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)