A to Zaao - Playing With History At the American Swedish Institute

Award-winning artist, illustrator, and author Tara Sweeney received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to co-illustrate and author A to Zåдц with her son, Nate Christopherson. She is author of Close to Home: A Minnesota Year in Sketches, a collection of illustrated creative nonfiction. She is professor emeritus at Augsburg University, where she taught drawing and painting for twenty-five years.

Nate Christopherson is a special education teacher and freelance illustrator. He created art for Amy Leach’s Things That Are and a special edition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to illustrate The Island, an award-winning limited-edition collaborative artist book. Sweeney and Christopherson both live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

About the author

Award-winning artist, illustrator, and author Tara Sweeney received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to co-illustrate and author A to Zåдц with her son, Nate Christopherson. She is author of Close to Home: A Minnesota Year in Sketches, a collection of illustrated creative nonfiction. She is professor emeritus at Augsburg University, where she taught drawing and painting for twenty-five years.

Nate Christopherson is a special education teacher and freelance illustrator. He created art for Amy Leach’s Things That Are and a special edition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to illustrate The Island, an award-winning limited-edition collaborative artist book. Sweeney and Christopherson both live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Product details

• Authors: Nate Christopherson, Nate Sweeney Christopherson, Nate/ Sweeney Christopherson, Tara Sweeney
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781517907884
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0788-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Play, learning > Languages; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Concepts / Alphabet, Kinder/Jugendliche: Sachbuch: Länder, Kulturen und nationale Identität, Schule und Lernen: Moderne (Nicht-Mutter-) Sprachen, Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Nonfiction, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Foreign Language Study / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / General