
Amy Deshaies Sharp
I have been called a whirling dervish (multi-tasking skills), cartoon character (comic relief ability), and 'air dancer’ (those things that flap about at oil change places – you’d get it if you saw my arms).
I have put all of these attributes to use working creatively in the advertising industry for over 20 years, where my work has been recognized internationally.
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I earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia, and live in Memphis, TN, where great music is always playing.
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My Life in Books
Amy's Long Night (for obvious reasons)
Harry the Dirty Dog
Anything Richard Scarry
Cranberry Thanksgiving
The Boxcar Children
Miss Piggle Wiggle
Encyclopedia Brown
Anything Roald Dahl
Various Nancy Drews
The Westing Game
Approximately 800 Archie Digests
Sweet Valley High (I have to include it)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Any Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot
Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley
(insert various mysteries, biographies, or anything
by Southern writers)
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and I have come full circle back to children's books. Here are some of my all-time favorites from authors and illustrators I greatly admire.
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
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Beautiful Griselda
ISOL
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No Fits, Nilson!
Zachariah O'Hora
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Iggy Peck Architect
Andrea Beaty (with outstanding illustration by David Roberts)
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Anything illustrated by Manon Gauthier
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François Truffaut: El niño que amaba el cine
Luca Tortolini (with outstanding illustration by Victoria Semykina)
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All books by David Mackintosh
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The Disgusting Critters series
Elise Gravel
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Warren the 13th series
Tania del Rio (with outstanding illustration by Will Staehle)