About Ilse Plume
Born 1944. Ilse Plume is an illustrator and docent.
Ilse Plume is an illustrator of children's books. Her first book, The Bremen Town Musicians, was a Caldecott Honor book for 1981. She is also a teacher of Children's Book Illustration at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Who is Ilse Plume?
American children's illustrators
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Ilse Plume was born on 5 November 1944 in Dresden.
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Ilse Plume is an illustrator and docent.
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