Laura vaccaro seeger

She began drawing at two years old and never stopped. She then moved to Manhattan and began a career as an animator, artist, designer, and editor in the network television business. Vaccaro Seeger has been an artist and a writer for as long as she can remember and has always wanted to make picture books for children. By that time, she had written and illustrated her own little library.

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Over the years, she continued to make books of all shapes and sizes and several years ago, she decided it was time to try to get some of her books published. She was fortunate to have met her editor, Neal Porter, almost immediately. They are now starting work on their nineteenth book together and have plans for many more. She reached a point in her life when she decided it was time to focus seriously on the ideas filling her journals and to create concept books for children.

Vaccaro Seeger presents concepts through words and images in clever ways designed to appeal not only to children, but also to the adults who read to them. Through the inventive use of die-cuts, she forces shifts in perspective that turn even the simplest concepts—such as the alphabet in The Hidden Alphabet—into something new and fresh.

Her process begins with an idea that captures her interest. Then she taps into the skills she honed at Purchase in both graphic design and painting.