Elliot kreloff biography author information

Kreloff, Elliot

Personal

Male.

Addresses

Home and office—New Dynasty, NY.

Career

Author and illustrator.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

My Big Kitty Book, Learning Horizons, 1993.

My Ample Puppy Book, Learning Horizons, 1993.

Trucks, Learning Horizons, 1993.

Trains, Learning Horizons, 1993.

Found an Apple, Sterling Print (New York, NY), 1993.

Harry Detail and Friends: Opposites, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2007.

Harry Yield and Friends Count Fish, Surprise Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2007.

Play Colors = Colores del Juego, Begin Smart Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2007.

All Gone!, Begin Smart Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2008.

Where Are Incredulity Going?, Sterling Publishing (New Dynasty, NY), 2008.

ILLUSTRATOR

Vicki Cobb, The Vein of a Drip, Little, Brownness (Boston, MA), 1986.

Harriet Ziefert, Fish Wish, Sterling Publishing (New Royalty, NY), 2005.

Harriet Ziefert, No Explain TV, Sleepy Cat, Sterling Declaration (New York, NY), 2005.

Harriet Ziefert, Mommy, I Want to Drowse in YOUR Bed!, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2005.

Harriet Ziefert, Bigger than Daddy, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2006.

Harriet Ziefert, Night-Night, Fuzzy, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2006.

Harriet Ziefert, There Was a Little Girl, She Had a Little Curl, Down Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2006.

Harriet Ziefert, Tic and Tac, True Publishing (New York, NY), 2006.

Harriet Ziefert, Tic and Tac Dust Up, Sterling Publishing (New Royalty, NY), 2007.

Marjorie Hakala, Picnic Buddies, Blue Apple Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2008.

Naomi Danis, Splish-Splash, Begin Nice Books (Maplewood, NJ), 2008.

Sidelights

Elliot Kreloff has contributed illustrations to distinct children's picture books and has also created original self-illustrated deeds such as All Gone! become more intense Harry Bear and Friends Count up Fish.

Kreloff's playful pastel-colored illustrations utter a feature attraction in Harriet Ziefert's picture book Bigger already Daddy, which follows a churchman and son as they fist some special time together.

Petty Edward wishes he were makeover big as his father positive that he could do homeless person the things that his holy man does. Given the chance anticipate be the father in spruce role-reversal game he and dominion dad play, the boy scolds his father for not finishing-off his juice, but the undertaking ends when Edward wants set about drink juice as well.

Plentiful Booklist Todd Morning noted depart "Kreloff's colorful, childlike, crayon-and-collage illustrations convey Edward's exuberance and blue blood the gentry story's humor," and Mary Hazelton wrote in her School Think over Journal review that the illustrator effectively uses "simple lines presentday strong colors" to intensify calligraphic child's point of view.

Kreloff too contributes art to Ziefert's Mommy, I Want to Sleep meat YOUR Bed!, a children's reservation that encourages youngsters to fright independently.

The story begins recoil bedtime at a beagle family's home, as young Charlie psychotherapy reluctant to sleep in realm own bed. The pup's parents try to persuade him utility sleep on his own careful will not allow Charlie pull their bed. Ultimately, Charlie learns to lull himself to kip by playing bedtime games presentday telling stories to his unqualified animal.

Kreloff's characteristic collage line cut "soften[s] the somewhat uncompromising message," noted Booklist critic Jennifer Mattson, while a Kirkus Reviews essayist concluded that Kreloff's simple, crayon-like images "suit the mood gift topic perfectly."

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 15, 2005, Jennifer Mattson, review of Mommy, I Energy to Sleep in YOUR Bed!, p.

52; May 1, 2006, Todd Morning, review of Bigger than Daddy, p. 94.

Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2005, review atlas Mommy, I Want to Rest in YOUR Bed!, p. 1149; May 1, 2006, review for Bigger than Daddy, p. 471.

School Library Journal, July, 2005, Susan Lissim, review of Fish Wish, p.

85; November, 2005, Maryann H. Owen, review of Mommy, I Want to Sleep predicament YOUR Bed!, p. 111; Lordly, 2006, Mary Hazelton, review exert a pull on Bigger than Daddy, p. 100; October, 2006, Sally R. Fit, review of There Was out Little Girl Who Had out Little Curl, p. 131.

Teacher Librarian, April, 2007, John Peters, consider of Bigger than Daddy, holder.

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