Peter Sís
Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a two-time Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honoree, and has won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal twice. Peter's books, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet through the Red Box, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain were all named Caldecott Honor books by the American Library Association. The Wall was also awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal.
In addition, Peter Sís is the first children’s book illustrator to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. He was chosen to deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture for the Association for Library Service to Children. Peter won the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. This award is considered the most prestigious in international children's literature, given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People.
Peter Sís lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.
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Tibet Through the Red Box
Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author
FSG Books for Young Readers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
"Extraordinary." --Starred, Publishers Weekly
Tibet Through the Red Box is a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book and the 1999 winner of the Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Special Citation.
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The Pilot and the Little Prince
written & illustrated by Peter Sís
FSG Books for Young Readers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Peter Sís's remarkable biography The Pilot and the Little Prince celebrates the author of The Little Prince, one of the most beloved books in the world.
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The Magician's Apprentice
Kate Banks, illustrated by Peter Sís
FSG Books for Young Readers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Baz has always dreamed about following his two older brothers out of his dusty little town, so when a stranger comes to his family's home and asks him to be a weaver's apprentice, Baz is eager to...
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Madlenka Soccer Star
written & illustrated by Peter Sís
FSG Books for Young Readers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
This ebook includes audio narration.
Three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sis rides the rising tide of soccer enthusiasm to score another winner.
Madlenka—that cosmopolitan...
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The Tree of Life
Peter Sís
FSG Books for Young Readers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form
As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men...
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Madlenka's Dog
Madlenka
Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author
FSG Books for Young Readers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
"Inspiring memories in the old and imagination in the young, the dog is a noble beast indeed, and Madlenka's Dog's resonant intergenerational connections make it an inspired choice for sharing." --Starred, The Horn Book
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Translated by Randall Jarrell; With 11 Drawings by Peter Sis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sís's dark, dreamy illustrations
Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most...
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Starry Messenger
Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author
Square Fish
Square Fish
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei
In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas...
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