Joan Sandin (1942-) Biography

Born 1942, in Watertown, WI; reEducation: University of Arizona, B.F.A., 1964.

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Books for Young Readers, Henry Holt and Company, 115 West 15th St., New York, NY 10011.

Illustrator, author, and translator of children's books. Exhibitions: Solo shows in Sweden and the United States featuring illustrations from The Long Way to a New Land. Art represented in the Kerlan Collection.

FST, Swedish Society of Illustrators.

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

The Long Way to a New Land, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1981.

The Long Way Westward, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1989.

Pioneer Bear: Based on a True Story, Random House (New York, NY), 1995.

Coyote School News, Holt (New York, NY), 2003.

ILLUSTRATOR

Carol Beach York, The Blue Umbrella, Watts (New York, NY), 1968.

Randolph Stow, Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1968.

Harold Felton, True Tall Tales of Stormalong: Sailor of the Seven Seas, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1968.

Edith Brecht, The Little Fox, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1968.

Eleanor Hull, A Trainful of Strangers, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1968.

Ellen Pugh, Tales from the Welsh Hills, Dodd (New York, NY), 1968.

Maia Wojciechowska, "Hey, What's Wrong with This One?", Harper (New York, NY), 1969.

Joan Lexau, Crocodile and Hen, Harper (New York, NY), 1969.

Jan M. Robinson, The December Dog, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1969.

Constantine Georgiou, Rani, Queen of the Jungle, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1970.

Joan Lexau, It All Began with a Drip, Drip, Drip, McCall/Dutton (New York, NY), 1970.

Jean Little, Look through My Window, Harper (New York, NY), 1970.

Joanna Cole, The Secret Box, Morrow (New York, NY), 1971.

Thomas P. Lewis, Hill of Fire, Harper (New York, NY), 1971.

Barbara Brenner, A Year in the Life of Rosie Bernard, Harper (New York, NY), 1971.

Ellen Pugh, More Tales from the Welsh Hills, Dodd (New York, NY), 1971.

Jean Little, From Anna, Harper (New York, NY), 1972.

Nathaniel Benchley, Small Wolf, Harper (New York, NY), 1972.

Edna Mitchell Preston, Ickle Bickle Robin, Watts (New York, NY), 1973.

Alison Morgan, A Boy Called Fish, Harper (New York, NY), 1973.

Joan L. Nixon, The Mysterious Red Tape Gang, Putnam (New York, NY), 1974.

Hans Eric Hellberg, Grandpa's Maria, translated by Patricia Crampton, Morrow (New York, NY), 1974.

Faith McNulty, Woodchuck, Harper (New York, NY), 1974.

Kathryn Ewing, A Private Matter, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York, NY), 1975.

Liesel Skorpen, Michael, Harper (New York, NY), 1975.

Liesel Skorpen, Bird, Harper (New York, NY), 1976.

Sandra Love, But What about Me?, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York, NY), 1976.

Alan Arkin, The Lemming Condition, Harper (New York, NY), 1976.

Thomas P. Lewis, Clipper Ship, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1978.

Clyde Robert Bulla, Daniel's Duck, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1979.

Nancy Jewell, Time for Uncle Joe, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1981.

Eleanor Coerr, The Bell Ringer and the Pirates, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1983.

Doreen Rappaport, Trouble at the Mines, Crowell (New York, NY), 1987.

Aileen Fisher, The House of a Mouse: Poems, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1988.

Aileen Fisher, Always Wondering: Some Favorite Poems of Aileen Fisher, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1991.

Nancy Smiler Levinson, Snowshoe Thompson, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992.

Elaine Marie Alphin, A Bear for Miguel, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.

Elizabeth Winthrop, As the Crow Flies, Clarion (New York, NY), 1998.

Illustrator of the serial story Army of Two, by Betty Miles, which ran in the Boston Herald, 2000.

TRANSLATOR

Gunilla Bergstrom, Who's Scaring Alfie Atkins?, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1987.

Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson, Linnea's Windowsill Garden, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1988.

Christina Bjork, Elliot's Extraordinary Cookbook, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1991.

Christina Bjork, The Other Alice: The Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland, R & S Books (New York, NY), 1993.

Christina Bjork, Big Bear's Book: By Himself, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1994.

Olof and Lena Landström, Boo and Baa in a Party Mood, R & S Books (New York, NY), 1996.

Olof and Lena Landström, Boo and Baa in Windy Weather, R & S Books (New York, NY), 1996.

Olof and Lena Landström, Boo and Baa at Sea, R&S Books (New York, NY), 1997.

Olof and Lena Landström, Boo and Baa on a Cleaning Spree, R & S Books (New York, NY), 1997.

Lena Arro, Good Night, Animals, illustrated by Catarina Kruusval, R & S Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Lena Landström, The Little Hippos' Adventure, R&S Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Lena Landström, The New Hippos, R & S Books (New York, NY), 2003.

Peter Cohen, Boris's Glasses, illustrated by Olaf Landström, R & S Books (New York, NY), 2003.

Jeanette Milde, Once Upon a Wedding, R & S Books (New York, NY), 2004.