Brian Floca
Author of Locomotive
About the Author
Brian Floca was born and raised in Temple, Texas. He graduated from Brown University and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal. He has also written and illustrated Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo show more 11, Lightship, The Racecar Alphabet, and Five Trucks. He is the illustrator of the Poppy Stories series, by Avi; Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels; and Lynne Cox's forthcoming Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. His books have received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards, an Orbis Pictus Award, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have twice been selected for The New York Times' annual 10 Best Illustrated Books list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Works by Brian Floca
Ethan's Bike 1 copy
Associated Works
Billy and the Rebel: Based on a True Civil War Story (2005) — Illustrator, some editions — 73 copies
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- Temple, Texas, USA
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- Brown University. School of Fine Arts (MFA|1991)
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- illustrator (children's literature)
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While those who lived in the city were quaranteed inside, and this book highlights some of those who kept the city going such as, the garbage collectors, the nurses, doctors and staff of the hospitals, those who delivered food to the stores, the technicians that kept the cell phone system working, the cleaners who kept the city free of a lot of debre, the bus, taxi and train workers who transported those who had necessary jobs and could not stay at home, the electricians, telephone maintenance, water supply personnel and many unsung heros who deserve a lot of credit!… (more)