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Claudia McGehee likes to dig. She digs in gardens. She digs in library stacks. She digs through the internet. She even digs while making illustrations, where scratchings from an X-acto blade create wood-cut like images. All this digging reveals stories, often inspired from history and nature. Some days she writes about pictures. Some days she draws about words. Claudia is the author/illustrator of three non-fiction picture books: A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet, A Woodland Counting Book, and Where Do Birds Live?, all from University of Iowa Press. She also illustrated Welcome, Child of God, a board book on baptism, published by Augsburg Fortress and first place 2011 Midwest Book Award winner. Her distinctive scratchboard style can also be found nationally in museum exhibits, packaging, greeting cards, and magazines. Claudia is a native of Washington state. She earned degrees in archaeology (she likes to dig, remember?) and graphic design. She also studied natural history at Oxford University in England. She lives in Iowa City, sharing a house on a hill with her husband and daughter and two studio cats. |
| Welcome, Child of God written by Anne Ylvisaker illustrated by Claudia McGehee Augsburg Fortress, 2011 ISBN 978-1-4514-0133-2 The joy and meaning of baptism expressed in our natural world, and with family and community, is explored through lush images and lyrical text. Awards and Recognition |
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| Where Do Birds Live? written and illustrated by Claudia McGehee University of Iowa Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1-58729-919-3 Where ever we live, birds live, too. In this picture book, Where Do Birds Live?, fourteen representative habitats capture bird life common to North America. Double- spreads illustrate a highlighted bird at home in its environment, describing its nesting, feeding and soaring life ways. Ideas for preserving and protecting each habitat are also shared. |
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| A Woodland Counting Book written and illustrated by Claudia McGehee University of Iowa Press, 2006 ISBN 978-0-87745-989-7 A Woodland Counting Book reveals the beauty of a living woodland community, one creature or plant at a time. From a single towering white oak to 50 busy carpenter ants, this picture book "walks" a reader page by page down a woodland path of discovery. Back material illuminates in detail each profiled species. Awards and Recognition |
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| A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet written and illustrated by Claudia McGehee, University of Iowa Press, 2004 ISBN 978-0-87745-897-5 Exploring a once abundant natural habitat, A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet illuminates in vibrant detail the flora and fauna native to these grasslands. Back material adds further focus on each plant and animal featured. Awards and Recognition |
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