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Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator...
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Brian Selznick
Selznick (born 14 July 1966 in East Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American author and illustrator of children's books.
He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, then worked for 3 years at Eeyore's Books for Children in Manhattan; his first...
Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka (born Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1959) is an American author, illustrator, and violist. His Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1993 but he is probably most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott...
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Kevin Henkes
Kevin Henkes (b. November 27, 1960, Racine, Wisconsin) is a noted children's book author and illustrator, most famous for his book, Kitten's First Full Moon, which won the 2005 Caldecott Medal.
Kevin Henkes (pronounced HENK-us) thought he would be a...
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Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein, born November 25, 1935 in Los Angeles (California, USA), is an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books.
In 2004, Gerstein received the Caldecott Award for his book The...
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Eric Rohmann
Eric Rohmann (born in Riverside, Illinois, in 1957) is a U.S. author and illustrator of children's books. He has won the 2003 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of My Friend Rabbit. A graduate of Illinois State University and Arizona State...
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David Small
David Small (born February 12, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator. He was only 2 years old when he began drawing, health problems having kept him home for much of his childhood.
David Small attended Cass Technical High...
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Simms Taback
Simms Taback (born 1932) is an author and illustrator. He was born in the Bronx to a Jewish family. Taback has illustrated several children's books, including the Caldecott Medal winning There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Joseph Had a...
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Mary Azarian
Mary Azarian (born 1940) is a woodcut artist and children's book illustrator. In 1999 she won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Snowflake Bentley, a picture book of the life of Wilson Bentley.
She produces original prints and has illustrated over 50...
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Paul O. Zelinsky
Paul O. Zelinsky (born 1953) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1998 for his Rapunzel. The best-selling movable book The Wheels on the Bus is his most popular work.
Paul O. Zelinsky was...
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David Wisniewski
David Wisniewski (March 21, 1953 in England – September 11, 2002 in Alexandria, Virginia at age 49), was a children's author and illustrator.
He attended the University of Maryland, College Park but quit after one semester to join the Ringling...
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Peggy Rathmann
Margaret Crosby "Peggy" Rathmann (born March 4, 1953) is an award-winning American author and illustrator.
She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Her first book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the...
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David Diaz
David Diaz (born 1960) is an American illustrator, best known for his illustrations of the dramatic book Smoky Night by Eve Bunting that won him the 1995 Caldecott Medal. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and lives in Carlsbad, California
Allen Say
Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937) is a Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again,...
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Emily Arnold McCully
Emily Arnold McCully is a children's author who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1939, but grew up in Garden City, New York. She attended Brown University and Columbia University.
Among the awards she has won, Ms. McCully has received a...
David Wiesner
David Wiesner (February 5, 1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott Honors.
He was born and raised in Bridgewater, New...
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David Macaulay
David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946) is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.
David Macaulay is also a board member of the National...
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Ed Young
Ed Young (November 28, 1931 –), born Ed (Tse-chun) Young, is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books.
Ed Young was born on November 28, 1931 in Tianjin, China. When he was three years old, he and his family moved to...
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Stephen Gammell
Stephen Gammell (b. February 10, 1943) is an American illustrator of children's books. His awards include the Caldecott Medal.
Stephen Gammell grew up in Iowa. His father, an art editor for a major magazine, brought home periodicals that gave...
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John Schoenherr
John Schoenherr is an American illustrator who was born in New York City, July 5, 1935. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School. He studied art at The Art Students League of New York with Will Barnet and at Pratt Institute.
Much of the...
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Richard Egielski
Richard Egielski (born July 16, 1952 in New York City) is an American illustrator most famous for Hey, Al, a book that Arthur Yorinks wrote, but for which Egielski won the 1987 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations. Egielski is married to Denise...
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Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He won the Caldecott Medal for Jumanji (1982) and The Polar Express (1986), both of which he wrote and illustrated, and...
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Trina Schart Hyman
Trina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939–November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and won four Caldecott awards.
Born in Philadelphia to Margaret Doris...
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Alice and Martin Provensen
Alice Provensen (1918 August 14 - present) and Martin Provensen (1916 July 10 - 1987 March) were an American author-illustrator team who created children's books.
There was a remarkable similarity to the couple's early histories. Both were born in...
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Arnold Lobel
Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933–December 4, 1987) was a popular American author of children's books. Among his most popular books are those of the Frog and Toad series, and Mouse Soup, which won the Garden State Children's Book Award from the New...
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Paul Goble
Paul Goble (born September 27, 1933) is an award winning author and illustrator of children's books, mostly Native American stories. Goble has received a number of honors for his books including the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
Goble, a native of...
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Peter Spier
Peter Spier (born June 6, 1927 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch-born American author and illustrator who has published more than thirty children's books.
Spier grew up in Broek in Waterland as the son of Jo Spier, a very popular Dutch artist and illustrator...
Gerald McDermott
Gerald McDermott is an award-winning filmmaker, children’s book author & illustrator as well as an expert on mythology. His work often combines bright colors and styles with ancient imagery. His picture books encompass folktales and cultures from...
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Margot Zemach
Margot Zemach (November 30, 1931- November 21, 1989) was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, many of them adaptations of folk tales from around the world.
Margot Zemach was born in Los Angeles. When she was growing up there...
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Blair Lent
Blair Lent (January 20, 1930 – January 27, 2009) was an American author and illustrator of mostly Chinese-themed books, including the popular 1968 children's book Tikki Tikki Tembo. In 1973 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of...
