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Diane Goode (born January 14, 1949) is a children's book author and illustrator. She has written several children's books and illustrated over 60,

including New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty and the Caldecott Honor Book When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982). Reviewing Goode's illustrations in Thanksgiving Is Here! (2003), the New York Times said that "Diane Goode's pen-and-ink drawings spin out like ragtime, each squiggle denoting a rustle of silk or a whoop or whisper." Goode lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Early life
Goode's mother was French and recited traditional children's stories from memory when Goode was a child. Of her mother, Goode said: "I thought she was perfect, I still think of her as the best possible mother."

She has said that from the time she picked up a pencil, she knew she wanted to be an artist. Goode enjoyed reading as a child, particularly works by Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights, which she read six times. She majored in Fine Arts at Queens College.

Before Goode supported herself as an illustrator, she worked for one year in New York City as a substitute teacher.

Career
Goode's first illustrated book was The Little Pieces of the West Wind in 1978, and the first book she authored was I Hear a Noise.

Goode produced new illustrations for a reissue of Noel Streatfeild's classic children's story Ballet Shoes in 1991. In 1994, Goode published Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories and Songs. Goode has collaborated with journalist Cokie Roberts twice, illustrating the bestsellers Founding Mothers (2014) and Ladies of Liberty (2008).

Goode has taught book illustration at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Creative process
Goode has explained how she comes up with story ideas:"For book ideas — I write them down. Sometimes I get ideas in the middle of the night, and I write them down, even in the dark. It might just be a sentence. I also draw things — like a little character might come into my head. And in my studio, I have a big architect's cabinet with files, and I keep drawings there. They never become a story in themselves, but they may inspire one or be part of one. Because when I start the story, I don't know what it will be — it changes."Goode creates her illustrations by hand; she does not use a computer. She works around 8 to 10 hours a day, noting that her work as an illustrator is "not a hobby." Goode listens to jazz while she works. She has three studios in her home, which uses for different stages of a project.

Goode's artistic process changes for each project. For Founding Mothers, Goode worked on heavy water color paper in sepia ink. When she was happy with the ink outline, she colored the image with pastels, applied "with small, soft sponges, sometimes using the tip of a very fine brush to apply the pastel in a tiny spot."

Goode's most used art tools are #5B Staedtler pencils, Sakura Pigma pens and brushes, and Windsor & Newton series 7 brushes.

Awards and exhibitions
Goode has been awarded the Caldecott Honor, ALA Notables, Parents' Choice Awards, Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year, and other honors.

Goode's work has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is in various permanent museum collections.

Personal life
Goode is married and has a son and two dogs.