1989 The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep.1985 E.T., the Storybook of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle based on the film story by Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison.1985 Wand: the Return to Mesmeria by Allan W.1983 Miranty and the Alchemist by Vera Chapman.1982 Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk by Jane Yolen.

1981 One Bad Thing about Birthdays by David R.1980 Honest Andrew by Gloria Skurzynski.1987 Loathsome Dragon, retold by Wiesner and Kim Kahng.The exhibition ended at SBMA and continued rotating through museums to current day. In the exhibition Wiesner showed his work highlights throughout the years of his career. In January 2017, Wiesner had a retrospective art exhibition entitled David Wiesner & the Art of Wordless Storytelling at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. ( Marcia Brown is the only other person to win three Caldecotts, from 1955 to 1983.) Subsequently he won three Caldecott Medals for solo picture books- Tuesday (1991), The Three Pigs (2001), and Flotsam (2006)-and he was one of the runners-up for Sector 7 (1999) and Mr.

įree Fall was the first example of the predominant style of his solo books, which tell a fantastical, often dream-like story without words, only illustrations. Free Fall (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1988) was a Caldecott Honor Book, a runner-up for the annual Caldecott Medal, conferred by the American Library Association on the illustrator of the year's best-illustrated picture book. Since then Wiesner has created many picture books solo-as writer and illustrator, or stories without words. After illustrating a dozen or more books with other writers, he and his wife Kim Kahng co-wrote Loathsome Dragon, a picture book with his illustrations that G.P. That year he also illustrated a novel by Avi, Man From the Sky (Knopf, 1980). Wiesner's first book was Honest Andrew, a picture book with text by Gloria Skurzynski, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1980. Wiesner currently resides outside of Philadelphia with his family. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration. Wiesner was born and raised in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, and attended Bridgewater-Raritan High School. As an illustrator he has won three Caldecott Medals recognizing the year's 'most distinguished American picture book for children' and he was one of five finalists in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available for creators of children's books. David Wiesner (born February 5, 1956) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books including some that tell stories without words.

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