Evaline Ness
Author,Illustrator
(1911 - 1986)
Evaline Ness was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children’s books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own.
In 1967, she won the Caldecott Medal for Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine.
Bibliography
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960)
The story of an Indian girl named Karana who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast.
The Steamroller (1974)
Daisy gets a steamroller for Christmas, but she can’t control it and it squashes everything flat.
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