Uri Shulevitz | Biography

Uri Shulevitz, the winner of the 1969 Caldecott Medal and creator of a 1980 Caldecott Honor Book, has gained international respect as an author and illustrator of children's picture books since 1963 when his first book, The Moon in My Room, was published. He is seen by specialists in children's literature as one of the contemporary writer-illustrators most gifted in integrating text and pictures into a complementary harmony. He feels an affinity for folk stories of the Eastern European tradition and has adapted several for the modern child from Russian and Yiddish sources. He has also illustrated books by other authors, including Charlotte Zolotow, Jean Russell Larson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. He has a definite conception of how to write and illustrate children's books and is in demand as a teacher of workshops on the subject. That Uri Shulevitz comes to a knowledge of English after speaking...
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