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Article: First Book and ME Make a Difference.(Mary Engelbreit Studios)
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- Gifts & Decorative Accessories
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- August 1, 2001
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Artist Mary Engelbreit forms a partnership with a national charitable organization to distribute books to children.
As a child, artist and entrepreneur Mary Engelbreit was inspired by reading. As soon as she was old enough to hold a pencil, she spent hours recreating the characters and scenes from the classic storybooks that her mother read to her. In fact, it was through her early experiences with the storybook illustrations of artists like Johnny Gruelle and Jessie Wilcox Smith that Engelbreit developed her distinctive style.
Nowadays, Engelbreit is a successful businesswoman with a chain of retail stores, an award-winning magazine, 150 book titles in ...