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 born in 1953 in Evanston, IL. He grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. During his childhood years, he spent much of his time drawing. Often with his friends he would make up imaginary worlds and draw them. Whe...
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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 born in 1953 in Evanston, IL. He grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. During his childhood years, he spent much of his time drawing. Often with his friends he would make up imaginary worlds and draw them. When he was only four, he submitted work to Highlights magazine, and his artwork was first showcased. Some of his influential childhood book favorites included The Color Kittens and The Tawny Scrawny Lion. Zelinsky said in reference to memories of what he had read, "Feelings come to me as a sort of flavor. I know that when I call up my earliest memories, what I remember seeing and hearing is accompanied by a flavor-like sense of what it felt like to be there and see that.” In later years of his youth, his favorite authors were William Pène du...
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