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Born November 14, 1907 • New York City • New York
Died October 3, 2003 (aged 95) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Caldecott Medal (1970)
Notable Works “Abel’s Island” • “C D B!” • “Doctor De Soto” • “Roland, the Minstrel Pig” • “Shrek!” • “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” • “The Amazing Bone”
Subjects Of Study Shrek

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Rose Cecil O’Neill
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Lynd Ward
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Mark Twain
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Art Spiegelman, 2008.
Art Spiegelman
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John Cheever
John Cheever
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James Thurber, 1955.
James Thurber
American writer and cartoonist
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Marya Mannes
American author and critic
Abby Morton Diaz
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Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
American cartoonist and author
E.B. White
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Peter De Vries
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Adams, William Taylor
William Taylor Adams
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Howard Pyle
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Donald Barthelme.
Donald Barthelme
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Saul Steinberg, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1951.
Saul Steinberg
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Ludwig Bemelmans
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Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak
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George Cruikshank
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