MEDIA | Ashley Bryan Center

Ashley Bryan stands among the lupines growing near his home on the Maine island of Islesford.
Photo by Peter Ralston.

Ashley at ABSchool_photo by Leslie Tryon

Ashley Bryan sits on the steps of the Cranberry Isles two-room schoolhouse named for him in 2012.
Photo by Leslie Tryon.

Ashley Bryan holds his print, “Sally Tea Cup” created for an upcoming compendium volume published by the London Children’s Museum.
Photo by Henry Isaacs.

Download inaugural press release:

Ashley Bryan Center opens with Celebratory Exhibit on Maine Island

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Links

Watch a short feature recently aired on WABI-TV5 our local news and CBS affiliate

Ashley’s newest book, Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something From Everything, is featured in the summer exhibit. Enjoy the starred reviews:

Kirkus Reviews
Publisher’s Weekly

Learn more about Ashley Bryan’s books published by Simon & Schuster

View a video clip of Ashley reading Beautiful Blackbird, a preview of a full-length documentary in progress

Read about the naming of the Ashley Bryan School

Read a beautiful description of Ashley Bryan in The Horn Book by his beloved Atheneum editor, Caitlyn Dlouhy at Simon and Schuster

Read the 2008 press release about Ashley being named a New York City Public Library Lion with Salmon Rushdie, Edward Albee and Nora Ephron

Read the 2009 press release about Ashley winning the prestigious American Library Association’s 2009 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

Read a short interview with Ashley in Publishers Weekly from June, 2014

Listen to interviews with Ashley on American Public Media:
I am Going to Sing
An Artist at D Day