of print. It has been translated into German, Danish, Swedish, and Africaans, somehow always staying in rhyme. The illustrations are black and white ink drawings with red for the all-important satchel.
https://www.amazon.com/Tobias-his-Big-Red-Satchel/dp/1466460482/?tag=2022091-20
Sunny B. Warner was born on October 10, 1931 in New York City, New York, United States to David Popouciado, a photographer, and Valedith (Bertrand) Popouciado, a stylist.
Sunny graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1953. She also attended American School in Paris, Atelier 17, Paris, and State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Sunny had illustrated several children's books. It was inspired by her son's interest in tools and ‘fixing' things, and also by a certain scene in a horrible ongoing story her husband’s father used to tell his children at bedtime about a favorite character they had made up and named Little Picknose. In her story, the hero's name was Tobias, and the name of the book was Tobias and His Big Red Satchel. It did very well and has been translated into German, Swedish, Danish, and Afrikaans.
It wasn't until the arrival of her first grandchild, that she was inspired to write another children's book. She wrote and illustrated Madison Finds a Line and then finished a manuscript called The Magic Sewing Machine. In 1994 Sunny moved to Tucson, Arizona.
Warner’s childhood love for good stories comes to fruition with her self-illustrated children's book, The Magic Sewing Machine. Left motherless, her young main characters, Olya and Sacha, are sent to live in a dark, gruesome orphanage under the harsh discipline of Miss Schnaap. Amid these grim circumstances comes relief from a magic sewing machine given to them by their dying mother. Warner snatches the children out of the grips of hard times and does so with surprising twists of story and illustrations that move characters and readers out of the darkness and into the light.
(This is the 50th anniversary of "Tobias and his Big Red S...)
(Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon ...)
Quotes from others about the person
Commenting on the author’s artwork, a critic for Kirkus Reviews described the illustrations as “effectively composed to convey somber moods, humorous moments, and scenes of lasting harmony.” and regarding story, the critic noted that “the dastardly adults and resourceful heroes combine for dramatic storytelling."
Writing for Booklist, Susan Dove Lempke concluded that Warner's story and illustrations have “just enough evil to create pleasurable shivers and a highly satisfactory conclusion for all.”
Sunny has three children: Geoffrey B. Cook, Michael Warner and Jennifer Warner.