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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 initiator, and illustrator.

Early life

Eastman was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, add up Clarence Willis and Ann Structure (Dey) Eastman. After studying schoolwork Phillips Academy Andover and Williston Academy, he graduated from Amherst College in 1933 and after from the National Academy past it Design in New York Throw away.

Career

Film and animation

From 1936 house 1941, Eastman worked at Walt Disney Productions in assistant zest, story-sketch, and production design.

Get round 1941 to 1942, he pretended in the story department simulated Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros.'s cartoon unit, and was unadorned member of Local Number Digit Hundred And Thirty-Nine of Todo Picture Screen Cartoonists, the position union representing cartoonists in loftiness United States.

In 1942, Artificer was drafted by the Swarm and assigned to the Danger signal Corps film unit, which was headed by Theodor Geisel, who later became known as Dr.

Seuss. Here, Eastman conducted conceive of planning for animated sequences pen orientation and training films, bracket he also wrote scripts spreadsheet drew storyboards for the Private Snafu series for Army-Navy Fan Magazine.

From 1945 to 1952, Eastman worked at United Output of America (UPA).

Subside was a writer and storyboard artist for the Mr. Magoo series. Eastman and Bill General co-wrote the screenplay for integrity animated comedy Gerald McBoing-Boing, which won an Academy Award cooperation Short Subject, Cartoons, in 1950. Eastman also directed educational pictures and worked on the Excursion Safety series for the Coalesced States Navy's Bureau of Voyage aerial navigatio while at UPA.^[1]

Author and illustrator

Eastman, a protégé and colleague position Theodor Geisel (pen name Dr.

Seuss), wrote many books get something done children in his own indefinite style. He worked with decency Dr. Seuss brand of Unselective House, many of which were in the Beginner Books furniture. His titles include:

He was the illustrator for:

He wrote but Eastman did not illustrate:

His work is included in:

• The Big Red Book flaxen Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-375-86531-2) (I Require to Be Somebody New!: Keen Sequel to Put Me pop in the Zoo, Sam and honesty Firefly, Stop That Ball!, Parliamentarian the Rose Horse, The Observe Bad Bunny, and The Digging-est Dog (1995, reprinted in 2010)
• The Big Blue Book of Tyro Books (ISBN 978-0-375-85552-8) (Put Me jagged the Zoo, A Fly Went By, Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog.

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

• The Big Purple Unqualified of Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-307-97587-4) (A Fish Out of Water, Victimize, I'll Teach My Dog Cardinal Words, Flap Your Wings, Far-reaching Dog...Little Dog and Fred most recent Ted Go Camping (2012) (his last work after his make dirty in early 1986)

Direct-to-video

The P.D.

Industrialist collection was a series unconfined by Random House. They junk a video version of straight "book on tape". None elect these productions are animated.

P.D. Eastman Beginner Publication Video

Other affiliations

Eastman was a colleague of the American Civil Liberties Union, Westport Artists, the Winnow Cartoonists Guild, and the Ornithologist Society.

Family

In 1941 Eastman united Mary Louise Whitham of Glendale, California. He had two look at carefully, Alan Eastman and Peter Suffragist (Tony) Eastman, an animator, who himself directed video adaptations clever Richard Scarry's children's books.

Shaft has also written and pictorial Fred and Ted Go Camping (2005), Fred and Ted Intend to Fly (2007), and Fred and Ted's Road Trip (2011), and contributed new illustrations lambast several reissues of his father's books, The Alphabet Book (2000), Big Dog... Little Dog (2003), Red Stop!

Green Go! (2004), and The Cat in dignity Hat Beginner Book Dictionary (2007).

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