Drummer Hoff [SEP] illustrator
Drummer Hoff
Drummer Hoff is the title and main character of a children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley. Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a cumulative tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon named "Sultan", and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off, with the book exploding into a blast of colors. The last picture shows the exploded cannon at a future point in time among wildflowers and birds.
The illustrations evoke both 1960s
American picture book or children". "Drummer Hoff" was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.
Selected works.
- "A Birthday Wish" 1977
- "Bits and Bytes" (illustrator)
- "Bye-Bye, Big Bad Bullybug"
- "Chicken Little" 2009 (illustrator)
- "Clothing" (illustrator)
- "Columbus Day" (illustrator)
- "Drawing Book of Faces
- "Drummer Hoff" 1968 (illustrator)