David Wiesner

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David Wiesner (1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including two Caldecott Medals.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

He was born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. In 1983 he married surgeon Kim Kahng. He started his career as a book illustrator with Honest Andrew by Gloria Skurzynski, 1980.

After co-authoring Loathsome Dragon with his wife, 1987, he authored and illustrated Free Fall, which was was awarded a 1989 Caldecott Honor Medal. This book is the first example of the predominant style of his self-authored books, which tell a fantastical, often dream-like story without words, only illustrations. He won the first-prize Caldecott Medal for two later self-authored books, Tuesday (1992) and The Three Pigs (2002).

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] As Author/Illustrator

1987 Loathsome Dragon (co-authored with Kim Kahng)
1988 Free Fall
1990 Hurricane
1991 Tuesday
1992 June 29, 1999
1999 Sector 7
2001 The Three Pigs
2006 Flotsam

[edit] As Illustrator

1981 Ugly Princess by Nancy Luenn
1981 One Bad Thing about Birthdays by David R. Collins
1981 Man from the Sky by Avi
1981 Boy who Spoke Chimp by Jane Yolen
1982 Owly by Mike Thaler
1982 Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk by Jane Yolen
1983 Miranty and the Alchemist by Vera Chapman
1984 Dark Green Tunnel by Allan W. Eckert
1985 Wand: the Return to Mesmeria by Allan W. Eckert
1985 E.T., the Storybook of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle; based on the story by Steven Spielberg
1986 Kite Flier by Dennis Haseley
1988 Firebrat by Nancy Willard
1989 Rainbow People by Laurence Yep
1989 The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Marianna Mayer
1991 Tongues of Jade by Laurence Yep
1994 Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting
1980 Honest Andrew by Gloria Skurzynski