MATTHEW TRUEMAN
represented by Michèle Manasse
telephone: 215.862.2091

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Posted on 03/01/2010

 BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Trueman grew up in Friuli Venezia Giulia, 45 minutes north of Venice in northern Italy.
He returned to the States to attend the Ringling School of Art and Design, and graduated with a B.F.A in illustration.
He works from a studio in his home by the Delaware River, where he lives with his wife Anna, a "sommelière",
a book artist and a printmaker, and their daughter Mina.
His current projects include an upcoming children's book for Candlewick Press to be published in January 2009
children's books for Random House, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, Dutton Children's Books,Chronicle Children Books
and an upcoming children's book for Farrar Straus & Giroux as well as corporate and editorial work.
His passion for food, eating it and never cooking it makes of him the best gourmand around.
He also likes the ourtdoors, whether jogging or baling hay in his friends' farm.

CLIENTS

Magazines & Newspapers
The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Magazine,
The Wilson Quarterly, American Banker Magazine, World Watch Institute, The Boston Globe, Golf World Magazine,
Community Association Institute, Bon Appetit Magazine, Brown University, France Magazine,  Dell Magazine,
American Prospect Magazine,  Harvard Magazine, American Spectator Magazine, Inc.Magazine, Congregations Magazine,
Cahners Business Information,  Treasury & Risk Magazine, America Lawyer Media Magazine, The Magazine Group,
Weightwatchers Magazine,  Digital South Magazine, NFPA Journal, Academe Magazine.

Advertising & Design
The Coca-Cola Company, GA Creative, First Mutual Bank, Novartis Phamaceuticals, The Fisher Theatre, Integrated Communications,
Baldwin & Stone Inc., SMZ Advertising, CIO Design Group, Tingas-Hill Design, Lorraine Doan Publishing, Phoenix Graphics,
Noble Associates, White Knight Engineered Products, Nedap Corporation.

Book Publishers
Random House, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Candlewick Press, Dutton Children's Books, Harcourt Publishers, Simon & Schuster Publishers,
Houghton Mifflin Publishers, Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Publishers, Three Communication Design, Korey-Lie Graphics, Silver Editions,
Springhouse Publishing, Brown Publishing Network, Steck-Vaughn Publishers, Bill Smith Studio.

AWARDS

Awards for "When the Chickens Went on Strike"
New York Public Library Children's Books 2003: One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing
2003 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Younger Readers
Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators The Original Art 2003:  Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration
2004 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People May/June 2004 issue of SOCIAL EDUCATION, published by the
 National Council for the Social Studies.

Awards for "Noah's Mittens"
-New York Public Library Children's Books 2006: One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing
-Book Sense Winter 2006-2007 Children's Picks List.
Original art in collections  for "Noah's Mittens"
-Private Collector in Minnesota
-Public Collection: Cover art at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Ohio

Awards for "A Picture for Marc"
2008 Notable Book for Younger Readers by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee of the Association of Jewish Libraries
2008 list of The Best Children’s Books of the Year, for books published in 2007, The Bank Street College of Education.

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