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Original art available at Storyopolis

Videos & Cassettes from Live Oak Media

Recent book:
Moo Cow Kaboom! (HarperCollins, 2003) at amazon.com.

I recently illustrated Even Kids Get The Blues for Re-Bop Records.

Thacher Hurd is the artist and author of such favorite picture books as Mama Don't Allow, Mystery on the Docks and Art Dog. Thacher began his artistic career in fine art before authoring and illustrating children's books. His entertaining stories engage a wide range of topics from the rhythm of jazz music in Mama Don't Allow (1982) to alien bovine abduction in Moo Cow Kaboom (2003). Thacher's most popular titles include Art Dog (1997), about a super-hero canine museum security guard, and Zoom City(1998) in which dogs hurtle through city streets in high-powered automobiles.

Links to a couple of articles about Thacher and his work:

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

More recent article from Scripps Howard News Service

The Oakland Library Mural is finished! See below...

Oakland Tribune article ...... and photos

Sleepy Cadillac: A Bedtime Drive A starred review in Publisher's Weekly called it "Pleasingly soporific"(whatever that means), and there is a good review in the May 15th 2005 New York Times Book Review. Click on the Amazon link below to see more reviews.

Available at Amazon.com