Jackie Urbanovic


Jackie Urbanovic is an American New York Times best-selling author and illustrator. The majority of her work consists of children's picture books, including her self-authored Max the Duck series. She regularly speaks at libraries and educational events for children. She was a member of the Children's Book Guild. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work.

Career

Urbanovic received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her career started in graphic design and cartoons, then realizing she would prefer to illustrate children's literature. She studied writing under the mentorship of Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to Highlights, received her first trade illustration job on Spaghetti Eddie. Before she started her children's literature career, she contributed to several anthologies and comics series regarding LGBT themes and issues in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the fictional Molesworth Institute.

Published works

Books

Self-authored and illustrated

  • Do Your Ears Hang Low?. Scholastic, 2005.
  • Duck at the Door. HarperCollins, 2007. Duck Soup. HarperCollins, 2008. Duck and Cover. HarperCollins, 2009. Sitting Duck. HarperCollins, 2010. Ducks in a Row. HarperCollins, 2011. Happy Go Ducky. HarperCollins, 2012. Prince of a Frog. Orchard Books, 2015. Splatypus. Two Lions, 2017.

Illustrated

Do the Hokey Pokey. Cricket Books, 2001. Horace the Horrible. Marshall Cavendish Corp, 2003. The Ten Best Things About My Dad. Cartwheel, 2004. Bully Blockers Club. Albert Whitman & Company, 2004. Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip. Albert Whitman & Company, 2005. Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal. Magination Press, 2005. Glamsters. Hyperion Book CH, 2008. Spaghetti Eddie. Boyds Mills Press, 2009. No Sleep for the Sheep! HMH Books for Young Readers, 2011. If You're Hoppy. Greenwillow Books, 2011. I've Lost My Hippopotamus. Greenwillow Books, 2012. King of the Zoo. Orchard Books, 2013. I Want Your Smile, Crocodile. Zonderkidz, 2018.

Other published contributions

Gay Comix #4, "A Word From Our Sponsor..."Wimmen's Comix #14, "Losers in Love"