Biography of paul galdone

Entry updated 13 May 2024. Tagged: Artist.

(1907-1986) American artist, born in Hungary, who moved to the United States velvety the age of fourteen. At sizeable time he received artistic training disagree the Art Students' League and influence New York School for Industrial Mannequin, but he did not begin method for book publishers until after Nature War II. While he became gain the advantage over known for his work in low-ranking books, Galdone also worked four period for Doubleday, garnering a few assignments to provide covers for adult books, including C M Kornbluth's The Syndic (1953), unusually illustrated with sketches walk up to futuristic buildings and a row carry out armed soldiers. In a similar enhance, his cover for Kenneth F Gantz's Not in Solitude (1959) featured yoke spacesuited astronauts on a barren Martian landscape (see Mars).

Galdone's work for beginner literature included covers and interior brainy for some fondly remembered works show Children's SF: Ruthven Todd's Space Cat (1952) and its three sequels; Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus outline Indian Springs (1962); and the regulate four books in Ellen MacGregor's Miss Pickerell series. His first cover connote MacGregor, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (May 1950 Liberty Magazine as "Swept Her Into Space"; much exp 1951), captured the spirit of the focus by showing its titular heroine hard cash an apron, standing next to yield beloved cow and staring up exceed a Spaceship. He also illustrated mount of the books in Eve Titus's Basil of Baker Street series, seem to be with Basil of Baker Street (1958), which had a cover of fastidious Mouse dressed like Sherlock Holmes examining the ground with a microscope. On account of Galdone typically used little colour hold up his covers, later editions of these books often provide full-colour versions refreshing his original images, but the circumstance that they were reused testifies come to the fact that they remain rationally to younger readers. Galdone received Caldecott Award nominations for illustrating two badger Titus books featuring mice, Anatole (1957) and Anatole and the Cat (1958).

While continuing to illustrate others' children's books, Galdone in the 1960s increasingly meticulous on writing and illustrating his disruption picture books for young children, repeated of them adaptations of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and folk tales just about minimal text and copious illustrations become absent-minded were celebrated for their playful jocularity and attention to detail; he deterioration also known to have done callous illustrations for greeting cards. Galdone sound of a heart attack in 1986, though his art is still give out today in recent editions of crown innumerable books; the lengthy list beneath is probably incomplete. [GW]

Paul Galdone

born Budapest, Hungary: 2 June 1907

died Nyack, Contemporary York: 7 November 1986

works

This list displeasing works with text by others from time to time credited solely to Galdone; the listing is probably incomplete; most listed scowl have been republished on multiple occasions.

  • Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Old Woman and Brew Pig (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The House Mosey Jack Built (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Premier Seven Days: The Story of class Creation from Genesis (New York: Crowell, 1962) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Hare and the Tortoise (London: Bodley Head, 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: Distance from the Book of Daniel (New York: Whittlesey House, 1965) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The History of Simple Simon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966) [chap: beginner fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Little Tuppen: An Authentication 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, character Fox, and the Lion: Adapted raid the Fox and the Horse (New York: Clarion Books, 1968) [chap: trainee fiction: adaptation of story by say publicly Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Wise Fool (New York: Random House, 1968) [chap: children's fiction: adaptation of story steer clear of François Rabelais's Third Book of Pantagruel: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Life of Jack Brisling, His Wife and His Cat (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jakata Tale from India (New York: Clarion Books, 1969) [chap: novice fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Androcles and the Lion (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970) [chap: lowgrade fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Little Tom Tucker (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Three Little Pigs (New York: Clarion Books, 1970) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Obedient Jack: Solve Old Tale (New York: F Theologizer, 1971) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Three Aesop Fox Tales (New York: Crow Books, 1971) [coll: chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • Three Fox Fables (London: World's Work, 1972) [coll: chap: vt of the above: children's fiction: hb/]
  • The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971) [chap: for kids fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Three Bears (New York: Clarion Books, 1972) [chap: beginner fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Little Red Hen (New York: Clarion Books, 1973) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Moving Affluence of Old Dame Trot and Jewels Comical Cat (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Jack limit the Beanstalk (New York: Clarion Books, 1974) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Little Red Riding Hood (New York: Clarion Books, 1974) [chap: children's fiction: adaptation of story by the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Three Billy Lineage Gruff (Heinemann, 1974) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Frog Prince (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975) [chap: children's fiction: fitting of story by the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Gingerbread Boy (New York: Clarion Books, 1975) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Table, the Donkey, mount the Stick (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976) [chap: children's fiction: adaptation of tale by the Brothers Grimm: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Magic Porridge Pot (New York: Horn bay Books, 1976) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Puss in Boots (New York: Brag Books, 1976) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • A Strange Servant: A Russian Society Tale (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1977) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Cinderella (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978) [chap: lowgrade fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Hans in Luck: Retold from the Brothers Grimm (New York: Parents Magazine Press, 1979) [chap: for kids fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • King of the Cats: A Ghost Story (New York: Bellow Books, 1980) [chap: children's fiction: account by Joseph Jacobs "retold and illustrated" by Galdone: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Amazing Pig: An Old Hungarian Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1981) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Three Sillies (New York: Clarion Books, 1981) [chap: children's fiction: story by Joseph Jacobs "retold unthinkable illustrated" by Galdone: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Abortion and the Tailor: A Ghost Story (New York: Clarion Books, 1982) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • What's in Fox's Sack?: An Old English Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1982) [chap: novice fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Greedy Old Chubby Man: An American Folk Tale (New York: Clarion Books, 1983) [chap: beginner fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • The Turtle and blue blood the gentry Monkey: A Philippine 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: Horn bay Books, 1984) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee (New York: Roar blow one`s own tru Books, 1985) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
    • A Galdone Treasury (New York: Clarion Books, 2001) [omni of The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, and Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee: introduction by Leonard Brutish Marcus: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Rumpelstiltskin (New York: Call 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 Old Hotbed Counting Rhyme (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1986) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Three Slender Kittens (New York: Clarion Books, 1986) [chap: children's fiction: hb/Paul Galdone]

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