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First Published:
May 2005, 144 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2006, 144 pages
Mordicai Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in
1935 and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
After leaving the Chouinard Art Institute in Los
Angeles he got a job in an animated cartoon
studio, and worked for many years in New York
mainly on TV commercials.
In 1970 he met Elizabeth Levy, who would
change the course of his life. She had
written a mystery and was looking for an illustrator.
The book became a series that has continued for
more than 30 years.
After a few years Gerstein felt that he
wanted to write books himself. He says
'at first I could only write stories one page
long, which I put on my wall like drawings. Over
time the stories got longer, one led to another,
and even if they were serious, they had to be
funny, too. After working at writing for about
ten years, I wrote a story about a boy who was
raised as a duck. The story became a book and I
became an author as well as an illustrator.'
Since then he has written and illustrated more
than 30 books including The Man Who Walked
Between the Towers which won the 2004
Caldecott Medal.
This article was originally published in June 2005, and has been updated for the
August 2006 paperback release.
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