Doug Cushman


Doug Cushman is an artist who has worked as a cartoonist and a book illustrator. He is also the author of a series of children's books.

Life and career

Doug Cushman was born in Springfield, Ohio, and moved to Connecticut with his family when he was 13 years old. While in high school he created comic books lampooning his teachers, selling them to his classmates for a nickel a piece. Cushman has illustrated and written over 120 books for children over his career since 1978. In his free time, Cushman enjoys painting, playing guitar, and cooking along with traveling the world. He spends most of his time in Paris, France, Europe, and the US.

Awards and honors

Awards

  • He received the National Cartoonist Society Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1996
  • He was nominated the National Cartoonist Society Magazine and Book Illustration Award in 2000.

    Honors

  • Reuben Award for Book Illustration from the Nationalist Cartoonists Society
  • New York Times Children's Books Best Sellers
  • New York Public Library's Best 100 Books of 2000
  • 2009 California Young Readers medal

    Selected works

Self-illustrated

''Mouse and Mole''

  • Mouse and Mole
  • Mouse and Mole and the Year-Round Garden
  • Mouse and Mole and the Christmas Walk
  • ''Mouse and Mole and the All-Weather Train Ride''

    ''Aunt Eater''

  • Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
  • Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation
  • Aunt Eater's Mystery Christmas
  • ''Aunt Eater's Mystery Halloween''

    Other books

  • Giants
  • Inspector Hopper
  • ''Inspector Hopper's Mystery Year''

    By other writers

''Bicycle Bear''

With Jack Long
  • The Secret of the Nile
  • The Sunken Treasure
  • ''The Vanishing Professor''
    Other works
  • Not Counting Monsters
  • Haunted Houses on Halloween
  • Chatty Chipmunk's Nutty Day
  • Aunt Morbella and the Screaming Skulls
  • Frogs
  • Little Raccoon
  • ABC: Alphabet Rhymes
  • ¡Marimba!: Animales from A to Z
  • Birthday at the Panda Palace
  • ''Ella, Of Course!''