Wendell Minor

Ringling College of Art and Design Illustration Alumni 1966

Wendell Minor

Alumni Illustration '66

Minor’s children’s books reflect his love for the land and environment. Illustrating books for naturalist authors Jean Craighead George and Diane Siebert, among others, he approaches his art by researching and experiencing each environment he illustrates. His travels have taken him from the tropical Everglades of Florida to Barrow, Alaska in the Arctic Circle, from the Midwest to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest, and throughout the United States. In addition to picture books, Minor has created cover art and interior illustrations for novels for young people, including Jean Craighead George’s Julie and Julie’s Wolf Pack, and redesigned the cover for the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Newbery award-winning Julie of the Wolves. He has also authored several of his own books, and in 2005, Christmas Tree!, his first collaboration with his wife and business partner, Florence, was published.