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Elicia Castaldi
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Award-Winning Illustrator and author Elicia Castaldi was born in Providence, Rhode Island and has loved making art since she can remember. After graduating RISD she moved to (the best place on earth) New York City, where she plans to forever remain. Elicia's studio is a chaotic jubilee reflecting her sense of humor and zest for life. Her books include the ever-loved Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf, by renowned author Jennifer L. Holm. Slated for 2011 is Elicia's exciting new picture book on healthy foods. This will be her first published
work as an author. Her artwork has been praised with a "quirky profoundness", and she never goes a day without being inspired.
Rhode Island School of Design
BFA Illustration, 2001
ALA Notable Book
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Susie Wilde Award Winner
NYPL 100 Books For Reading and Sharing
Booksense Children's Pick
NAPPA Gold Award Winner
2008-2009 Texas Lonestar List
Written by, Jennifer L.Holm / Illustration & Design by, Elicia Castaldi © 2007 Atheneum
Publishers Weekly ~ Starred Review
Two-time Newbery Honor author Holm (Our Only May Amelia) and Castaldi (Miss Polly Has a Dolly) gather an eclectic assemblage of "stuff" to chronicle the intermittently bumpy year of a smart, sassy seventh grader. As the months pass, Ginny tackles an impressive to-do list. Among the entries: "Get a dad" (she does, when her widowed mother remarries); "Get the role of the Sugarplum Fairy" (she doesn't; worse, her former best friend-who never returned the sweater she borrowed-does); and "Convince mom to let me go see Grampa Joe over Easter break" (he lives in Florida). Ginny also writes poems and IMs friends, and her older brother, Henry, draws a series of comics. The collages that make up the pages here look perky: appealing mixes of objects like bottle-cap linings and candy wrappers, or spreads that combine hair dye boxes, drugstore receipts, salon bills for "color reversal" and a bank check to tell a story. But the inviting format disguises a darker side. Ginny worries, with cause, about Henry, who drinks and drives; resents her new stepfather's ways; and her normally excellent grades take an abrupt nosedive. The everyday tensions of seventh grade show up, too, via the ex-best friend and a pesky little brother. The punchy visuals and the sharp, funny details reel in the audience and don't let go. Ages 8-12. (July)
Written by, Pamela Duncan Edwards / Illustrated by, Elicia Castaldi © 2003 Penguin Putnam
Children have been chanting "Miss Polly Had a Dolly" for centuries. But the original rhyme only had eight lines. Now for the first time, Pamela Duncan Edwards expands on the original to answer the question of what happens next (they all go out for ice cream when Dolly is feeling better)
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