Mary Azarian
Azarian won the Caldecott Medal in 1999 for the picture book biography of Snowflake Bentley written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated with Azarian’s distinctive woodcuts. In A Gardener’s Alphabet (2000) she celebrates the simple joys of gardening in Vermont. Born in Washington D.C.in 1940, Azarian spent her childhood on a small farm in Virginia. After graduating from college she moved to Vermont and lived on a subsistence hill farm. She and her partner, Tom gardened, made maple syrup, and kept cows, chickens, sheep, horses and oxen. She now lives in Calais, Vermont and continues to depict the daily events of a rural life in her prints.
With her signature woodblock prints, the Caldecott medalist Mary Azarian invites readers into her own garden to discover its simple joys. Revealing the variety of life underground, the bright comfort of a greenhouse on a winter’s day, or the anticipation of starting seeds indoors in early spring, this striking alphabet book reminds us that gardens are perhaps our best way to live closer to the land and to the rhythm of the seasons.
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