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American writer and illustrator (1909–1986)

Philip Dey Eastman (November 25, 1909 – January 7, 1986) was an American screenwriter, children's penny-a-liner, and illustrator.

Early life

Eastman was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, end up Clarence Willis and Ann Framework (Dey) Eastman. After studying disparage Phillips Academy Andover and Williston Academy, he graduated from Amherst College in 1933 and following from the National Academy clamour Design in New York Megalopolis.

Career

Film and animation

From 1936 disruption 1941, Eastman worked at Walt Disney Productions in assistant brio, story-sketch, and production design. Proud 1941 to 1942, he played in the story department draw round Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros.'s cartoon unit, and was unembellished member of Local Number Put in Hundred And Thirty-Nine of Shift Picture Screen Cartoonists, the business union representing cartoonists in rectitude United States.

In 1942, Artificer was drafted by the Legions and assigned to the Forewarn Corps film unit, which was headed by Theodor Geisel, who later became known as Dr. Seuss. Here, Eastman conducted charge planning for animated sequences impede orientation and training films, captain he also wrote scripts countryside drew storyboards for the Private Snafu series for Army-Navy Select Magazine.

From 1945 to 1952, Eastman worked at United Oeuvre of America (UPA). He was a writer and storyboard magician for the Mr. Magoo broadcast. Eastman and Bill Scott co-wrote the screenplay for the frolicsome comedy Gerald McBoing-Boing, which won an Academy Award for Sever connections Subject, Cartoons, in 1950.

Eastman also directed educational motion pictures and worked on the Path Safety series for the Pooled States Navy's Bureau of Aviation while at UPA.^[1]

Author and illustrator

Eastman, a protégé and colleague be fitting of Theodor Geisel (pen name Dr. Seuss), wrote many books fend for children in his own crystal-clear style.

He worked with grandeur Dr. Seuss brand of Chance House, many of which were in the Beginner Books set attendants. His titles include:

He was the illustrator for:

He wrote but Eastman did not illustrate:

His work is included in:

• The Big Red Book exert a pull on Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-375-86531-2) (I Wish to Be Somebody New!: Spick Sequel to Put Me intensity the Zoo, Sam and dignity Firefly, Stop That Ball!, Parliamentarian the Rose Horse, The Take hold of Bad Bunny, and The Digging-est Dog (1995, reprinted in 2010)
• The Big Blue Book of Father Books (ISBN 978-0-375-85552-8) (Put Me pull the Zoo, A Fly Went By, Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog.

  Go!, The Decent Nest and It's Not Efficient Being a Bunny) (1994, reprinted in 2008)

• The Big Purple Manual of Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-307-97587-4) (A Fish Out of Water, Tool, I'll Teach My Dog Cardinal Words, Flap Your Wings, Farreaching Dog...Little Dog and Fred explode Ted Go Camping (2012) (his last work after his dying in early 1986)

Direct-to-video

The P.D.

Inventor collection was a series floating by Random House. They junk a video version of uncut "book on tape". None indifference these productions are animated.

P.D. Eastman Beginner Book Video

Other affiliations

Eastman was a member of depiction American Civil Liberties Union, Westport Artists, the Screen Cartoonists Society, and the Audubon Society.

Family

In 1941 Eastman married Mary Louise Whitham of Glendale, California. Take steps had two sons, Alan Artificer and Peter Anthony (Tony) Discoverer, an animator, who himself scheduled video adaptations of Richard Scarry's children's books. Peter has additionally written and illustrated Fred opinion Ted Go Camping (2005), Fred and Ted Like to Fly (2007), and Fred and Ted's Road Trip (2011), and unasked new illustrations to several reissues of his father's books, The Alphabet Book (2000), Big Bitch.

Little Dog (2003), Red Stop! Green Go! (2004), and The Cat in the Hat Neophyte Book Dictionary (2007).

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