Paul Galdone

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Paul Galdone (1907 - November 7 1986) was a children's literature author and illustrator. He was born in Budapest and he emigrated to the United States in 1921. He studied art at the Art Student's League and New York School for Industrial Design. He served for the US Army during world War II.

He illustrated nearly all of Eve Titus' books including, Basil of Baker Street series which was translated to the screen in the animated Disney film, The Great Mouse Detective.

Galdone and Titus were nominated for Caldecott Medals for Anatole (1957) and Anatole and the Cat (1958).^[1]. The titles were later named Caldecott Honor books in 1971.

He died of a heart attack in Nyack, New York. He was posthumously awarded the 1996 Kerlan Award for his contribution to children's literature.^[2]His retellings of classic tales like The Little Red Hen or Three Billy Goats Gruff have become staples.

[edit] Selected bibliography

• Anatole series of books (illustrator only, written by Eve Titus)
• The Monkey and the Crocodile, A Jataka Tale From India (1969)
• Three Aesop Fox Fables (1971)
• The Little Red Hen (1973) ISBN 0-395-28803-7
• Henny Penny (1979) ISBN 0-395-28800-2
• The Gingerbread Boy (1979) ISBN 0-395-28799-5
• Three Billy Goats Gruff (1973)ISBN 0-395-28812-6
• Puss in Boots
• Hans in Luck
• The Greedy Old Fat Man
• Paul Revere's Ride (illustrator only, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Key of Gold (illustrator only, written by Cora Cheney)
• Heroines of the Early West (illustrator only, written by Nancy Wilson Ross)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Paul Caldone Collection University of Connecticut. Contans a comprehensive list of works.
• The Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota holds examples of his orignal art.]