Thomas Locker

Thomas Locker (1937 - March 9, 2012) was an American author and painter. He was born in New York City and died in Albany, NY
Thomas Locker wrote many popular illustrated books for children & young adults. He also illustrated books for other popular writers such as Jean Craighead George. He once worked at Camp Catawba, a summer camp for boys.
Prior to taking up art and writing full-time, Locker taught at Franklin College and later at Shimer College.

• Water Dance
• Sky Tree
• Where the River Begins (Picture Puffins)
• Cloud Dance
• The Mare on the Hill (Picture Puffins)
• The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
• Home: A Journey through America
• Family Farm (Picture Puffins)
• Sailing with the Wind
• The Young Artist (Picture Puffins)
• To Climb a Waterfall
• Catskill Eagle
• Mountain Dance
• Walking With Henry: Based on the Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau
• John Muir: America's Naturalist
• Anna and the Bagpiper
• Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder
• The Land of Gray Wolf
• Miranda's Smile
• Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
• In Blue Mountains: An Artist's Return to America's First…
• Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley : Nature Poems Selected by…
• Hudson: The Story of a River
• The Ice Horse
• Thomas Locker; the new American realism
• Thomas Locker : American landscapes : [exhibition] September 16-October 4,…
• The man who paints nature
• Rip vanWinkle
• American Landscapes