Photo taken at Bear Pond Books in one of her first readings there.
Photo from Mary's website: http://www.maryazarian.com/
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 lives in Calais, Vermont and continues to depict the daily events of a rural life in her prints.