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Gail E. Haley
Gail E. Haley (born 1939) is an American author and illustrator. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She married mathematician Joseph A. Haley in 1959. Her first book, My Kingdom for a Dragon was published in 1962. She won the Caldecott Medal...
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William Steig
William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature. Most noted for the books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island and Doctor De...
Uri Shulevitz
Uri Shulevitz (born February 27, 1935) is an American author and illustrator. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustration of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. He created his first picture book, The Moon in My Room, in 1963....
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Ed Emberley
Edward Randolph Emberley (born October 19, 1931 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American artist and illustrator.
Emberley studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston from which he got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and...
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Evaline Ness
Evaline Ness (born Evaline Michelow; April 24, 1911 in Union City, Ohio- August 12, 1986)(died at 75) grew up in Pontiac, Michigan. Ness studied at Ball State Teachers College before deciding to become an illustrator and author in 1960, with the...
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Nonny Hogrogian
Nonny Hogrogian (1932-) is an Armenian-American author and illustrator. She was born on May 7, 1932 in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College. King of the Kerry Fair was the first book she illustrated, in 1960. She won the Caldecott Medal...
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Beni Montresor
Beni Montresor (born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy -- died October 11, 2001 in Verona, Italy) was a versatile Italian artist, set designer, and children's book illustrator. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1965 for May I Bring a Friend?. The...
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Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928) is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.
Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant...
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats (March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) (born Jacob Ezra Katz), author of The Snowy Day, was an easel artist and one of the most important children's literature authors and illustrators of the 20th Century.
Keats is best known for introducing...
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Marcia Brown
Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won the Caldecott Medal three times, the only person to do so until David Wiesner in 2007. She is also the winner of...
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Nicolas Sidjakov
Nicholas Sidjakov (born December 16, 1924 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian-American illustrator of children's books. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and moved to the United States in 1954. His first book was published in 1957, and in...
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Marie Hall Ets
Marie Hall Ets (born December 16, 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American author and illustrator. She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Mrs. Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement...
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Barbara Cooney
Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) was an American children's author and illustrator of more than 200 books and double Caldecott Medalist. She has written books for six decades. Her books have been translated into 10 languages.
Cooney was born on 6 August...
Marc Simont
Marc Simont (born November 23, 1915 in Paris) is an artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Marc, inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, began drawing at a very young age. Mr. Simont...
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Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (Russian: Федор Степанович Рожанковский) (December 24, 1891 – October 12, 1970), also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is best known for his illustrations for children's books, and conversely, for...
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was a German-American author, an internationally known gourmet and also a writer and illustrator of children's books. He is most famous today for the series of Madeline books.
Bemelmans was born to...
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Lynd Ward
Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 – 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward worked in wood engraving,...
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Nicholas Mordvinoff
Nicholas Mordvinoff (September 27, 1911-1973) was a Russian born American artist who won the Caldecott Medal in 1952 for Finders Keepers, by William Lipkind, both writing under the pseudonym Nicholas and Will.
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Katherine Milhous
Katherine Milhous (1894-1977) was a newspaper illustrator and book designer. Milhous won the 1951 Caldecott Award for The Egg Tree about her family's Easter traditions. She illustrated The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh which won the 1945 Newbery...
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Leo Politi
Leo Politi (1908–1996) was an Italian-American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books, as well as Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (1964), intended for adults. His works often celebrated cultural diversity, and many were...
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Berta and Elmer Hader
Berta Hoerner (1891–1976 February 06) and Elmer Stanley Hader (1889 September 07-1973 September 07) were a husband-and-wife team that illustrated more than 70 children's books, about half of which they also wrote. Their most notable contribution to...
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Roger Duvoisin
Roger Duvoisin (1904-1980) was a Swiss-American author and illustrator. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, his first job was making textiles. He moved to New York City in 1927 where he wrote his first book. He received a Caldecott Medal for White Snow,...
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Leonard Weisgard
Leonard Joseph Weisgard (December 13, 1916-January 14, 2000) was an award-winning American author and illustrator of more than 200 children's books, most famous for his collaborations with Margaret Wise Brown. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut,...
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Maude and Miska Petersham
Maud (1890-1971) and Miska (1888-1960) Petersham were an illustrating husband-and-wife team who are most famous for writing and illustrating The Rooster Crows, a book of American songs, rhymes, and games in the tradition of Mother Goose, which won...
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Elizabeth Orton Jones
Elizabeth Orton Jones (June 25, 1910 – May 10, 2005) was an American illustrator.
She was born "half past Christmas" in Highland Park, Illinois, to George Roberts Jones, a violinist, and Jessie May Orton, a pianist and a writer. Elizabeth was...
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Louis Slobodkin
Louis Slobodkin (February 19, 1903–May 1975), born in Albany, New York was a sculptor, author and illustrator of numerous children's books. At the age of 15, he attended the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York City from 1918 to 1923. He...
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Virginia Lee Burton
Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts – October 15, 1968) was an American illustrator and children's book author. Burton wrote and illustrated seven self-illustrated children's books, including the Caldecott Medal...
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Robert McCloskey
Robert McCloskey (September 15, 1914 – June 30, 2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. McCloskey, well-known for his portrayals of New England, wrote and illustrated eight books, the most famous of which was Make Way for...
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Robert Lawson
Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, some of which are widely known. During World War I, he also served as a camouflage artist.
Born in New York City, Lawson spent his early life...
