Phoebe Gilman
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Phoebe Gilman (April 4, 1940 – August 29, 2002) was a Canadian-American children's book author and illustrator.
Her books were notable for their strong lead female characters.
Her book Something from Nothing, adapted from an old Yiddish tale, won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award for best children's book, and was later adapted for television.
Born in The Bronx, New York, where she lived her first years, she later lived in Europe, Israel, and finally settled in Canada in 1972.
Early life
The second of three children, Phoebe Gilman was born to John and Hannah Gilman on April 4, 1940 in the Bronx. Her father was a textile worker originally and loved photography. Gilman cited her mother as the inspiration for her love of books, and she was an avid reader all her life.
She attended the School of Industrial Art, spent a brief time at Hunter College and went to Art Students League of New York. After this she travelled to Europe, where she lived in Rome for a short period before moving to Jerusalem, where she made a living making and selling paintings. She visited Montreal on her return to North America in the early 1970s before settling in Toronto, where she met her future husband Brian Bender, whom she married in 1974. Gilman taught for fifteen years at the Ontario College of Art.
Literary career
For her daughter Ingrid, Gilman recalled that seeing a balloon pop on a tree branch inspired her to write a story about a tree that grew balloons for fruit. However, her early attempts to get her book published met with rejections, and it took her 15 years to see her book published in 1984 by Scholastic Inc. in Canada. Jillian Jiggs' book Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, which was based on a time when Gilman's daughter and a friend went into 'business' making and selling mice bookmarks. On the other hand, the 1992 story Something From Nothing is a retelling of an old Yiddish tale. She also illustrated the children's books she wrote. She recalled spending ten years on The Balloon Tree. Grandma and the Pirates, for example, began as 'Grandma's Chocolate Chicken,' and her tales often changed in progress. Gilman said she grew to love the books she read and regretted them when they were finished and weren't ready to be published. In an illustration in Jillian Jiggs, she boosted herself up by inserting subtexts or references to older works in newer stories; for example, a small copy of The Balloon Tree can be seen on the table.
Gilman's books were known for their strong female lead characters. Something from Nothing went on to win the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award for the best children's book, and it was then turned into a television special.