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Patricia Marie Cummings is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Pat Cummings

Pat Cummings is a 1-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author

Biography of Pat Cummings

Pat Cummings was born in Chicago but grew up traveling with her military family all over the world. Cummings is the creator of over 30 books for children, including titles that have won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Horn Book-Boston Globe Award and the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. As one of the illustrators for Our Children Can Soar (Bloomsbury 2009) she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Children.

After graduation from Pratt, Pat freelanced for editorial and advertising clients before focusing exclusively on children’s books. She worked as a producer and writer for Gullah Gullah Island, a Nickelodeon children’s show and cohosted Cover to Cover, a cable TV talk show about children’s books and the people who create them.

Pat serves as National Secretary of The Authors Guild and sits on the Boards of The Authors Guild Foundation, The Authors League Fund, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (

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Creator of more than 40 books for children; awards include the Coretta Scott King Award, the Horn Book-Boston Globe Award, the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work as one of the illustrators for Our Children Can Soar (Bloomsbury, 2009); worked as a producer and writer for Gullah Gullah Island, a Nickelodeon children’s show; cohosted Cover to Cover, a cable TV talk show about children’s books creators on BCAT, a Time Warner channel; serves as a Council Member of the Authors Guild; the Authors Guild Foundation, the Authors League Fund, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and is a member of the Writers Guild; serves as Chair for the Society of Illustrators’ Founders Award for The Original Art Show; teaches children’s book illustration at Pratt and Parsons The New School for Design; well-published former students of the class include David Ezra Stein, Galia Bernstein, Hiroe Nakata, Amber Alvarez and Julian Hector.

Education

B.A., Pratt Institute; Assistant Professor, Parsons The New School f

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Pat Cummings (illustrator)

American writer and illustrator (born 1950)

Pat Cummings
Born	(1950-11-09) November 9, 1950 (age 74) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Education	Pratt Institute
Known for	Children's books illustrator
Awards	NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Coretta Scott King Award (1984) Horn Book-Boston Globe Award

Patricia Marie Cummings (born November 9, 1950) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Early life

Cummings' father was in the Army, and her family lived in different locations from Europe to Asia when she was growing up. She remembered "My brother and sisters and I were always the 'new kids', but I found that art helped me to get to know my classmates."^[1] Growing up, her parents would read them stories about fairytales, which fueled her imagination as she explored castles on the Rhine River and villages in Okinawa.^[1]

She attended Pratt Institute in New York City.^[2] After graduation, Cummings initially freelanced for editorial and adve