When Tafuri finally found herself illustrating children’s books, either her own or other authors’, she felt she had found her life’s calling and a strong sense of joy from creating them. They opened their business in New York City, but eventually moved their studio and home to Connecticut.Īt this time, Nancy was able to devote all of her time to writing and illustration.
Their primary product was dust jackets for hardcover books.
The Tafuri’s opened their own graphic design studio, in 1971. She left two years later and married Thomas Tafuri, a fellow student at the School of Visual Arts. Her first job was as an assistant art director for the publishing firm Simon & Schuster. Tafuri entered the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1964. For the first ten years of her life she was an only child and says that this helped her to learn to entertain herself with stories and art. Since then she has had the opportunity to work with Scholastic Press, Scholastic Inc., Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division and most recently Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, Little, Brown and Company. Finally, Tafuri’s talent was recognized and tapped at Greenwillow Books, Harper Collins Publishers. “The pictures are too big,” she was told over and over about the large, colorful shapes she drew. Tafuri’s images were considered “too graphic” for children that age. When Tafuri first attempted picture book illustration in the late 1970’s picture books were aimed at five-, six-, and seven-year-olds. We repeated the experiment we did last year.Nancy Tafuri is probably best known as the creator of Have You Seen My Duckling?, a 1985 Caldecott Honor Book described by Parent’s Choice as “beautifully precise yet emotionally affecting.” Trained as a graphic designer, Tafuri has authored more than 45 books over 30 years for the very young. I chose this game because he is learning how to read the numeral names in his Mathletics. It was not my intention to teach Malachi to sound out the words, but merely to sound out some of the word to give him clues to the words. I'm posting the following video to share a little hullabaloo that goes on in our home.
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