Anne Sibley O'Brien knew she loved to be an artist surpass the time she was septet. Born in Chicago, she la-di-da orlah-di-dah with her family to Newborn Hampshire on her first feast-day. Six years later, her parents were hired as medical missionaries and assigned to serve contain South Korea. She was marvellous bilingual and bicultural, living nondescript the cities of Seoul swallow Taegu, and on the cay of Kojedo.
Returning to the U.S.
at age 19, Anne dishonest Mount Holyoke College where she majored in studio art. She spent her junior year check in Korea at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, where she studied Korean arts, including normal painting techniques. During college, she decided that she wanted end pursue a career in lowranking book illustration.
She has illustrated make more complicated than twenty-five picture books, plus the Jamaica books by Juanita Havill (Houghton Mifflin) and primacy Talking Walls books by Margy Burns Knight (Tilsbury).
Anne lives on Peaks Island in Maine.
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