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Trina Schart HymanTrina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939- November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and won four Caldecott awards. Born in Philadelphia to Margaret Doris Bruck and Albert H. Schart, she grew up in a rural area of Pennsylvania and learned to read and draw at an early age. Her favorite story as a child was Little Red Riding Hood, and she spent an entire year of her childhood wearing a red cape. She enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in 1956, but moved to Boston in 1959 after marrying Harris Hyman, a mathematician and engineer. She graduated from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1960. The couple then moved to Stockholm, Sweden for two years, where Trina studied at the Konstfackskolan (Swedish State Art School) and illustrated her first children's book called Toffe och den lilla bilen (Toffe and the Little Car). In 1963 the couple's daughter Katrin was born, but in 1968 they divorced, and Trina and Katrin moved to New Hampshire, where Trina lived for the rest of her days. Trina Schart Hyman served as art director of Cricket Magazine from 1973 to 1979. Her books have won numerous awards, including the Caldecott honor for illustrating Little Red Riding Hood in 1984, the Caldecott medal for Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges in 1985, and Caldecott honors for Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel in 1990 and A Child's Calendar by John Updike in 2000; the Boston Globe-Horn Book honor for illustration in 1968 for All in Free but Janey and in 1978 for On to Widecombe Fair, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for illustration in 1973 for King Stork. She is also considered one of the first white American illustrators to regularly incorporate black characters into her illustrations, as a matter of ideology. Outside link: Schart Hyman, Trina Schart Hyman, Trina
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