Mary Jane Begin, Illustrator
Bethany RobertsA Mouse Told His Mother
8vo, unbound. Collector's Copy. Fine. Advance copy, unbound signature laid into projected dj. First. Delightful bedtime story with opulent illustrations by Begin.Inventory # 7686 $90.00
Bethany RobertsA Mouse Told His Mother
8vo, unbound. Collector's Copy. Fine. Advance copy, unbound signature laid into projected dj. First. Delightful bedtime story with opulent illustrations by Begin.Inventory # 7686 $90.00
Mary Jane Begin, Illustrator
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in The Willows
New York Sea Star Press 2002. Illustrated and signed by Mary Jane Begin 4to - over 93&Mac218;4" - 12" tall.. Glazed color pictorial boards/covers with blue fields/background & white lettering, maroon endpapers, maroon silk ribbon marker, color pictorial dust-jacket Afterword by Peter Glassman. Fine/Fine Inventory# 7133 Price $120
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in The Willows
New York Sea Star Press 2002. Illustrated and signed by Mary Jane Begin 4to - over 93&Mac218;4" - 12" tall.. Glazed color pictorial boards/covers with blue fields/background & white lettering, maroon endpapers, maroon silk ribbon marker, color pictorial dust-jacket Afterword by Peter Glassman. Fine/Fine Inventory# 7133 Price $120
Maryjane Begin, Illustrator
Wolkstein, Diane; author
Little Mouse's Painting
New York, NY, Seastar Books, A division of North South Books. 1992. 4to (10X10 in) Illustrated Boards. Signed with a small illustration by the illustrator. Pages unnumbered. Stunning illustartions by Maryjane Begin, including one shown at the Bologna Exposition of Children's Illustrators. Fine in Fine in Broadart ISBN: 0688076092 . Bookseller Inventory # 7688 Price: US$ 120.00
Maryjane Begin, Illustrator
Pryor, Bnnie
The Porcupine Mouse
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1988. First edition. Oblong Picture book, pictorial boards replicated on jacket. More of Maryjane Begin's wonderful creatures throughout. Book unmarred now protected in a brodart. Near Fine/ very good Inventory # 7376 Price $90.00
Pryor, Bnnie
The Porcupine Mouse
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1988. First edition. Oblong Picture book, pictorial boards replicated on jacket. More of Maryjane Begin's wonderful creatures throughout. Book unmarred now protected in a brodart. Near Fine/ very good Inventory # 7376 Price $90.00
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Mary Jane Begin's award-winning children's picture book portfolio includes A Mouse Told His Mother, Little Mouse's Painting, Before I Go To Sleep, The Porcupine Mouse, Jeremy's First Haircut and The Wind in the Willows. She is currently working on The Sorcerer's Apprentice due for publication in Fall 2005.
She has had one woman shows at Books of Wonder Gallery in New York and Beverly Hills as well as RisdWorks at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She has also exhibited at the RISD Faculty Biennial (RI), Society of Illustrators (NY), The DeCordova Museum (MA), Elizabeth Stone Gallery (MI) and Every Picture Tells a Story ((CA) as well as other fine galleries nationwide.
Her work has been featured in Communication Arts magazine and the Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration. She is the recipient of many awards, including The Steven Donahos Award and multiple Certificates of Merit from the Society of Illustrators, multiple Awards of Excellence from Communications Arts, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the Critici Erba Prize at the Bologna Book Fair, Italy, and First Place, Juvenile Trade, at the New York Book Show, New York and won the Ruth W. Finley Award from the Providence Art Club this month.
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Her advertising and merchandising work includes imagery for greeting cards, posters, prints, games, mugs, gifts, textbooks, magazines, and advertisements for such clients as Hasbro, Milton Bradley, Celestial Seasonings, Popshots, See's Candies, Franklin Mint, and Disney.
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She has been a panelist and participant in numerous conferences and workshops, including the Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books and Authors, the National Family Literacy Conference, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference, and the NEA Teacher's Conference.
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Her illustrating career began as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she now teaches as a member of the faculty in the Illustration Department. She has lectured at elementary schools throughout the United States, and has also provided pro bono and charity work for the Rhode Island Library Association, Save the Bay, Horizons Initiative,? Gateway Healthcare and Hasbro Children's Hospital.
When not teaching or painting, she can be found reading bedtime stories to her husband and two children in Barrington, RI.? [This information copied from M.J. Begin's website which you may visit at http://www.maryjanebegin.com]
She has had one woman shows at Books of Wonder Gallery in New York and Beverly Hills as well as RisdWorks at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She has also exhibited at the RISD Faculty Biennial (RI), Society of Illustrators (NY), The DeCordova Museum (MA), Elizabeth Stone Gallery (MI) and Every Picture Tells a Story ((CA) as well as other fine galleries nationwide.
Her work has been featured in Communication Arts magazine and the Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration. She is the recipient of many awards, including The Steven Donahos Award and multiple Certificates of Merit from the Society of Illustrators, multiple Awards of Excellence from Communications Arts, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the Critici Erba Prize at the Bologna Book Fair, Italy, and First Place, Juvenile Trade, at the New York Book Show, New York and won the Ruth W. Finley Award from the Providence Art Club this month.
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Her advertising and merchandising work includes imagery for greeting cards, posters, prints, games, mugs, gifts, textbooks, magazines, and advertisements for such clients as Hasbro, Milton Bradley, Celestial Seasonings, Popshots, See's Candies, Franklin Mint, and Disney.
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She has been a panelist and participant in numerous conferences and workshops, including the Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books and Authors, the National Family Literacy Conference, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference, and the NEA Teacher's Conference.
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Her illustrating career began as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she now teaches as a member of the faculty in the Illustration Department. She has lectured at elementary schools throughout the United States, and has also provided pro bono and charity work for the Rhode Island Library Association, Save the Bay, Horizons Initiative,? Gateway Healthcare and Hasbro Children's Hospital.
When not teaching or painting, she can be found reading bedtime stories to her husband and two children in Barrington, RI.? [This information copied from M.J. Begin's website which you may visit at http://www.maryjanebegin.com]
Maryjane Begin, Illustrator
Pryor, Bnnie
The Porcupine Mouse
As above except the 2002 re-issue with text changes. This edition published by North South Books. As new. Imventory # 7693 Price $35.00
Pryor, Bnnie
The Porcupine Mouse
As above except the 2002 re-issue with text changes. This edition published by North South Books. As new. Imventory # 7693 Price $35.00
Maryjane Begin, Illustrator
Before I go To Sleep
Thomas Hood
Fairfield, N.J. 1999: Morrow Junior Books. 7.5 X 9.5 inch picture book with glossy cover and no DJ, as issued. Chock full of full page illustrations by the enormously talented Begin.
Before I go To Sleep
Thomas Hood
Fairfield, N.J. 1999: Morrow Junior Books. 7.5 X 9.5 inch picture book with glossy cover and no DJ, as issued. Chock full of full page illustrations by the enormously talented Begin.
COPY 1: Inventory # 7380 Price $35.00
Maryjane Begin, Illustrator
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2005. Hardcover. New book. Hardcover edition.32 pages. Length: 12 inches, Width 9 Height inches 0.5 Inches. In Begin's version the apprentice is a girl! Inventory # 7703 Price $34.00
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2005. Hardcover. New book. Hardcover edition.32 pages. Length: 12 inches, Width 9 Height inches 0.5 Inches. In Begin's version the apprentice is a girl! Inventory # 7703 Price $34.00
Mary Jane Begin, Illustrator
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in The Willows
As above but not signed. Inventory# 7704 Price $25.00
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in The Willows
As above but not signed. Inventory# 7704 Price $25.00
Mary Ann Begin, Illustrator
R is For Rhode Island Red
Sleeping Bear Press, 2005. Hardback. New. 40 pages. Oblong with DJ replicating pictorial board covers. An alphabet journey through Rhode Island Readers learn how Rhode Island native Samuel Slater started the American Industrial Revolution, and what a quahog is. A family project. The author is Mary Jane’s husband, Mark R. Inventory # 7708 Price $40.00
COPY 2: First Edition 1990. New York: Putnams. Signed by the illustrator on the free endpaper, in gold ink and with a drawing. Fine in Fine clipped dustwrapper. Inventory# 7713. Price $90.00
Girard, Linda Walvoord; Girard, Linda; Mary Jane Begin, Illustrator
Jeremy's First Haircut
Morton Grove, Illinois, U.S.A.: Albert Whitman & Co, 1986. Small square 4to 8 X 9 in. Pages un-numbered. Beautiful illustrations by Mary Jane Begin. FINE. No jacket, as issued. Not Ex-library. As New. Inventory # 7363 Price $40.00
Jeremy's First Haircut
Morton Grove, Illinois, U.S.A.: Albert Whitman & Co, 1986. Small square 4to 8 X 9 in. Pages un-numbered. Beautiful illustrations by Mary Jane Begin. FINE. No jacket, as issued. Not Ex-library. As New. Inventory # 7363 Price $40.00