David Small (author)
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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. So he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Wayne State University and a master of fine arts degree at Yale University. In 2001 he won the Caldecott Medal for So You Want to Be President?. He also earned a 1998 Caldecott Honor for The Library, written by Sarah Stewart, his wife, recipient of the 2007 Michigan Author Award. Mr. Small and Ms. Stewart live in Mendon, Michigan.
[edit] References
U.S. News & World Report, 01/29/2001 pg 8 "The cartoonist in chief"
Horn Book Magazine, Jul/Aug 2001 pg 411 "Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech"
Online biography from Parent's Choice Foundation [1]
CNN Book News report on David Small [2]
Publisher's biography [3]
List of Caldecott Award winners [4]
[edit] Partial Bibliography
So You Want to Be President? by Judith St George, David Small (Illustrator) Philomel 2000 Year 2000 Notable Books by the New York Times, one of the Best Children's Books 2000 by Publishers Weekly, winner of the 2001 Caldecott Medal.
My Senator and Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, D.C. by Edward Moore Kennedy, David Small (Illustrator) Scholastic Inc, 2006
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) Trumpet Club, New York 1998
Mouse & His Child by Russell Hoban, David Small (Illustrator) Arthur A. Levine Book 2001
Imogene's Antlers by David Small Crown 1985
The Library by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995 Caldecott Honor Award
So You Want to Be an Inventor? by Judith St George, David Small (Illustrator)
The Journey by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001 A "Publishers Weekly" and "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.
Huckabuck Family: And How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back by Carl Sandburg, David Small (Illustrator) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999
The Money Tree by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994
Company's Coming by Arthur Yorinks, David Small (Illustrator) Knopf Books for Young Readers 1988
George Washington's Cows by David Small Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997
Eulalie and the Hopping Head by David Small MacMillan 1982, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001 A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.
Hoover's Bride by David Small Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Christmas Crocodile by Bonnie Becker, David Small (Illustrator) Simon & Schuster, New York 1998
Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong, David Small (Illustrator)
Petey's Bedtime Story by Beverly Cleary, David Small (Illustrator) HarperCollins Publishers 1993
The Friend by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
Company's Going by Arthur Yorinks, David Small (Illustrator) Hyperion Books 2001
Paper John by David Small Farrar Straus Giroux 1987
Fenwick's Suit by David Small Farrar Straus Giroux 1996
Ruby Mae Has Something to Say by David Small Crown 1992,
A Surfeit of Similes by Norton Juster, David Small (Illustrator) William Morrow & Company, New York 1989
When Dinosaurs came with Everything by Elise Broach, David Small (Illustrator) Athenium