Edward Frascino Explained

Edward Frascino is an American illustrator and author. He is perhaps best known for his illustrations in E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan.^[1]

Biography

Frascino is the son of Mario and Rose Frascino. He is of Albanian and Italian descent.

He attended Parsons School of Design. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951 to 1953.

His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker in a regular series as well as in Punch, Saturday Review, and The New York Times.

Selected works

As author and illustrator

• Book: Eddie Spaghetti. HarperCollins. 1978. 9780060219086. ^{[2] [3]}
• Book: Eddie Spaghetti on the Homefront. registration. HarperCollins. 1983. 9780060218942. ^[4]
• Book: My Cousin the King. registration. Prentice Hall. 1985. 9780136084235.
• Book: Nanny Noony and the Magic Spell. Pippin Press. 1988. 9780945912002. ^[5]
• Book: Nanny Noony and the Dust Queen. Pippin Press. 1990. 9780945912095.

As author

• Book: Mudibo Piwang. Catherine. Visit from the Leopard: Memories of a Ugandan Childhood. Frascino. Edward. Pippin Press. Illustrated by James Roberts. 2000. 9780945912279.

As illustrator

• Book: Stolz, Mary. Say Something. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1968. 9780060211592.
• Book: Stolz, Mary. The Dragons of the Queen. registration. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1969. 9780060259730.
• Book: Stolz, Mary. The Story Of A Singular Hen And Her Peculiar Children. Harper. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1969. 9780060260385.
• Book: Sharmat, Marjorie W.. Gladys Told Me to Meet Her Here. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1970. 9780060255503. ^[6]
• Book: White, E.B.. The Trumpet of the Swan. registration. Harper & Row. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1970. 9780060263973.
• Book: Andersen, Hans Christian. The Little Mermaid. registration. Harper. Translated by Eva Le Gallienne; illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1971. 9780060237837.
• Book: Yessayan Cretan, Gladys. A Hole, a Box, and a Stick. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1972. 9780688416287.
• Book: Hart, Carole. Delilah. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1973. 9780060222369.
• Book: Barry, Robert E.. Snowman's Secret. MacMillan. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1975. 9780027083903.
• Book: Gordon, Shirley. Crystal Is the New Girl. registration. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1976. 9780060221126.
• Book: Gordon, Shirley. Crystal Is My Friend. registration. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1978. 9780060221126.
• Book: Robison, Nancy L.. UFO Kidnap!. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1978. 9780688518530.
• Book: Gray, Nigel. It'll All Come Out in the Wash. registration. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1979. 9780060220679.
• Book: Robison, Nancy. Space Hijack!. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1979. 9780688418977.
• Book: Gordon, Shirley. Me and the Bad Guys. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1980. 9780060221164.
• Book: Robison, Nancy. Izoo. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1980. 9780688419349.
• Book: Gordon, Shirley. Happy Birthday, Crystal. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1981. 9780060220068.
• Book: Keller, Charles. Oh, Brother!: Family Jokes. Prentice Hall. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1982. 9780136333050.
• Book: Warren, William E.. The Graveyard and Other Not-So-Scary Stories. Prentice Hall. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1984. 9780133636239.
• Book: Warren, William E.. The Thing in the Swamp and More Not-So-Scary Stories. Prentice Hall. Illustrator by Edward Frascino. 1984. 9780139171963.
• Book: Warren, William E.. Footsteps in the Fog: Still More Not-So-Scary Stories. Prentice Hall. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1985. 9780133248074.
• Book: Kipling, Rudyard. The Elephant's Child. Prentice Hall. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1987. 9780132736404.
• Book: Keller, Charles. Count Draculations! Monster Riddles. Prentice Hall. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1986. 9780131836419.
• Book: Gordon, Shirley. Crystal's Christmas Carol. registration. HarperCollins. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1989. 9780060221270.
• Book: Keller, Charles. King Henry the Ape: Animal Jokes. registration. Pippin Press. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1989. 9780945912088.
• Book: Slaughter, Hope. Windmill Hill. Pippin Press. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1993. 978-0945912217.
• Book: Marquis, Don. Archyology. UPNE. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1996. 9780874517453.
• Book: Marquis, Don. Archyology II (the Final Dig): The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel. registration. University Press of New England. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. 1998. 9780874518535.

As contributor

• Book: The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons. Knopf. 1993. 9780679430681.
• Book: The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons. John Wiley & Sons. 2012. 9781118362358. Mankoff. Robert.
• Book: The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons. John Wiley & Sons. 2012. 9781118342046. Mankoff. Robert.

Other

• Book: Avocado Is Not Your Color: And Other Scenes of Married Bliss. registration. Penguin. 1983. 9780140063646.

References

1. 2011-06-09. Edward Frascino. Contemporary Authors. Gale.
2. Book: Holtze, Sally Holmes. Fifth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators. 1983. H.W. Wilson Company. 978-0-8242-0694-9. en.
3. Web site: Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction. Kirkus Reviews. en. 2020-04-04.
4. Web site: Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction. Kirkus Reviews. en. 2020-04-04.
5. Web site: Children's Book Review: Nanny Noony and the Magic Spell by Edward Frascino, Author Pippin Press $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-945912-00-2. PublishersWeekly.com. January 1988 . en. 2020-04-03.
6. Web site: Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction. Kirkus Reviews. en. 2020-04-04.

Further reading

News: Frascino. Edward. Autobiography Series. 1990. Something About the Author. Nakamura. Joyce. Gale.