Lamonica, Lisa

Lisa LaMonica is an author and illustrator in upstate New York who has received awards for her artwork. She was nominated for Artist of the Year in 2002 by the Columbia County Council on the Arts. Lisa teaches art privately, at her local community college, and at the Hudson Youth Department. She has attended the Hudson Children's Book Festival, the largest of its kind in the Northeast, every year since its inception. Many of this book's images are from the Library of Congress, Historic Hudson, the Hudson Area Library History Room, and private contributors.