About Cynthia Jabar

Picture Book Bibliography

Born and raised in Maine,  Cynthia attributes her love of making books to her 4th grade teacher,  Miss Keniston.  A class book making project of illustrated poems created a lasting love for making,  reading and collecting books.  So it was no surprise that while attending Simmons College to study biology, she often found herself making elaborately illustrated lab notebooks.  With encouragement from a drawing professor, she attended The Rhode Island School Of Design and The University of Iowa where she studied illustration and the history of the book.

While attending college,  she wrote and illustrated her first picture books for Little Brown & Company: Party Day,  Alice Ann Gets Ready For School, Bored Blue Think What You Can do and Shimmy Shake Earthquake Don't Forget To Dance Poems.  Since then she has illustrated over 20 picture books, created best selling characters for children's products,  designed book jackets,  created digital storytelling experiences with & for kids, and curated picture book illustration shows for HINGE Gallery and SCBWI.

As a member of the Maine Humanities Council project advisory board,  Cynthia helped shape the Born To Read early literacy initiative developed to promote tolerance and diversity among young children. 

She visits schools and volunteers her time empowering kids to discover their voices and tell their own stories as a way of passing on the love of book making Miss Keniston inspired in her, one #NEWSTORY at a time.

Candlewick Press

One Frog Sang, written by Shirley Parenteau, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

How Many, How Many, How Many, written by Rick Walton, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

No Hickory, No Dickory, No Dock, written by John Agard & Grace Nichols, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

The Big Meow, written by Elizabeth Spires, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Raising Readers, A Treasury Of Tales From Maine, with the Libra Foundation

Raising Readers, A Collection Of  Stories From Maine, with The Libra Foundation

Math's Together, An Anthology of Math Concepts, with Walker Books London

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

The Sound of Day, The Sound of Night, written by Mary O'Neill, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Grace For An Island Meal, written by Rachel Field, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Harper Collins Publishers

The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash, written by Irene O'Garden, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

MATHSTART SERIES Written By Stuart Murphy

Tally O'Malley, written by Stuart Murphy, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, Mathstart Series: Tallying, NCTM Standards: Communication, Numbers & Operations, Problem Solving

Game Time! written by Stuart Murphy, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, Mathstart Series: Level 3, Time, NCTM Standards: Communication, Measurements

The Sundae Scoop, written by Stuart Murphy, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, Mathstart Series 2: Combinational, NCTM Standards: Algebra, Connections, Data Analysis

The Greatest Gymnast Of All, written by Stuart Murphy, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, Mathstart Series: Opposites, NCTM Standards: Communication, Geometry

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rain Song, written by Lezlie Evans, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Snow Dance, written by Lezlie Evans, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

WOW! It Sure Is Good To Be You, written & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Wont You Come & Play With Me? written by Mary Lee Donovan, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Girl Power 5 Minute Stories, Anthology

Scholastic Paperbacks

The Frog Who Wanted To Be A Singer, written by Linda Goss & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

One Frog Sang, written by Shirley Parenteau & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Rain Song, written by Lezlie Evans, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Snow Dance, written by Lezlie Evans, illustrated by Cynthia Jabar

Little Brown & Company

My first publisher was Little Brown & Company.  I worked with Melanie Kroupa and Megan Tingley back in the day in Boston. 

I learned so much about how to pace a picture book & visual storytelling.  THANK YOU!

Party Day! written & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, OOP

Bored Blue! Think What You can Do, written & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, OOP

Alice Ann Gets Ready For School, written & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, OOP

Shimmy Sake Earthquake Don't Forget To Dance Poems collected & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, OOP

A Girls Guide To Life written by Catherine Dee & illustrated by Cynthia Jabar, OOP

Thanks For Reading!