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Josée Masse
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For as long as she can remember, Josée Masse has been drawing. Her father was a painter and she remembers painting with him in his studio. After studying graphic arts in Montreal, she worked as a graphic designer for 3 years before beginning her career as an illustrator. Josée’s strong sense of concept and design shows itself in her artwork. She loves illustrating books for children and enjoys the challenge of solving problems for her clients who have difficult concepts to convey. Josée now lives near Montreal in the country where she enjoys many hours in her studio. |
Client List
Bloomsbury USA
Barefoot Books
Kids Can Press
The McKinsey Quarterly
Holt Reinhart
Middlebury College
Scholastic
Biotec World
Northeastern University School of Law
Harcourt
Rigby
Brown Publishing
Kids Can Press
Pearson Education
Houghton Mifflin
The Gazette of Montreal
Alberta Venture
L'Actualité
Quebec Science
Dogs in Canada
Diabetes News
Ireland and Associates
Artist News
IP Law & Business
Awards
The Princess Who Had Almost Everything: Tundra's Very Best of the Fall Picture Books,
selected by Kirkus, 2008.
Motherbridge of Love: TIME Magazine's Top 10 Children's Books, 2007.
Reviews
Motherbridge of Love, illustrated by Josée Masse, published by Barefoot Books, 2007: "Masse (Goodnight, Sweet Pig) echoes this dreamy lyricism with gently surreal illustrations rendered in texture like shot silk. Her treatment of the birth mother merits particular interest: on some spreads, she portrays the woman relatively realistically, carrying water in her village or gazing down at her pregnant belly. But in other spreads, the woman is transformed into a benevolent spirit; readers will notice her Asian features in the moon that shines down on the adoptive mother and child, and even in the mountain that the pair traverse during a hike or in a dramatic sky. It's a risky artistic choice, but Masse pulls it off in an understated way that offers comfort and encouragement to parents and children." Publishers Weekly "Masse's soothing paintings, predominantly in blues and greens, are exceptional, and infuse this lyrical poem with a sweet tenderness." School Library Journal Mousie Love, illustrated by Josée Masse, published by Bloomsbury USA 2009: "Masse’s images of the mice, dressed in quasi-nineteenth-century fashions, pop with bright warm colors even as their texture has an old-timey, slightly grainy texture." Booklist Mirror Mirror, illustrated by Josée Masse, published by Dutton 2010: The vibrant artwork is painterly yet unfussy and offers hints to the characters who are narrating the poems. School Library Journal (Starred Review) Matching the cleverness of the text, Masse’s deep-hued paintings create split images that reflect the twisted meaning of the irreverently witty poems and brilliantly employ artistic elements of form and shape—Cinderella’s clock on one side morphs to the moon on the other. A mustpurchase that will have readers marveling over a visual and verbal feast. Booklist (Starred Review) |
| Mirror Mirror (Dutton) Mousie Love (Bloomsbury USA) Christmas Cheer (Bloomsbury USA) La petite Princesse et le Prince (Éditions Imagine) Motherbridge of Love (Barefoot Books) Goodnight, Sweet Pig (Kids Can Press) La Princesse Qui Avait presque Tout (Dominique et Compagnie) |
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