David Wiesner
(1956 - 0)
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. 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.
He married surgeon Kim Kahng in 1983.
Bibliography
The Three Pigs (2001)
The three little pigs decide not to play by the rules, but the results are much the same.
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Tongues of Jade (1991)
A collection of seventeen Chinese-American folktales.
Tuesday (1991)
It’s Tuesday and the frogs on their lily pads are out in force.
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The Ugly Princess (1981)
A princess learns the true meaning of beauty.
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The Very Best of Children’s Illustration (1993)
The catalog of an exhibition held at the Society of Illustrators gallery in New York City.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2007)
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are visiting their cousin Eustice Scrubb when they are pulled into a picture of a Narnian ship and find themselves part of the crew of the Dawn Treader under the command of Caspian the tenth.
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The Wand: The Return to Mesmeria (1985)
When the children return down The Dark Green Tunnel things have changed for the worse.