Take a Chance on Art
Diane Stanley
created this year’s raffle item for Charles Dickens - The Man Who Had Great
Expectations, a picture-book biography (Morrow Junior Books,
1993). The volume’s authors are Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema. This
exquisite full color gouache original, generously donated by the artist, is
approximately 13 inches high by 12 inches wide.
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The
drawing will be held in Dallas on Thursday, April 17th at General
Session II of
annual
conference. Tickets are only $5. You may purchase them at the
conference or print raffle tickets and mail them with a check to the TLA office
prior to March 31st to be included in the drawing.
The Gallery gets
its name from the first auction items, the complete set
of illustrations for Rosemary Wells' Itsy Bitsy Spider (Scholastic
Press/Bunny Reads Back series). Ms. Wells also donated the illustrations from
The
Bear Went Over the Mountain,
an off-drawing which
was raffled at
the 1999 conference, and a cover for a new release of Morris's Disappearing
Bag which was raffled online. Visit
Rosemary
Wells at her website.
TLA thanks the illustrators who have donated their original artworks
to build the Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund.
Raffle items and artists from previous years:
2007: by Lynn Rowe Reed for
Nouns and Verbs
Have a Field Day (Robin Pulver) |
2006: from
The Racecar Alphabet
by
Brian Floca
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2000: from
Wedding Bells for Rotten Ralph
by
Nicole Rubel
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2001:
Texas
by Adrienne Yorinks
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2002: West Texas by Roxie
Munro for her
Inside- Outside Book of Texas |
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2003: "crunchy black seeds and
all"
by Denise Fleming for Lunch
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2004: by
Will
Hillenbrand for Tom Birdseye's
Look Out, Jack! The Giant Is Back! |
2005: by Susan Jeffers for My Pony (Hyperion 2004)
Winner the drawing at
conference on April 7 was Elizabeth Baehner (McKinney). She took a $5 chance on art and took home a
masterpiece. What will she do with the painting? Why, hang it in
her library, of course!
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