Occupation Illustrator, writer Name Uri Shulevitz Nationality American Role Writer | Period 1963–present Awards Caldecott Medal | |
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Born February 27, 1935 (age 89)
Warsaw, Poland ( 1935-02-27 ) Genre Children's picture books Nominations Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Books How I Learned Geography, The Treasure, Writing with Pictures, One Monday morning, Snow Similar People Arthur Ransome, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Randolph Caldecott | ||
Notable awards Caldecott Medal
1969 | ||
Reading from the book how i learned geography by uri shulevitz
Uri Shulevitz (Hebrew: אורי שולביץ; born February 27, 1935) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1969 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, a Russian fairy tale retold by Arthur Ransome in 1916.
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Biography
Uri Shulevitz was born in Warsaw, Poland, on February 27, 1935. During the bombing of Warsaw in 1939, a bomb fell into a stairwell of his apartment building when he was at home. The family fled from Poland and settled in Paris by 1947, then moved again to Israel in 1949. During the Sinai War in 1956, Mr. Shulevitz joined the Israeli Army. Later, he joined the Ein Gedi kibbutz.
Shulevitz moved to New York City in 1959, studying painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and working as an illustrator for a Hebrew children's book publisher. In 1962, an editor at Harper & Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested he write children's books. He created his first picture book, The Moon in My Room, in 1963.
Shulevitz lives in New York City.
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