The Nancy Patz Bookshop

Nancy Patz has written and illustrated numerous popular picture books, including PUMPERNICKEL TICKLE AND MEAN GREEN CHEESE, MOSES SUPPOSES HIS TOESES ARE ROSES, GINA FARINA AND THE PRINCE OF MINTZ and BABIES CAN’T EAT KIMCHEE!

WHO WAS THE WOMAN WHO WORE THE HAT? won the Sydney Taylor Award of The Association of Jewish Libraries and the Selectors’ Choice Award of the Children’s Book Council and The Council for the Social Studies, among other national awards.

18 STONES, with portraits by Nancy Patz and prose poems by Susan L. Roth, was first exhibited in the 2010 Jewish Museum of Maryland exhibit, Nancy Patz: Her Inward Eye.

Born in Baltimore, Patz attended public schools (Arlington, Garrison, and Forest Park) and Goucher College, graduating from Stanford University.  Her illustrations, paintings, drawings and prints have been regularly exhibited in Baltimore museums and galleries, and she lectures widely in schools and teachers’ groups on the art of the picture book.

Nancy Patz is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of 4 granddaughters and a grandson.

Published Works

• There's a Dragon in the Tree House, and He Won't Come Down!
• Artifacts, Drawings, and Essay,
• PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, 2014
• 18 Stones (with Susan L. Roth), 2011
• Babies Can’t Eat Kimchee! (with Susan L. Roth), 2007
• Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat?, 2003
• The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays (by Malka Drucker; illustrated by Nancy Patz), 1994
• To Annabella Pelican from Thomas Hippopotamus, 1991
• No Thumpin’, No Bumpin’, No Rumpus Tonight!, 1990
• Sarah Bear and Sweet Sidney, 1989
• Gina Farina and the Prince of Mintz, 1986
• Moses Supposes His Toeses Are Roses and 7 Other Silly Old Rhymes, 1983
• Nobody Knows I Have Delicate Toes, 1980
• Pumpernickel Tickle and Mean Green Cheese, 1978, 2000
• The Elephant With a Knot in His Trunk (With Dr. Stuart Sheer), 2017

 

 

 

 

I draw and paint to illustrate the books I write 

and in sketchbooks when I travel to faraway places. 

In recent years I’ve made my own sketchbooks. 

Why do I do this? And how do I do it?

How do I decide what to draw--and which pens and pencils to draw with?

This book aims to answer these questions and others. 

It’s also the story of my life. 

Patz renovated a compact porch and dense foliage into a well-lit art studio where she practices various drawing and painting methods.

Goucher College Library, Special Collections

The Nancy Patz Collection, donated to Goucher College in 2006, documents the professional life and art career of Baltimore-based, award-winning author and illustrator Nancy Patz. Since the 1978 publication of Pumpernickel Tickle and Mean Green Cheese, Patz has authored and/or illustrated ten children’s books and has become a highly sought-after speaker.

The collection includes manuscript drafts, source materials, preliminary studies and sketches, book dummies, artwork, galleys, page proofs, finished books, and related art produced after publication, such as post-production studies of specific book pages and fine art. Other records include correspondence,fan mail, publicity, reviews, magazine commissions, art assignments, promotional materials, scrapbooks, interviews, workshop materials, and lectures. 

The Nancy Patz Corner was established by an endowed gift from Nancy Patz to preserve and make available these original resources and to support programming, exhibits, teaching, and research using the collection.

Exhibitions

Nancy Patz: Her Inward Eye

Jewish Museum of Maryland

April 18 - August 1, 2010

An original exhibition featuring the work of Baltimore author and illustrator Nancy Patz. The exhibition, Nancy Patz: Her Inward Eye, includes three series of Patz’s drawings, paintings, prints and collages that bring to life the artist’s personal memories and the imagined lives of people she has never known.

 

The Artifacts Drawing

Goucher College

September 14 - December 5, 2014

The Friends of the Goucher College Library, in partnership with the Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University, proudly invites you to view 125 evocative drawings of artifacts from international Holocaust museums by Baltimore-born, Goucher-educated author and artist Nancy Patz. 

 

 

Artifacts & Memory:

The Drawings of Nancy Patz

Anne Frank Center USA

March 11 - April 30, 2015

“Who was the woman who wore the hat I saw in the Jewish Museum? What was she like? Did she lie awake in the morning and watch, the way I did today, as dawn brushed light through the sky?”

Inspired by a hat she saw on display at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, author and illustrator Nancy Patz began a larger exploration of the power of artifacts and memory.

The result was Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat, a book she published in 2003 of moving pencil drawings, displayed here for the rst time in their entirety. Using subdued watercolors and old photographs, the drawings bring the reality of the Holocaust into sharp focus by trying to recreate the story of the woman – faceless, nameless – behind this hat.“Artifacts move us,” explains Patz. “Even when they tell us only mere fragments of the full history.”

On display with a selection of The Artifacts Drawings, her 2014 series exploring Holocaust artifacts and memory,The Anne Frank Center USA is proud to welcome this breakthrough exploration of history and everyday life.