Marjorie Priceman is the award winning author and illustrator of many picture books. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, she made her debut in 1989 with Friend or Frog.

Marjorie's illustrations enliven many fantastic stories through her use of bright watercolors and free flowing lines. In 1995, she won the Caldecott Honor for Zin! Zin! A Violin. The School Library Journal reviewed her work as "an inspired assortment of characters, who pose, prance, and float across the page and stage… the rich, swirling background colors change with each double-page spread.

Using softer lines and more muted hues than usual, Marjorie illustrated Katie Couric's debut novel The Brand New Kid in 2000. In this story, "the artist captures a full gamut of emotion, particularly in the crabby faces of taunting classmates and a beaming portrait of Lazlo at the moment he makes his first real friend." (From the School Library Journal, 2000).

After a sabbatical, Marjorie is right back to work on some new stories. Her next book, due out in the spring of 2004 is Katie Couric's second book entitled The Blue Ribbon Day.

 

Book List
	How to Make An Apple Pie 1994		My Nine Lives by Clio, 1998
	Emeline at The Circus 1999		For Laughing Out Loud by Jack Prelutsky, 1991
	Zin!Zin!Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss 1995 A Caldecott Honor Book		When Zaydeh Danced on Eldgridge Street by Elsa Okon Rael 1997
	Dancin' in the Kitchen by Frank Christian and Wendy Gelsanliter, 1998		Serefina Under the Circumstances by Phyllis Theroux, 1999
	The Brand New Kid by Katie Couric, 2000		Froggie Went A-Courting by Marjorie Priceman, 2000
	Princess Picky by Marjorie Priceman, 2003