His drawings appeared regularly in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Although tenure at the college did not follow, many more picture books did, as well as extensive work for national magazines and newspapers. After getting his MFA at the Yale Graduate School of Art, David taught art for many years on the college level, ran a film series and made satirical sketches for campus newspapers.Īpproaching tenure, he wrote and illustrated a picture book, “Eulalie and the Hopping Head”, which he took to New York, pounding the pavements and collecting rejections for a month in the dead of winter. He switched his major to Art and never looked back. At 21, after many years of writing plays, David took the advice of a friend who informed him that the doodles he made on the telephone pad were better than anything he had ever written. In school he became known as “the kid who could draw good,” but David never considered a career in art because it was so easy for him. It will be a great opportunity to meet him and Hallie Durand, if they are coming to a bookstore near you.ĭavid Small was born and raised in Detroit. He will be doing a book tour in September, so I’ll make sure I tell you all the ins and outs as soon as I know them. I noticed that illustrator David Small’s new book, Catch That Cookie was hitting the bookshelves on August 14th, so I contacted him to see if he would like to be featured on Illustrator Saturday.
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