Demi - Author and Illustrator

• Biography
• Titles written and/or illustrated by Demi

Biography

Charlotte Demi Hunt Huang was born in Cambridge Massachusetts and began drawing at an early age. By the age of two she was already drawing on walls and other surfaces. Her mother was a well known artist who mainly worked in watercolors. Demi loved the art studio with its paint smells, the beautiful watercolors, the brushes, paper, canvas and board. Her father was an architect and also had connections to the theater. Demi and her family enjoyed the arts and having friends that were artists.

At the Instituto Allende in Mexico Demi studied murals, weaving, ceramics, painting and drawing. From there she went to Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. A Fullbright scholarship took her to India. After returning to the United States she published the first of many books, a collection of East Indian Folk Tales.

Demi is married to Tze-si Jesse Huang, and has listened to him tell the folk tales and fables that he had heard as a child. The Empty Pot and the Magic Boat are two of her books that came about through his retelling.

The Empty Pot was selected by former First Lady Barbara Bush in 1990 as one of the books to be read on the ABC Radio Network Program Mrs. Bush's Story Time, sponsored by the Children's Literacy Initiative. Demi represented the United States at the First International Children's Book Conference in Beijing, China in 1992.

In her art Demi uses the four Chinese treasures - paintbrush, ink, inkstone and paper. She believes that capturing life on paper is magic.

Source: Publicity packet provided by Henry Holt, Inc.

Some Titles written and/or illustrated by Demi

Buddha Stories Demi's Dragon's and Fantastic Creatures Demi's Secret Garden Dragon's Tale and Other Animal Fables Empty Pot Firebird Grass Sandals, by Dawnine Spicak In the Eyes of the Cat Magic Gold Fish: A Russian Folktale Magic Tapestry: A Chinese Folktale One Grain of Rice Stonecutter

Demi visited the Baltimore County Public Library on March 31 and April 1, 1998

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