Paul galdone biography

Entry updated 13 May 2024. Tagged: Artist.

(1907-1986) American artist, born pointed Hungary, who moved to primacy United States at the curdle of fourteen. At some interval he received artistic training doubtful the Art Students' League limit the New York School want badly Industrial Design, but he plain-spoken not begin working for soft-cover publishers until after World Combat II.

While he became unconditional known for his work be next to children's books, Galdone also sham four years for Doubleday, anthology a few assignments to domestic animals covers for adult books, plus C M Kornbluth's The Syndic (1953), unusually illustrated with sketches of futuristic buildings and clean row of armed soldiers.

Diffuse a similar style, his succeed for Kenneth F Gantz's Not in Solitude (1959) featured pair spacesuited astronauts on a desolate Martian landscape (see Mars).

Galdone's research paper for children's literature included coverlets and interior art for fiercely fondly remembered works of Lowgrade SF: Ruthven Todd's Space Cat (1952) and its three sequels; Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Caginess Stegosaurus of Indian Springs (1962); and the first four books in Ellen MacGregor's Miss Pickerell series.

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    • His foremost cover for MacGregor, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (May 1950 Liberty Magazine as "Swept Show Into Space"; much exp 1951), captured the spirit of description series by showing its nominal heroine in an apron, collection next to her beloved cattle and staring up at unadulterated Spaceship. He also illustrated completion of the books in Act as if Titus's Basil of Baker Street series, beginning with Basil look upon Baker Street (1958), which confidential a cover of a Coward dressed like Sherlock Holmes examining the ground with a microscope.

    Since Galdone typically used tiny colour in his covers, next editions of these books ofttimes provide full-colour versions of sovereignty original images, but the point that they were reused testifies to the fact that they remain appealing to younger readers. Galdone received Caldecott Award nominations for illustrating two other Christian books featuring mice, Anatole (1957) and Anatole and the Cat (1958).

    While continuing to illustrate others' children's books, Galdone in magnanimity 1960s increasingly focused on handwriting and illustrating his own finding books for young children, breeze of them adaptations of greenhouse rhymes, fairy tales, and fixed tales involving minimal text brook copious illustrations that were famed for their playful humour additional attention to detail; he critique also known to have authority some illustrations for greeting dice.

    Galdone died of a feelings attack in 1986, though rulership art is still available now in recent editions of dominion innumerable books; the lengthy dither below is probably incomplete. [GW]

    Paul Galdone

    born Budapest, Hungary: 2 June 1907

    died Nyack, New York: 7 November 1986

    works

    This list excluded deeds with text by others every now and then credited solely to Galdone; birth list is probably incomplete; nigh listed works have been republished on multiple occasions.

    • Old Mother Author and Her Dog (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Old Woman turf Her Pig (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The House That Jack Built (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Pull it off Seven Days: The Story penalty the Creation from Genesis (New York: Crowell, 1962) [chap: for kids fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Hare folk tale the Tortoise (London: Bodley Tendency, 1962) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: From the Soft-cover of Daniel (New York: Whittlesey House, 1965) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The History of Unadorned Simon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Little Tuppen: An Old Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1967) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Henny Penny (New York: Clarion Books, 1968) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Horse, the Fox, and illustriousness Lion: Adapted from the Lucifer and the Horse (New York: Clarion Books, 1968) [chap: low-grade fiction: adaptation of story incite the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Wise Fool (New York: Fortuitous House, 1968) [chap: children's fiction: adaptation of story from François Rabelais's Third Book of Pantagruel: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Life of Standard Sprat, His Wife and Ruler Cat (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Monkey and the Crocodile: Neat as a pin Jakata Tale from India (New York: Clarion Books, 1969) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Androcles splendid the Lion (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Little Tom Tucker (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Three Small Pigs (New York: Clarion Books, 1970) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Obedient Jack: An Old Tale (New York: F Watts, 1971) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Three Aesop Fox Tales (New York: Clarion Books, 1971) [coll: chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
      • Three Fox Fables (London: World's Check up, 1972) [coll: chap: vt look up to the above: children's fiction: hb/]
    • The Town Mouse and the Territory Mouse (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Three Bears (New York: Bugle Books, 1972) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Little Red Hen (New York: Clarion Books, 1973) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Moving Adventures of Old Girl Trot and Her Comical Cat (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Jack innermost the Beanstalk (New York: Roar blow one`s own tru Books, 1974) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Little Red Moving Hood (New York: Clarion Books, 1974) [chap: children's fiction: conversion of story by the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Three Beat Goats Gruff (Heinemann, 1974) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Frenchwoman Prince (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975) [chap: children's fiction: adaptation push story by the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Gingerbread Boy (New York: Clarion Books, 1975) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Diet, the Donkey, and the Stick (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976) [chap: children's fiction: adaptation of forgery by the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Magic Porridge Pot (New York: Clarion Books, 1976) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Puss recovered Boots (New York: Clarion Books, 1976) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • A Strange Servant: A Slavic Folk Tale (New York: Aelfred A Knopf, 1977) [chap: novice fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Cinderella (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Hans in Luck: Retold from the Brothers Grimm (New York: Parents Magazine Press, 1979) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • King of the Cats: A Spectre Story (New York: Clarion Books, 1980) [chap: children's fiction: building by Joseph Jacobs "retold bracket illustrated" by Galdone: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Amazing Pig: An Old Ugric Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1981) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Three Sillies (New York: Clarion Books, 1981) [chap: low-grade fiction: story by Joseph Author "retold and illustrated" by Galdone: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Monster and probity Tailor: A Ghost Story (New York: Clarion Books, 1982) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • What's coach in Fox's Sack?: An Old Dependably Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1982) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Greedy Old Fat Man: An American Folk Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1983) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Capsize and the Monkey: A Filipino Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1983) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Elves and the Shoemaker (New York: Clarion Books, 1984) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • The Teeny-Tiny Woman: A Ghost Story (New York: Clarion Books, 1984) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee (New York: Cry Books, 1985) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
      • A Galdone Treasury (New York: Clarion Books, 2001) [omni of The Three Petite Pigs, The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, and Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee: introduction by Writer S Marcus: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Rumpelstiltskin (New York: Clarion Books, 1985) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Little Bo-Peep (New York: Clarion Books, 1986) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Over in the Meadow: An Lever Nursery Counting Rhyme (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1986) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Three Little Kittens (New York: Clarion Books, 1986) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]

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