Her grandchildren appear in several of her books. She is also considered one of the first white American illustrators (after Ezra Jack Keats) to incorporate black characters into her illustrations regularly, as a matter of principle, in large part triggered by her daughter's marriage to a man from Cameroon. For example, in one scene in Saint George and the Dragon, the dragon's tail stretches into the border artwork of the next page. Many of her illustrations can be quite complex. She was the first art director of Cricket Magazine, from 1973 to 1979, and contributed illustrations regularly until her death. For about the last decade of her life, her romantic partner was teacher Jean K. Trina lived for some time with children's writer and editor Barbara Rogasky (with whom she collaborated on several projects). In 1963, the couple's daughter, Katrin Tchana ( née Hyman), was born, but in 1968, they divorced, and Trina and Katrin moved to Lyme, New Hampshire. The couple then moved to Stockholm, Sweden, for two years, where Trina studied at the Konstfackskolan (Swedish State Art School) and illustrated her first children's book, titled Toffe och den lilla bilen ( Toffe and the Little Car). She graduated from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1960. She enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts) in 1956, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1959 after marrying Harris Hyman, a mathematician and engineer. Her favorite story as a child was Little Red Riding Hood, and she spent an entire year of her childhood wearing a red cape. Schart, she grew up in a rural area of Pennsylvania and learned to read and draw at an early age.

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