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Doug Salati was a 2015 Sendak Fellow. [4] While in residence, he met Tomie dePaola, who would later become a mentor. In Salati's 2023 Caldecott Medal acceptance speech, he stated, "Tomie claimed that he couldn’t figure out how to make the pictures for a manuscript he had written and asked if I wanted to give it a try.
Telemachus and Mentor (1956 image) In the Odyssey, Mentor (Greek: Μέντωρ, Méntōr; gen.: Μέντορος) [1] was the son of Alcimus. In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus. When Odysseus left for the Trojan War, he placed Mentor in charge of his son Telemachus, [2] and of Odysseus' palace. [3]
The Art of Mentoring series is a series of books published by Basic Books from 2001 to 2008, beginning with Alan Dershowitz's Letters to a Young Lawyer and Christopher Hitchens' Letters to a Young Contrarian. The books were all titled in the form "Letters to a Young ____", in the spirit of Rainer Maria Rilke's book Letters to a Young Poet. They ...
Bryan has won multiple awards as an author. In 2015 in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Bryan won a Bronze Medal in the category "Pre-school picture books" for My Mummy is an Engineer. [12] In 2016 Shelf Unbound Notable 100 Winner (My Mummy is an Engineer). [13]
Renée Watson (born July 29, 1978) is an American teaching artist and author of children's books, best known for her award-winning and New York Times bestselling young adult novel Piecing Me Together, [1] for which she received the John Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.
Robinson was awarded a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor [5] and a Caldecott Honor for Last Stop on Market Street. [6] The book also won the 2016 Newbery Medal, [7] [8] for author Matt de la Peña who said of his process, "I know editors often want to keep writers and illustrators apart, but I feel this story really benefited from the fact that I knew Christian was going to be the illustrator.
Save the Cat! is the first in the Save the Cat! book series, and was followed by two books also written by Blake Snyder: Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies (2007) and Save the Cat! Strikes Back: More Trouble for Screenwriters to Get Into . . . and Out Of (2009). After Snyder's death in 2009, the series continued with Save the Cat!
The genre of picture books is unique because of the complementary relationship between text and art. [2] Picture books have existed since 1658, when the first picture book specifically for children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus, was printed. [3] The genre continues to be popular today. [3]