Ashley Wolff Curriculum Vitae
Education: BFA, Rhode Island School of Design 1979
Publications
Books written and illustrated
A Year of Birds
(Dodd Mead) 1984
Only the Cat Saw
(Dodd Mead) 1985
A Year of Beasts
(EP Dutton) 1986
Come With Me
(EP Dutton) 1990
Stella and Roy
(EP Dutton) 1993
Stella and Roy Go Camping
(Yosemite Association) 1999
Me Baby You Baby
(E P Dutton) 2005
When Lucy Goes Out Walking
(Henry Holt) 2008
I Call My Grandma Nana
I Call My Grandpa Papa
(Tricycle) 2010
Baby Bear Sees Blue
(Beach Lane Books/Simon&Schuster) 2012
Baby Bear Counts One
(Beach Lane Books/Simon&Schuster) 2013
Books illustrated
The Bells of London
Traditional rhyme (Dodd Mead) 1984
Block City
Robert Louis Stevenson (EP Dutton) 1988
Who is Coming to Our House?
Joseph Slate (Putnam) 1988
Baby Beluga
Raffi (Crown) 1990
I Love My Mommy Because
I Love My Daddy Because
Laurel Porter Gaylord (EP Dutton) 1991
A Garden Alphabet
Isabel Wilner (EP Dutton) 1991
Goody O’Grumpity
Carol Ryrie Brink (North South) 1994
How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet
Gerald Hausman (Harper Collins) 1995
Little Donkey Close Your Eyes
Margaret Wise Brown (Harper Collins 1995
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 1996
A String of Beads
Marguerette Reid (EP Dutton) 1997
Home Sweet Home
Jean Marzollo (Harper Collins) 1997
Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 1998
Doctor Bird
Gerald Hausman (Philomel) 1998
Splish Splash
Sarah Weeks (Harper Collins) 1999
Some Things Go Together
Charlotte Zolotow (Harper Collins) 1999
Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 2000
Each Living Thing
Joanne Ryder (Gulliver Books/Harcourt) 2000
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?
Philemon Sturges/Bonnie Lass (Little Brown) 2000
Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 2001
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop
Lisa Schulman (Putnam) 2002
My Somebody Special
Sarah Weeks (Harcourt) 2002
Miss Bindergarten Plans a Circus with Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 2002
De Colores
Traditional (Little Brown) 2003
She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain
Philemon Sturges (Little Brown) 2004
Los Pollitos Dicen
Traditional (Little Brown) 2005
Home to Me, Home to You
Jennifer Ericsson (Little Brown) 2005
Miss Bindergarten Has a Wild Day in Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 2005
The Wild Little Horse
Rita Gray (EP Dutton) 2005
Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the Last Day of Kindergarten
Joseph Slate (E P Dutton) 2006
Mama’s Milk
Michael Ross (Tricycle Press) 2007
The Pen That Pa Built
David Edwards (Tricycle Press) 2007
The 12 Days of Christmas/
A Pinata for the Pinon Tree
Philemon Sturges (Little Brown) 2007
Compost Stew
Mary McKenna Siddals (Tricycle Press) 2010
Miss Bindergarten and the Secret Bag
Joseph Slate (Penguin Young Readers Level 2) 2013
Anthologies
Children’s Book Illustration and Design
Julie Cummins, editor (Library of Applied Design) 1992
Raffi’s Top 10 Songs to Read
Raffi (Crown) 1995
Purr… Children’s Book Illustrators Brag About Their Cats
Michael J. Rosen, editor (Harcourt Brace)
1996 The Art of Reading: Celebrating the 40th anniversary of RIF
(Dutton Books) 2005
Robert’s Snow/ Artist’s Snowflakes for Cancer’s Cure
Grace Lin & Robert Mercer (Viking) 2005
The Art of Reading 2008 Calendar (May) 2008
Commissioned Artwork
I have been commissioned to create cover and interior artwork for numerous textbook projects by publishers that include Houghton Mifflin, Scott Foresman, D.C. Heath, Peaceable Kingdom Press and Caedmon. I’ve illustrated covers and interior pages for Ladybug and Spider Magazines.
University Teaching
Hollins University Certificate in Children’s Book Illustration
Roanoke, VA Summer 2011-Present
Hollins University Children’s Literature Summer MFA Program
Roanoke, Virginia Summer 2008
Advanced Children’s Book Illustration UC Berkeley Extension
Spring 2003
Children’s Book Illustration UC Berkeley Extension
Spring 2002
Conference speeches 1984-present (Selected)
California Reading Association Conferences, Various California cities
California School Library Association Conferences, Various California cities
Northern California Kindergarten and Conference Southern California Kindergarten Conferences, Santa Clara, and Pasadena, California
Colorado Kindergarten Conference Denver, Colorado
I Teach K and I Teach 1st conferences in Florida, Illinois, California
Plum Creek Literacy Festival Seward, Nebraska
Mazza Summer Institute Findlay, Ohio
Treehouse Children’s Museum Ogden, Utah
Charlotte Huck Literary Festival, Redlands, California
Author day visits 1984-present
I have presented thousands of assemblies to students and adults of all ages in schools and public libraries in
California, Illinois, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
Gallery and Museum Shows (selected)
- Original Art Show
Fall, 2012,1994,1993
Society of Illustrators Gallery, New York, New York
- Goodnight, Hush
Summer 2011
wirh Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd, Ruth Sanderson, Tomie De Paola, and Don Freeman
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
- Once Upon a Time in Bernal
March-April, 2010
with Jane Wattenberg, Remy Charlip, Sue Redding, and Molly Bang
Inclusions Gallery San Francisco, California
- Annual Children’s Book Illustrators Exhibitions
December-February 1993, 2001,2011
The Sun Gallery, Hayward, California
- Once Upon a Book: The Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration
October-December 2010
with Carl Angel, Lisa Brown, David Carter, Elisha Cooper, Rachel Dillon, Tim Egan, Thacher Hurd, Elisa Kleven, Jim La Marche, Marissa Moss, Daniel San Souci, Jane Wattenberg
Danville Village Theater Gallery Danville, California
- Then and Now Shows
Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, California
- Three Illustrators: Works by Published Bay Area Artists
November/December 1999
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
- Picture the Words: Children’s Book Illustrations
October-November, 1999
The Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon
- Once Upon a Time in Vermont: the Children’s Book Illustrations of Ashley Wolff
July-August, 1994
Walter Cerf Gallery at The Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, Vermont
- Lasting Impressions: original Art from Contemporary Children’s Books
December -January, 1988
Hurlburt Gallery, Greenwich Library
Greenwich, Connecticut