David Wiesner (1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott honors.
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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, in 1987, he authored and illustrated Free Fall, which 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 three later self-authored books, Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002) and Flotsam (2007). Wiesner also won a Caldecott honor award in 2000 for Sector 7 (1999).
Bibliography
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
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
Other Works
- 1989 Cover for The Glass Salamander by Ann Downer
External links
- Author page on Houghton Mifflin (publisher) website, with:
- Biography
- Bibliography
- An interview with Tom Bodett
- The creative process behind Tuesday
- Website dedicated to "Flotsam"
