David Wiesner (February 5, 1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott honors.

Biography

He was born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. In 1983 he married surgeon Kim Kahng. He started his career as a book illustrator with Honest Andrew by Gloria Skurzynski, 1980.

After co-authoring Loathsome Dragon with his wife, in 1987, he authored and illustrated Free Fall, which was awarded a 1989 Caldecott Honor Medal. This book is the first example of the predominant style of his self-authored books, which tell a fantastical, often dream-like story without words, only illustrations. He won the first-prize Caldecott Medal for three later self-authored books, Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002) and Flotsam (2007). Wiesner also won a Caldecott honor award in 2000 for Sector 7 (1999).

Bibliography

As Author/Illustrator

• 1987 Loathsome Dragon (co-authored with Kim Kahng)
• 1988 Free Fall
• 1990 Hurricane
• 1991 Tuesday
• 1992 June 29, 1999
• 1999 Sector 7
• 2001 The Three Pigs
• 2006 Flotsam

As Illustrator

• 1981 Ugly Princess by Nancy Luenn
• 1981 One Bad Thing about Birthdays by David R. Collins
• 1981 Man from the Sky by Avi
• 1981 Boy who Spoke Chimp by Jane Yolen
• 1982 Owly by Mike Thaler
• 1982 Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk by Jane Yolen
• 1983 Miranty and the Alchemist by Vera Chapman
• 1984 Dark Green Tunnel by Allan W. Eckert
• 1985 Wand: the Return to Mesmeria by Allan W. Eckert
• 1985 E.T., the Storybook of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle; based on the story by Steven Spielberg
• 1986 Kite Flier by Dennis Haseley
• 1988 Firebrat by Nancy Willard
• 1989 Rainbow People by Laurence Yep
• 1989 The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Marianna Mayer
• 1991 Tongues of Jade by Laurence Yep
• 1994 Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting
• 1980 Honest Andrew by Gloria Skurzynski

Other Works

• 1989 Cover for The Glass Salamander by Ann Downer

External links

• Author page on Houghton Mifflin (publisher) website, with:
• Biography
• Bibliography
• An interview with Tom Bodett
• The creative process behind Tuesday
• Website dedicated to "Flotsam"
• Audio interviews