Cook, Ande

Personal

Married. Education: Attended art school. Hobbies and other interests: Nature, photography.

Addresses

Home—Atlanta, GA; Blue Ridge, GA. E-mail—andecook@tds.net.

Career

Illustrator and fine-arts painter. Formerly worked as a high-school art teacher; Georgia State University, former instructor in art education. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, former director of teacher training; freelance illustrator. Georgia Council for the Arts, former artist-in-residence.

Member

pARTicular Women Artists.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Art Starters: Fifty Nifty Thrifty Art Activities, David Pub. (Worcester, MA), 1996.

ILLUSTRATOR

Debbie Trafton O'Neal, O Christmas Tree, Augsburg Fortress (Minneapolis, MN), 2003.

Christin Ditchfield, Bible Heroes of the Old Testament, Golden Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Joanne Barkan, Firefly's First Flight, Reader's Digest Books, 2005.

Suzan Nadimi, The Rich Man and the Parrot, Albert Whitman (Morton Grove, IL), 2007.

Contributor to periodicals, including School Arts.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 1, 2007, Hazel Rochman, review of The Rich Man and the Parrot, p. 54.

Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2007, review of The Rich Man and the Parrot.

Publishers Weekly, April 16, 2007, review of The Rich Man and the Parrot, p. 51.

School Library Journal, April, 2007, Catherine Threadgill, review of The Rich Man and the Parrot, p. 124.

ONLINE

Ande Cook Home Page,http://www.andecook.com (August 15, 2008).

pARTicular Women Artists Web site,http://www.particularwomen.org/ (August 15, 2008), "Ande Cook."