Talk:Locomotive (book)

Removed Bio
I removed this bio as there is an article on the author. Perhaps some of this information and/or references can move to the author page. HullIntegrity (talk) 13:46, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Biography
Brian Floca is known as an author and illustrator of children books. He was born in Temple, Texas. His father is the owner of a Bottling plant and he is a homemaker too While he was studying at Brown University School of Visuals Art where he graduated and received his FMA, he was also taking classes at Rhode Island School of design where, for the first the time, he became recognize as an illustrator.

His relationship as a student with author and illustrator of children’s books, David Macaulay, influenced  Brian to work as an illustrator of  Avi’s  books City of Light, City of Dark and Poppy  which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. (2)

At the beginning of his career, Brian used white and black colors for his drawings. He is more a drawer than a painter, because he feels more comfortable to work with lines, for he just needs paint to fill in drawings. Even though water color was hard because it goes beyond the lines and made him take improvisations and challenges or start over again at the end all of these made his work better and more interesting.

In 2013, Brian Floca wrote and illustrated, Locomotive,   a children’s  book which earned, for a third time, the Sibert Honor  and Randolph Caldecott Medal Other works of Brian Floca are Five trucks, Racecar Alphabet, lightship and Moonshot. Brian Floca now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York