Rebecca Dudley
Rebecca Dudley has published two children's picture books: Hank Finds an Egg and Hank Has a Dream. She makes everything in her illustrations: the creatures, trees, ponds, and skies. She has always liked to build things and take pictures. In seventh grade she made an excellent model of the Parthenon out of file folders. Everyone thought her parents made it, but she made it by herself on the dining room table while her parents were in the living room, reading. Rebecca won a traveling fellowship a while ago and went to Japan for four months.
Rebecca grew up in Durham, New Hampshire, a woodsy place with hills and streams. She lived a short walk from a nice movie theater where, as a child, she often went to movies alone, on school nights.
She broke her arm twice and her leg once, and had eight stitches in her head, all before the age of ten. She was labeled ‘accident-prone’ but she knew she was just very excited about climbing trees and swimming and playing on swings and jungle gyms.
She draws and paints and dances and plays lots of musical instruments.
She loves old things and does not think tidying up is a good idea.
She would like to go to school forever and has studied many subjects. She is a licensed architect, which she only tells people when she wants to be taken seriously.