Bobbie Kinkead

East Bay

During Bobbie Kinkead's childhood while living in the mountains of Colorado, she wrote, sketched, and told stories. In sixth grade she had the extraordinary opportunity of attending the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Activities in tempera painting, chalk, clay building, watercolors, and paper mache convinced Bobbie that art was her life. She drew people, fairies, cats, rabbits, and dogs traveling on adventures. She still has illustrations she did in sixth grade, junior high and high school. She studied Elementary Education and Art at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In the summer of her senior year Bobbie had the pleasure of attending a course on children's literature and drew her first picture book dummy. She had no idea how to publish her works until 1982 when she saw an ad in the College of Oakland Arts and Crafts newsletter. The Society of Children's Book Writers invited illustrators to their Los Angeles conference. That conference was Bobbie's opening into the world of writing and illustrating books for children.

Bobbie Kinkead 510-655-5608 Storytelller/Author/Illustrator

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