Which books did Mary GrandPré illustrate?

We track 1 book illustrated by Mary GrandPré, in 1 edition, the earliest from 2000.

Mary GrandPré Illustrated First Editions

About Mary GrandPré

Mary GrandPré (born 13 February 1954) is an American illustrator best known for creating the artwork for the American editions of J.K. Rowling's seven Harry Potter novels, published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, between 1998 and 2007.

Born in South Dakota and raised in Bloomington, Minnesota, she studied fine art at Pomona College and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1981. She built her career in editorial and advertising work for publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal, and contributed landscape designs to DreamWorks' Antz and character development to Ice Age (2002). She was living in St Paul when she took on Harry Potter, beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) and finishing with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).

She works by hand in paint and pastel, producing softly lit, rounded forms that she has described as "soft geometry". Her picture books include Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat by Jennifer Armstrong (1993), The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland (1999), which won a Middle East Book Award in 2001, The Purple Snerd by Rozanne Lanczak Williams (Harcourt, 2000) and The Sea Chest by Toni Buzzeo (2002). The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock (2014), about the painter Kandinsky, earned her a Caldecott Honor in 2015.

For collectors

Her art appears in the first American printings of every Harry Potter novel, from Sorcerer's Stone (1998) to Deathly Hallows (2007), issued under the Arthur A. Levine Books imprint. She also drew the cover of The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008).

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