Debra Frasier is the author and illustrator of many brilliant picture books including On the Day You Were Born and Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster. In addition to her well-known talks on creative process, Debra’s innovative "Book Events" build a community’s creativity through projects that start with a story. She has won numerous awards and has inspired thousands in schools across the United States.
She was born on April 3, 1953 in Florida where her grandmother was a schoolteacher. Debra, her brother, and two stepsisters grew up in a remote house that overlooked the Atlantic Ocean. They spent weekends and summers swimming and collecting treasures on the beach.
Even when she was quite young, Debra loved to create all kinds of artworks, often piecing together sculptures from bits of wood we’d found on our walks. Her mother says she used miles and miles of Scotch tape to make things.
In 1976, Debra graduated with a degree in design from Florida State University. She went on to attend Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where she made massive costume puppets as large as sixty feet long. Debra married and moved to Minnesota in 1984. Debra always liked to write letters and people often would ask her why she doesn’t write books. Her first one came unexpectedly as the result of a difficult pregnancy with her only child.
When things were at their darkest, she asked a nurse at the hospital to bring her some paper so she could write down all the things on our earth that would welcome her daughter if she would just get here. Later, after her safe arrival, Debra took this jumble of words and scribbled drawings and began to turn them into a book. Now she writes and illustrates books full-time. Visit debrafrasier.com to see how a parade of words can make you laugh, how the alphabet can transform a school carnival into a Word Event, or how a talking dog can make your heart swell!
Even when she was quite young, Debra loved to create all kinds of artworks, often piecing together sculptures from bits of wood we’d found on our walks. Her mother says she used miles and miles of Scotch tape to make things.
In 1976, Debra graduated with a degree in design from Florida State University. She went on to attend Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where she made massive costume puppets as large as sixty feet long. Debra married and moved to Minnesota in 1984. Debra always liked to write letters and people often would ask her why she doesn’t write books. Her first one came unexpectedly as the result of a difficult pregnancy with her only child.
When things were at their darkest, she asked a nurse at the hospital to bring her some paper so she could write down all the things on our earth that would welcome her daughter if she would just get here. Later, after her safe arrival, Debra took this jumble of words and scribbled drawings and began to turn them into a book. Now she writes and illustrates books full-time. Visit debrafrasier.com to see how a parade of words can make you laugh, how the alphabet can transform a school carnival into a Word Event, or how a talking dog can make your heart swell!
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