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Uri Shule­vitz

Uri Shule­vitz is a Calde­cott Medal-win­ning illus­tra­tor and author. He was born in War­saw, Poland, on Feb­ru­ary 27, 1935. He began draw­ing at the age of three and, unlike many chil­dren, nev­er stopped. The War­saw blitz occurred when he was four years old, and the Shule­vitz fam­i­ly fled. For eight years they were wan­der­ers, arriv­ing, even­tu­al­ly, in Paris in 1947. There Shule­vitz devel­oped an enthu­si­asm for French com­ic books, and soon he and a friend start­ed mak­ing their own. At thir­teen, Shule­vitz won first prize in an all-ele­men­tary-school draw­ing com­pe­ti­tion in Paris’s 20th dis­trict. In 1949, the fam­i­ly moved to Israel, where Shule­vitz worked a vari­ety of jobs: an appren­tice at a rub­ber-stamp shop, a car­pen­ter, and a dog-license clerk at Tel Aviv City Hall. He stud­ied at the Teach­ers’ Insti­tute in Tel Aviv, where he took cours­es in lit­er­a­ture, anato­my, and biol­o­gy, and also stud­ied at the Art Insti­tute of Tel Aviv. At fif­teen, he was the youngest to exhib­it in a group draw­ing show at the Tel Aviv Muse­um. At 24 he moved to New York City, where he stud­ied paint­ing at Brook­lyn Muse­um Art School and drew illus­tra­tions for a pub­lish­er of Hebrew books. One day while talk­ing on the tele­phone, he noticed that his doo­dles had a fresh and spon­ta­neous look―different from his pre­vi­ous illus­tra­tions. This dis­cov­ery was the begin­ning of Uri’s new approach to his illus­tra­tions for The Moon in My Room, his first book, pub­lished in 1963. Since then he was writ­ten and illus­trat­ed many cel­e­brat­ed children’s books. He won the Calde­cott Medal for The Fool of the World and the Fly­ing Ship, writ­ten by Arthur Ran­some. He has also earned three Calde­cott Hon­ors, for The Trea­sure, Snow and How I Learned Geog­ra­phy. His oth­er books include One Mon­day Morn­ing, Dawn, So Sleepy Sto­ry, and many oth­ers. He also wrote the instruc­tion­al guide Writ­ing with Pic­tures: How to Write and Illus­trate Children’s Books. He lives in New York City.

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Uri Shule­vitz
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