Pat Cummings (illustrator)

**Patricia Marie Cummings** (an haife ta a ranar 9 ga Nuwamba, 1950) marubuciya ce 'yar Amurka kuma mai zane-zanen littattafan yara.

## Rayuwa ta farko
Mahaifin Cummings yana cikin rundunar soja, kuma iyalinta suna zaune a wurare daban-daban daga Turai zuwa Asiya lokacin da take girma. Ta tuna "Ni da ɗan'uwana maza da mata koyaushe 'sabbin yara ne', amma na gano cewa fasaha ta taimaka mini in san abokan karatuna."  Tun tana ƙarama, iyayenta suna karanta musu labarai game da tatsuniyoyi, wanda hakan ya ƙara mata kwarin gwiwa yayin da take binciken gidajen sarauta a Kogin Rhine da ƙauyuka a Okinawa. 

Ta halarci Cibiyar Pratt da ke birnin New York.  Bayan kammala karatunta, Cummings ta fara aiki a matsayin mai zaman kansa ga abokan hulɗar edita da talla kafin ta mayar da hankali kawai kan littattafan yara.

## Sana'a
Cummings ita ce ta ƙirƙiri littattafai sama da 30 ga yara, ciki har da taken da suka lashe kyautar Horn Book-Boston Globe Award da kuma kyautar Orbis Pictus Award don abubuwan da ba na almara ba. Ta lashe kyautar Coretta Scott King Award a shekarar 1984  saboda zane-zanen da ke cikin *[[My Mama Needs Me]] (* wanda Mildred Pitts Walter ya rubuta), kuma ta kasance ta ƙarshe a gasar *[[Just Us Women]]* (wanda Jeannette Caines ta rubuta) da *[[C.L.O.U.D.S.|CLOUDS]]*, waɗanda ta rubuta kuma ta zana.   A matsayinta na ɗaya daga cikin masu zane-zane na *[[Our Children Can Soar]]* ( Bloomsbury, 2009) ta sami kyautar NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Children .

Ta yi aiki a matsayin furodusa kuma marubuciya ga *Gullah Gullah Island*, wani shirin yara na Nickelodeon da kuma *Cover to Cover*, wani shirin talabijin na talabijin game da littattafan yara da kuma mutanen da suka ƙirƙira su.

Pat tana aiki a matsayin Sakatare na Ƙasa na Ƙungiyar Marubuta kuma tana zaune a cikin Boards of The Authors Guild Foundation, The Authors League Fund, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) da kuma Gidan Tarihi na Littafin Hoto na Eric Carle . Ita ma memba ce a Ƙungiyar Marubuta kuma tana koyar da zane-zanen littattafan yara a Pratt da Parsons, New School for Design . Manufar Pat ita ce shirya ɗalibai don aiki a littattafan yara. Tsoffin ɗalibanta da aka buga da kyau sun haɗa da Julian Hector, Hiroe Nakata, da David Ezra Stein, waɗanda suka karɓi kyautar girmamawa ta Caldecott ta 2011. Tana zaune a Brooklyn, New York tare da mijinta.

## Ayyuka
An rubuta "Trace" [HarperCollins] [Birnin New York | New York] 2019.

### An rubuta kuma an yi masa zane

* *Jimmy Lee Ya Yi Shi*, Lothrop ( New York, NY ), 1985.
* *GIRGIJE*, Lothrop ( New York, NY ), 1986. ( Kyautar Coretta Scott King, Mai Zane Mai Girmamawa 1987)
* *Tsaftace Ɗakinka, Harvey Moon*, Bradbury ( New York, NY ), 1991.
* *Littafin Tarihin Sansanin Petey Moroni*, Bradbury ( New York, NY ), 1992.
* *Purr*, HarperFestival ( New York, NY ), 1999.
* *Angel Baby*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 2000.
* *Ananse da Lizard*, Henry Holt ( New York, NY ), 2002.
* *Harvey Moon, Yaron Gidan Tarihi*, HarperCollins ( New York, NY ), 2008.

### An zana hoton

* Eloise Greenfield, *Labari Mai Daɗi*, Coward-McCann ( New York, NY ), 1977.
* Jeanette Caines, *Just Us Women*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 1982. *(* Kyautar Coretta Scott King Mai Zane-zane 1983)
* Mildred Pitts Walter, *My Mama Needs Me*, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, 1984. (Wanda ya lashe kyautar Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award 1984)
* Jeanette Caines, *Ciwon Sanyi*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 1986.
* Jeanette Caines, *I Need a Lunch Box*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 1988.
* Mary Stolz, *Storm in the Night*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 1988.
* Mildred Pitts Walter, *Mariah Loves Rock*, Bradbury ( New York, NY ), 1988.
* Joyce Durham Barrett, *Willie's Not the Hugging Kind*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 1989.
* Mildred Pitts Walter, *Two and Too Much*, Bradbury ( New York, NY ), 1990.
* Mary Stolz, *Go Fish*, Harper ( New York, NY ), 1991.
* Margaret Read MacDonald, *Pickin' Peas*, HarperCollins ( New York, NY ), 1998.
* Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, *Ranar Haihuwar Lulu*, Greenwillow ( New York, NY ), 2001.
* Elizabeth Winthrop, *An Squashed in the Middle*, Henry Holt ( New York, NY ), 2005.
* Michelle Cook, *<nowiki/>'Ya'yanmu Za Su Iya Tashi Sama*, Bloomsbury ( New York, NY ), 2012. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1599907836

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