k dyble thompson illustration

Watercolor and Pencil

2011-02-24T17:55:00.002-06:00

Mahout Boy
first published in Cricket Magazine November 1996

Valentine 2011
Chomolungma
first published in Cricket Magazine June 1999

The Boy Who Was Afraid of Winter
first published in Ladybug Magazine Nov 2003

Because Brian Hugged His Mother by David Rice, Dawn Publications

2011

2011-01-11T15:43:00.002-06:00

La famosa pioggia di Piombino

2010-03-05T13:49:00.004-06:00

scary masks

2009-09-24T10:36:00.003-05:00

Bat gets ready...

2007-09-23T13:06:00.000-05:00

A Night of Questions

2007-09-23T10:41:00.000-05:00

kdyblethompson@gmail.com

Turkish Van - My Netty

2006-09-21T18:52:00.000-05:00

Netty can be yours, this image is available on cards and mugs at www.cafepress.com/kdtshop
Copyright 2004 by K Dyble Thompson, first published in Cricket Magazine April 2004

Cartwheel to the Moon

2006-05-10T18:00:00.000-05:00

Caldecott Nomination 2003

Celebrated Wisconsin artist Kitty Dyble Thompson nominated by Cricket Books for her illustrations in Cartwheel to the Moon: My Sicilian Childhood, written by Emanuel di Pasquale. Kitty Dyble Thompson is the acclaimed illustrator of Emanuel di Pasquale’s book of poetry, Cartwheel to the Moon: My Sicilian Childhood ( ISBN 0-8126-2679-6; Cricket Books 2003).

Publishers Weekly describes her Cartwheel art as pen-and-ink drawings that “bring a gentle, shimmering light to the wistful verse,”

The School Library Journal declares her softly washed blue-and-white watercolor images to be “like picture postcards, amplifying the scenic words as they trace the seasons in Sicily.”

Hazel Rochman, writing for Booklist, states that “Immigrant kids will recognize parents' and grandparents' stories of a faraway home, but there are also universals in the daily adventures on the island through the seasons; the special excursion and religious celebrations; and the achingly physical memories of the father who died when the boy was very young. The plain words capture what the boy sees, and Thompson's black-and-white illustrations show the sweep of the ocean as well as close-ups of the town and the child's playful enduring bond with his mother. From the exuberance of the title poem to the sorrow of childhood loss, there's much here to read aloud and to encourage children to write about themselves.”

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thompson traveled to Ragusa, Sicily, to research the illustrations for Cartwheel to the Moon. She has also illustrated stories in children’s literary magazines as well as several books, including My Name is Maria Isabel, by Alma Flor Ada.

Bologna 2005

2006-04-23T17:08:00.000-05:00

Illustrating Andersen
American artist Kathryn Dyble Thompson has published numerous books over the last ten years with both national publishing houses such as Atheneum and others closer to her home of Milwaukee, such as Gareth Stevens and Cricket Books. In this illustration for Andersen’s Fir Tree, she abandons her usual colorful palette of brilliant watercolors and uses only sepia ink, applied with both brush and pen. Dark sepia and brilliant white are an appropriate color palette for this scene in the winter forest, in which even the high-jumping hare can barely clear the top of the growing young fir tree. Later, when its third winter arrived, “the tree had grown so tall that the hare was obliged to run round it.” Though perhaps perplexing as a stand-alone image, Thompson’s picture works wonderfully as an illustration, showing the contrast and the distance between the little fir tree and the other far grander trees of the forest. The image (as illustration) is an important one, for the grown fir tree, later old and cast off, will remember longingly when it was small and played with the hare - and had not a worry in the world. “’Rejoice in thy youth,’ said the sunbeam. ’Rejoice in thy fresh growth and the young life that is in thee.’”

JEFFREY GARRETT, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA
The Emperor’s New Illustrations, exhibition catalogue
2005 Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

Published Work

2006-02-20T21:08:00.000-06:00

Chomolungma Cricket Magazine 1999

Chomlungma Cricket Magazine 1999

Catterpillar-Sitting Cricket Magazine 1999

Mahout Boy Cricket Magazine, 1996

Contact: kdyblethompson@gmail.com

Published Work

2006-02-06T18:05:00.000-06:00

Cartwheel to the Moon, by Emanuel di Pasquale, Cricket Books 2003 - watercolor

CAT! by Virginia Kroll, Dawn Publications, 1999 - oil on paper

Because Brian Hugged His Mother, by David Rice, DAWN Publications, 1999 - watercolor

Noche de Paz, by Jonathan London, Cricket Magazine, April 1995 - watercolor