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Thyra Heder


Born
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
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Genre
Children's


Thyra Heder is a writer and illustrator of picture books for children, and a storyboard and concept artist for film, television, fashion and architecture. In 2015 she was a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow and awarded the San Francisco Film Society Hearst Grant along with director, Brent Green. Her four picture books, Fraidyzoo, The Bear Report and Alfie: (The Turtle That Disappeared), and How Do You Dance? with Abrams Books for Young Readers have all received critical acclaim and international translation. In 2018, Alfie was awarded an E.B. White Read Aloud Honor by the Association of Booksellers for Children. She was born and raised in Cambridge, MA in a family of artists, and graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art Semiotics with a ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 4,322 ratings · 918 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors
Alfie
4.36 avg rating — 1,175 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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Fraidyzoo: A Picture Book
4.09 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions
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The Bear Report
4.22 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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How Do You Dance?: A Pictur...
3.99 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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Sal Boat:
3.94 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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Nose to Nose
4.16 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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