so you want to be president by judith st george

“At the Caldecott ceremony in San Francisco,” said David, “facing that veritable sea of smiling faces - of librarians, of friends in publishing, of my family and other well-wishers - I was so overcome that I lost my voice and croaked my way through the speech.

His drawings appeared regularly in The New Yorker and The New York Times.Ī learn-as-you-go illustrator, David’s books have been translated into several languages, made into animated films and musicals, and have won many of the top awards accorded to illustration, including the 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener written by his wife, Sarah Stewart, and the 2001 Caldecott Medal for So, You Want To Be President? by Judith St. Although tenure at the college did not follow, many more picture books did, as well as extensive work for national magazines and newspapers.

After getting his MFA at the Yale Graduate School of Art, David taught art for many years on the college level, ran a film series, and made satirical sketches for campus newspapers.Īpproaching tenure, he wrote and illustrated a picture book, Eulalie and the Hopping Head, which he took to New York, pounding the pavements and collecting rejections for a month in the dead of winter.

He switched his major to Art and never looked back. At 21, after many years of writing plays, David took the advice of a friend who informed him that the doodles he made on the telephone pad were better than anything he had ever written. In school he became known as “the kid who could draw good,” but David never considered a career in art because it was so easy for him. Urn:isbn:1555920942 Republisher_date 20120810124408 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120810035739 Scanner Small was born and raised in Detroit. Urn:lcp:soyouwanttobepre00stge_0:epub:1f398ce6-0699-4799-ba6d-8dc9983a990f Extramarc University of Michigan Foldoutcount 0 Identifier soyouwanttobepre00stge_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1sf3zv0m Isbn 9780399234071Ĥ9190469 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元77958M Openlibrary_edition

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So you want to be president by judith st george