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The Collaborative Summer Library Program has announced the
illustrator for the 2014 program, "Spark a Reaction": Tim O'Brien!<br>
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O'Brien is best known in YA literary circles for designing book
cover images for the <i>Hunger Games</i> trilogy, including the
mockingjay brooch that was used to promote the film. His striking
work has been seen on covers for Walter Dean Myers' <i>Slam</i>,
Thomas Hardy's <i>The Mayor of Casterbridge</i>, James Fenimore
Cooper's <i>The Last of the Mohicans</i>, and Shakespeare's <i>Othello</i>.
His extraordinary portraits have also graced stamps commemorating
Judy Garland and Hattie Smith, and magazine covers from <i>Entertainment
Weekly</i> and <i>Harper's </i>to <i>Rolling Stone</i> and <i>Time</i>.
According to his profile as an adjunct professor with the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia, he has over a dozen paintings in the
collection of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and is a
winner of the prestigious Hamilton King Award<a
href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Hamilton-King/Past-Honorees/2009---Tim-O-Brien.aspx"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> from the Society of
Illustrators (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.uarts.edu/users/tobrien">http://www.uarts.edu/users/tobrien</a>).<br>
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You can see more about O'Brien and his work on his website at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.obrienillustration.com/">http://www.obrienillustration.com/</a>.<br>
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I'm delighted to see this intriguing talent coming to Summer Reading
for us. I can't wait to see what reactions his work will spark in
2014!<br>
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Yours,<br>
Abbie Anderson<br>
OYAN CSLP Liaison<br>
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Abbie Anderson
Assistant Director
North Bend Public Library
541.756.1073
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.northbendlibrary.org">www.northbendlibrary.org</a></pre>
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