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Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Growing up in upstate New York amidst a family of successful painters and illustrators, Bliss went on to study painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Illustration at The University of the Arts (BFA) and Syracuse University (MA). Prior to his cartoons and covers for The New Yorker magazine, Bliss illustrated dozens of book covers for writers such as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Uhnak, Bob Dole, and Fiona Buckley.

Bliss's first children's book, A Fine, Fine School by Newbery-award winning author, Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. Bliss went on to illustrate Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig, Countdown To Kindergarten by Alison McGhee, a winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, a #1 New York Times bestseller as well as Don't Forget To Come Back by Robie H. Harris (featured in the 24th Annual Exhibition of "The Original Art Show" at the Society of Illustrators). Bliss's current book Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee was published in the Fall of 2004, followed by Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin due out in the Fall of 2005.

Harry Bliss lives in South Burlington, Vermont.


Countdown to Kindergarten

Price: $16.00
ISBN: 0-152-02516-2 (hardcover)
Price: $6.00
ISBN: 0-152-05586-X (paperback)
Grade level: pre-K
Author: Alison McGhee

It's ten days before kindergarten--and according to a first grader, you can't get in unless you know how to tie your shoes. What is an almost-kindergarten-girl up against the clock to do?


Diary of a Spider

Price: $15.99
ISBN: 0-060-00153-4 (hardcover)
Grade level: K-2
Author: Doreen Cronin

"Cronin and Bliss repeat the comic ingredients that made Diary of a Worm so successful in this rib-tickling sequel." Publishers Weekly


Diary of a Worm

Price: $15.99
ISBN: 0-060-00150-X (hardcover)
Grade level: K-2
Author: Doreen Cronin

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.


Don't Forget to Come Back!

Price: $15.99
ISBN: 0-763-61782-2 (hardcover)
Grade level: infants-pre-K
Author: Robie H. Harris

When her parents go out for the evening, a little girl threatens to run off to Alaska but has a good time with the babysitter instead.



Fine, Fine School

Price: $15.99
ISBN: 0-060-27736-X (hardcover)
Price: 6.99
ISBN: 0-060-00728-1 (paperback)
Grade level: K-2
Author: Sharon Creech

When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it's up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too.


Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth

Price: $16.00
ISBN: 0-152-04931-2 (hardcover)
Grade level: pre-K-2
Author: Alison McGhee


A Very Brave Witch

Price: $12.95
ISBN: 0-689-86730-1 (hardcover)
Grade level: PreS-K
Author: Alison McGhee

"This gently humorous story is teamed with appealing, warm, yet appropriately spooky watercolors that depict the very brave witch on what is, naturally, her favorite holiday." Kirkus Reviews

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST FOR CHILDRENS' PICTURE BOOKS


Which Would You Rather Be?

Price: $15.95
ISBN: 0-060-29653-4 (hardcover)
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 0-064-43792-2 (paperback)
Grade level: pre-K-2
Author: William Steig

Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Growing up in upstate New York amidst a family of successful painters and illustrators, Bliss went on to study painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Illustration at The University of the Arts (BFA) and Syracuse University (MA). Prior to his cartoons and covers for The New Yorker magazine, Bliss illustrated dozens of book covers for writers such as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Uhnak, Bob Dole, and Fiona Buckley.

Bliss's first children's book, A Fine, Fine School by Newbery-award winning author, Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. Bliss went on to illustrate Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig, Countdown To Kindergarten by Alison McGhee, a winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, a #1 New York Times bestseller as well as Don't Forget To Come Back by Robie H. Harris (featured in the 24th Annual Exhibition of "The Original Art Show" at the Society of Illustrators). Bliss's current book Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee was published in the Fall of 2004, followed by Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin due out in the Fall of 2005.

Harry Bliss lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

 

 

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