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((Short description|German-American writer and illustrator (1945–2024)))
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'''Petra Mathers''' (((nee)) '''Tollens'''; March 25, 1945 – February 6, 2024) was a German-born American writer and illustrator of children's [[picture books]].<ref>((cite web |title=Obituary: Petra Mathers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/94461-obituary-petra-mathers.html |website=Publishers Weekly |access-date=28 February 2024))</ref>

==Life and work==
Petra Mathers was born in [[Todtmoos]], [[Waldshut (district)|Waldshut]] in the [[Black Forest]] in Germany on March 25, 1945, at the end of the second World War.<ref name="nytobit" /> Instead of University, she opted for a three year apprenticeship in the book business.  "Wanting to see the world", she and her husband came to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon.  Working first as a waitress, then in a children's bookstore, she started painting by making pictures for her son's room.  In time she showed in galleries in Oregon and Washington.  In 1983, she got her first job illustrating a children's book for Harper & Row, and in 1985 she wrote and illustrated the first book of her own.  She has illustrated over 40 books, 12 of which she also wrote.  

Mathers lived in [[Astoria, Oregon]] with her husband, author and photographer Michael Mathers, who she married in 1980.<ref name="nytobit" /> Petra and Michael died by suicide at their home on February 6, 2024. She was 78.<ref name="nytobit">((cite web|title=Petra Mathers, Author Whose Children's Stories Soared, Dies at 78|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/books/petra-mathers-dead.html|last=Green|first=Penelope|date=March 9, 2024|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 9, 2024))</ref><ref>((cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/94461-obituary-petra-mathers.html | title=Obituary: Petra Mathers ))</ref>

==Style==
Mathers was a self-taught artist and has a very distinct artistic style. Critic H. Nichols B. Clark describes her formal aesthetic, explaining that Mathers "[creates] simplified forms that comprise flat shapes. She assembles a carefully articulated formal arrangement whose visual dynamics are as integral to the production as the pictorial narrative."<ref>Hearn, Michael Patrick , Trinkett Clark, and H. Nichols B. Clark (1996). ''Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration'', p. 114. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, CO.</ref> Linnea Hendricks explains that Mathers' picturebooks "combine a flat, naive, folklike style with wit and a strong sense of design" and are "praised for their freshness, originality, subtlety, and genuine feeling."<ref>((cite web|url=http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/petra/interview.jsp |title=ECLIPSE :: Petra Mathers |accessdate=April 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305112657/http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/petra/interview.jsp |archivedate=March 5, 2010 ))</ref>

==Awards and honors==
Petra Mathers' work has earned much acclaim, including the following accolades:<ref>((cite web|url=http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/petra/biography.jsp |title=ECLIPSE :: Petra Mathers |accessdate=April 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722003346/http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/petra/biography.jsp |archivedate=July 22, 2010 ))</ref>

*1985—Ezra Jack Keats Award <ref>((cite web|url=http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=66 |title=The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation |website=Ezra-jack-keats.org |date= |accessdate=2016-04-28))</ref> for ''Maria Theresa''
*1986—New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year for ''Molly's New Washing Machine'' (by Laura Geringer).
*1988—New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year for ''Theodor and Mr. Balbini''.
*1990—New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year for ''I'm Flying'' (by Alan Wade).
*1991—Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for ''Sophie and Lou''.
*1995—Society of Illustrators Silver Medal:<ref>((cite web|url=http://societyillustrators.org/museum/2009OA.cms |title=Society of Illustrators |accessdate=April 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328011632/http://societyillustrators.org/museum/2009OA.cms |archivedate=March 28, 2010 ))</ref> for ''Kisses from Rosa''.
*1999—New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year for ''Lottie's New Friend''.
*1999—Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Illustration for ''Lottie's New Friend''.
*1999—Society of Illustrators Silver Medal for ''Lottie's New Friend''.

==References==
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==External links==
((Portal |Children's literature |Visual arts ))
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929015512/http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/mai_mathers_petra.html Children's Literature Independent Information and Reviews]
* ((LCAuth|n82110944|Petra Mathers|40|ue))

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