Tana Hoban

Tana Hoban was born in Philadelphia to Jeanette (Dimmerman) Hoban and Abraham T. Hoban, who were immigrants from Russia. She was the older sister of Freeda Hoban Ellis and children's book author and illustrator Russell Hoban . In 1938, she graduated from the School of Design for Women, now Moore College of Art and Design. That same year, she earned a fellowship to travel and study painting in Europe. == Career ==

Back in the U.S. she married photographer Edward E. Gallob in 1939 (they divorced in 1982) and taught herself photography. Hoban spent the last two decades of her life in Paris with her second husband, John G. Morris, a photo editor at The New York Times. She died in 2006 at a hospice in Louveciennes, France, outside Paris. Some of Hoban's papers are archived at the University of Minnesota while other pieces are the University of Southern Mississippi. ==Selected works==

• A, B, See! (1982, out of print) • All About Where (1991) • Animal, vegetable, or mineral? (1995) • 'Big Ones, Little Ones' (1976, out of print) • Black on White (1993) • Black & White (2007) • "Black White" (2017) • ''A Children's Zoo'' (1985) • "Circles, Triangles, and squares" (1974) • "Colors Everywhere" (1995) • Construction Zone (1997) • "Count and See" (1972) • Cubes, Cones, Cylinders & Spheres (2000) • Dig, Drill, Dump, Fill (1975, out of print) • Dots, Spots, Speckles, and Stripes (1987, out of print) • Exactly the Opposite (1990) • I Read Signs (1983) • I Read Symbols (1983) • I Walk and Read (1984, out of print) • "I Wonder" (1999) • Is It Larger? Is It Smaller? (1985) • Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? (1978) • Is It Rough? Is It Smooth? Is It Shiny? (1984) • "Just Look" (1996) • "Let's Count" (1999) • "Look Again" (1971) • Look! Look! Look! (1988. out of print) • "Look Up, Look Down" (1992) • "More, Fewer, Less" (1998) • More Than One (1981, out of print) • Of Colors and Things (1989) • One Little Kitten (1979) • 1, 2, 3 (1985, out of print) • "Over, Under & Through" (1973) • Panda, Panda (1986, out of print) • Push, Pull, Empty, Full; A Book of Opposites (1972) • Red, Blue, Yellow Shoe (1986, out of print) • Round & Round & Round (1983, out of print) • Shadows and Reflections (1990) • "Shapes and Things" (1970) • Shapes, Shapes, Shapes (1986) • "So Many Circles, So Many Squares (1998) • "Spirals, Curves, Fanshapes & Lines" (1992) • Take Another Look (1981, out of print) • 26 Letters and 99 Cents (1987) • "What Is It?" (1985) • What Is That? (1994) • "Where Is It?" (1974) • White on Black (1993) • "Who Are They?" (1994) ==Awards==

• Caldecott Honor, "One Little Kitten" ==References==