Uri Shulevitz

A Caldecott Medal winner, illustrator and author, Uri Shulevitz was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. He spent his early years in Europe and Russia and lived in Israel from 1949-1959. At age 24 he moved to New York City where he studied painting at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and drew illustrations for a Hebrew publisher. He later was discovered by Harper & Row and began a long, illustrious career as a children's book author and illustrator. A retrospective of his work is currently on display at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts.