He has traveled widely, married and raised a son who has also pursued writing and illustrating as a career. Since then he has written over 70 children’s books, including Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius, the IRA Children’s Choice Award-winning Mr. Even before graduating from The Cooper Union with a degree in Fine Art, he published his first children’s book, George’s Store in 1968. His earliest interests were in science, specifically physics and astronomy, yet by the time he entered college he was determined to pursue a career in the Arts.

“Frank Asch was born and raised in rural New Jersey. Teacher in a public grammar school in Gondia Maharastra, India, 1972, and in a Montessori school in Edison, NJ, 1975.”. “Author and illustrator of children’s books, 1968. Devin made his picture-book debut with the father/son collaboration, Baby Duck’s New Friend.”-from They have one son, Devin, who was born in 1979. It is the fourth (and last) book in the “element” book series that already includes The Earth and I, Water, and The Sun Is My Favorite Star.Īsch lives in Middletown Springs, Vermont, with his wife, Jan, and their faithful dog, Robi. Like a Windy Day was released in fall 2002. In 1996, their first book, Sawgrass Poems, was named to the John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers. Asch also joined forces with naturalist and photographer Ted Levin for a series of poetry books for children. In l989, Frank Asch and Vladimir Vagin (a Russian artist) published Here Comes the Cat! This was the first Russian/American collaboration on a children’s book, and has since received the Russian National Book Award. He has also organized art, writing, puppetry, and creative dramatics workshops for children all over the country. Since then he has taught in both the United States and abroad. In 1969 he graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts. Number 1: My inner child (the kid that I was that I still am), andįrank Asch was born on August 6, 1946, in Somerville, NJ. “I keep giving them different answers because the true answer is, I don’t know, which is another way of saying ‘ideas come from the unconscious.’ But there are two main ways that I, personally, have of tapping into the part of my unconscious that supplies me with kid book ideas:

“People always ask me, how do you get ideas?” Asch says. “For over 30 years, Frank Asch has been writing and illustrating children’s books, poetry, concept books, juvenile nonfiction, and children’s novels.

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