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Loren Long

#1 New York Times Best Seller LOREN LONG’s illustrations have received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and his first picture book, Angela Johnson’s I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Illustrations and his inspired interpretation of Walt Whitman’s When I Heard Learn’d Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor. A much sought after editorial artist whose work has appeared in Times, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly, Loren is widely known for the illustrations in Madonna’s #1 New York Times Best Seller Mr. Peabody’s Apples.... Read full bio

Nightsong will be released on September 25, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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Smash!Crash! is now available in eBook
Jan 24, 2012
Smash!Crash! will be released on January 24, 2012 in eBook
Jan 24, 2012
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Nightsong
Jan 17, 2012
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Nightsong
Jan 07, 2012
A Christmas Surprise will be released on October 04, 2011 in Novelty
Oct 04, 2011
A Christmas Surprise is now available in Novelty
Oct 04, 2011
Honk That Horn! will be released on June 28, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Jun 28, 2011
Honk That Horn! is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 28, 2011
Kat's Maps will be released on June 28, 2011 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
Jun 28, 2011
Kat's Maps is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
Jun 28, 2011
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Honk That Horn!
Apr 20, 2011
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Truckery Rhymes has won an award
Apr 20, 2011
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Kat's Maps
Mar 11, 2011
Take a Trip with Trucktown! will be released on March 08, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Mar 08, 2011
Take a Trip with Trucktown! is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 08, 2011

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Hispanic PR Wire, February 3, 2012
...Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - are: Junkyard Fort, by Jon Scieszka, and illustrated by David Shannon, Loren Long and Dave Gordon. A new book in the popular "Trucktown" series, available exclusively inside Cheerios boxes. Scieszka is the United...
Zimbio, December 31, 2011
..."The Splendid Splinter" have yet to be broken. New York Times bestselling author of the Sluggers series (with Loren Long), Phil Bildner has written an accessible tribute to two of baseball's greatest heroes. Packed with fun facts and statistics for eager...
Danville Patch, December 22, 2011
...have become positively obsessed with all things related to the Little Drummer Boy this year. Drummer Boy by Loren Long. Appealing to my boys’ love of the little drummer boy story this year, this take has a sort of “Toy Story” twist when a toy...
School Library Journal, December 20, 2011
...we had an aluminum tree, but we didn't take any pictures though we did get great gifts. Loren Long has brought new artistic interpretations to the Christmas classic Drummer Boy (Philomel, 2008) and The Little Engine That Could (Philomel, 2005). He also...
TheDay.com, December 17, 2011
...the concept, "A Box of Bugs" makes a great gift. "Otis and the Tornado" written and illustrated by Loren Long, Philomel, 2011, 40 pages, $17.99 hardcover. Otis was a cheerful tractor who had many animal friends on the farm, and one of their favorite...
Appeal-Democrat.com, December 8, 2011
...the concept, "A Box of Bugs" makes a great gift. "Otis and the Tornado" written and illustrated by Loren Long, Philomel, 2011, 40 pages, $17.99 hardcover. Otis was a cheerful tractor who had many animal friends on the farm, and one of their favorite...
Greenville News, December 5, 2011
...www.lb-kids.com. “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” Written by Barack Obama, illustrated by Loren Long, Random House Children’s Books, 2011; $17.99; www.randomhouse.com/kids. Books for ages 9 – 12 “Never Forgotten,” Written by...
Free US Link Directory - Add Link, September 28, 2011
...The Late Age of Print Ted Striphas Striphas investigates the everydayness of books that he claims Otis Loren Long Otis is a special tractor He loves his farmer and he loves to work And he loves...
teach mama, September 26, 2011
...who wrote “The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist” and more), Tom Angleberger (“The Strange Case of Origami Yoda”), Loren Long (author/ illustrator of “Of Thee I Sing” by President Barack Obama and “Otis and the Tornado”), Jarrett J....
MMB Community, July 8, 2011
...on a journey. A journey that will change his life. Magic in the Outfield (Sluggers Series #1) by Loren Long Overview (from the publisher): Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's...
Lemuria Bookstore Blog, May 19, 2011
...not least a few Children’s authors that we’re working on: Christopher Paolini, Anna Dewdney (Llama Llama), Loren Long (Otis the Tractor), Rick Riordan, Jane O’Connor (Fancy Nancy), William Joyce, Mem Fox, and Kate DiCamillo (again!).  ...
Carol's Notebook, May 14, 2011
...2009 by Philomel4½ out of 5 starsI read Otis as part of the Choose to Read Ohio program. Loren Long, the writer and illustrator, lives near Cincinnati, Ohio...
Knoxville MamaBelle, May 10, 2011
...out as the Dollywood's Penguin Players present their musical interpretation of this lively Imagination Library book by Loren Long. Monday, May 23, 11 a.m. at South Knoxville Branch**  and 3 p.m. at Howard Pinkston Branch Tuesday, May 24, 10:30 a.m. at...
Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help, February 19, 2011
...short paragraph talking about the American he is paying tribute to. And each is beautifully illustrated by artist Loren Long. Whatever your feeling about President Obama, one thing that’s clear is that he loves his daughters and he loves his country....