Uri Shulevitz, whose picture books evoked Holocaust survival, dies at 89
The Caldecott winner sketched his first drawings as a young Polish Jew fleeing the Nazis and grew up to become an acclaimed ...
Uri Shulevitz, 89, Acclaimed Children’s Book Author and Illustrator, Dies
Uri Shulevitz, a Polish-born children’s book author and illustrator who survived a harrowing childhood traversing Europe to ...
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Interrupting Chicken's Eggciting Year
Fifteen years after the debut of 'Interrupting Chicken,' David Ezra Stein's 2011 Caldecott Honor book, Stein and Chicken are ...
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Alice B. McGinty | Two picture books recognized as most distinguished
The winner of the Caldecott Medal this year, honoring the artist of the most distinguished American picture book, was “Chooch ...
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‘Hansel and Gretel’ Picture Book Due This Fall from Stephen King and Maurice Sendak
illustrated by late Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak. The picture book will be released on September 2, and simultaneously in the U.K. by Hodder Children’s Books. This new edition of the fairy ...
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'The Last Cuentista' and 'Watercress' win top Newbery, Caldecott book awards
Another story of memory was awarded the Randolph Caldecott Medal for outstanding children's picture book. Watercress, in which a Chinese American girl learns about her heritage, was illustrated by ...