Background
Stephen Gammell grew up in Iowa. His father, an art editor for a major magazine, brought home periodicals that gave Stephen early artistic inspiration.
(The superstitious people of an isolated coastal village o...)
The superstitious people of an isolated coastal village ostracize a young boy because of his love for the wild ospreys they believe are evil.
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(Returning to the summer home on Long Island Sound where h...)
Returning to the summer home on Long Island Sound where her father had died the year before, a teenage girl tries to come to terms with the meeting of death and the necessity of letting the dead go and continuing with one's own life.
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(A dolphin takes Demo back through time to ask the oracle ...)
A dolphin takes Demo back through time to ask the oracle at Delphi how he can help his father become a successful fisherman.
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(Eighteen poems celebrate the holiday of pumpkins, black c...)
Eighteen poems celebrate the holiday of pumpkins, black cats, witches, and ghosts.
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(Old Scudder, traveling through the West with his dog Pilg...)
Old Scudder, traveling through the West with his dog Pilgrim, can't tell where he is until he draws a map and names the places on it.
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Stephen Gammell grew up in Iowa. His father, an art editor for a major magazine, brought home periodicals that gave Stephen early artistic inspiration.
In 1982 he was a runner-up for Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker. He is self-taught. He started his career with freelance commercial work, but became interested in children"s book illustration. His first picture book was published by General Рractitioner Putnam"s Sons in 1973: A Nutty Business by Ida Chittum, featuring a "war" between squirrels and a farmer.
That same year he illustrated The Search (Harper & Row, 1973), a juvenile biography of Leo Tolstoy by Sara Newton Carroll.
Since then, he has illustrated nearly sixty titles. Gammell is particularly well known for the surreal, unsettling illustrations he provided for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a series of horror short stories by Alvin Schwartz that is still an adolescent favorite.
He works daily in his studio, located over a restaurant.
(Returning to the summer home on Long Island Sound where h...)
(The superstitious people of an isolated coastal village o...)
(Old Scudder, traveling through the West with his dog Pilg...)
(A dolphin takes Demo back through time to ask the oracle ...)
(Eighteen poems celebrate the holiday of pumpkins, black c...)
(The origins, habits, myths, legends, and famous case hist...)
