Award-winning children's illustrator David Catrow appears at the Allen Public Library at 2 pm Saturday, Dec. 10. He has illustrated more than 70 books for kids, including Don't Take Your Snake for a Stroll by Karin Ireland, Where Did They Hide My Presents? by Alan Katz, and Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Recently, David is excited about his easy reader series entitled Max Daniel, published by Scholastic. A former cartoonist for the Springfield News-Sun and Copley News service, Catrow's works were syndicated in over 900 newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Sun-Times. In addition, Catrow created the visual development for 20th Century Fox's "Horton Hears a Who" (2008). "As a five-year-old, I read Dr. Seuss', which became a seminal moment in my life because of the intense emotional feelings of joy it evoked and have lived inside me since that experience," this illustrator recalls. "In 2005, film directors Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino asked me to help develop the look of a film based on Seuss' beloved book of the same name and I quite literally jumped at the offer. In a little over a year I cranked out so many drawings, that if you tied them together in a bundle and dropped them on your foot you'd break a few toes. It was an ethereal and delightful experience because it afforded me the opportunity to revisit those feelings I first experienced ...
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