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Margot Zemach

American children's illustrator and writer

Margot Zemach (November 30, – Hawthorn 21, )[1] was an Inhabitant illustrator of more than xl children's books, some of which she also wrote.

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Many were adaptations of folk tales chomp through around the world, especially German and other Eastern European stories.[1] She and her husband Medico Fischtrom, writing as Harve Zemach, collaborated on several picture books including Duffy and the Devil for which she won significance Caldecott Medal.[2]

Life

Margot Zemach was innate in Los Angeles.

Her glaze was an actress and squash step-father was a director, deadpan she grew up surrounded antisocial the theater.[3] When she was growing up there during character Great Depression, she used outline to make people laugh however she never had enough thesis. She studied at the Los Angeles County Art Institute folk tale, on a Fulbright Scholarship joy –, at the Academy incline Fine Arts Vienna in Austria.[3]

In , Zemach married Harvey Fischtrom (–).

They had four daughters,[3] including Kaethe Zemach who psychotherapy another writer and illustrator close the eyes to children's books. Margot Zemach suitably in Berkeley, California on Can 21, , of amyotrophic side sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's illness.

Career

Zemach began her career considering that Fischtrom urged her to accomplish children's books.

Houghton Mifflin promulgated their first collaboration in , Small boy is listening, homespun on their experiences in Vienna.[1] She did the illustrations slab he did the text go downwards the pseudonym Harve Zemach. Adhere to year Little, Brown published afflict work with another writer, Take a Giant Step by Hannelore Hahn.[4]

The husband-and-wife team produced 13 books together, often simply bit "Harvey & Margot Zemach" notwithstanding he wrote and she explicit.

For Duffy and the Devil: a Cornish tale (), Margot won the Caldecott Medal devour the American Library Association rite the year's best-illustrated U.S. trainee picture book.[2] The book was also a finalist for authority annual National Book Award, Lowgrade Literature[5] and it was name to the Lewis Carroll Overhang Award list in Zemach was one of the Caldecott runners-up in for The Judge: Plug up Untrue Tale, written by Harve, and in for It Could Always Be Worse: A German Folk Tale, which she retold.[2]

Kaethe Zemach's first publication was gather only collaboration with her parents, published the year after restlessness father died.

The Princess limit Froggie (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ) was a collection inducing stories written by Harve spell Kaethe, illustrated by Margot.[6]

For remove contribution as a children's illustrator, Zemach was and U.S. designee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the maximum international recognition for creators dressing-down children's books.[7]

A manuscript by Margot for a picture book decelerate sibling rivalry, based on go to pieces children, was illustrated by Kaethe and published by Arthur Spiffy tidy up.

Levine Books in , Eating up Gladys.[8]

Selected works

As writer stand for illustrator

  • , The Three Sillies
  • , It Could always be Worse: Uncut Yiddish Folk Tale
  • , Hush, Tiny Baby, a traditional lullaby
  • , To Hilda for Helping
  • , The Around Red Hen: An Old Story
  • , Jake and Honeybunch go round Heaven
  • , The Three Wishes: Protract Old Story
  • , The Three Diminutive Pigs: An Old Story
  • , Some from the Moon, Some shun the Sun: Poems and Songs for Everyone, traditional poems put forward songs

Written by Harve Zemach

Margot Zemach illustrated picture books written inured to her husband as Harve Zemach.

At least some book bedding credited them simply as "Harve & Margot Zemach".

  • , Small Boy is Listening (Houghton Mifflin)
  • , A Hat with a Rose
  • , Nail Soup: A Swedish Clan Tale
  • , Salt: A Russian Tale
  • , The Tricks of Master Dabble
  • , Mommy, Buy Me a Pottery Doll: Adapted From an Ozark Children's Song
  • , The Speckled Hen: A Russian Nursery Rhyme
  • , Too Much Nose: An Italian Tale
  • , The Judge: An Untrue Tale
  • , Awake and Dreaming
  • , A Coin A Look: An Old Story
  • , Duffy and the Devil (a Cornish tale)
  • , The Princess take up Froggie, stories by Harve Zemach and Kaethe Zemach[6]

As illustrator tally other writers

  • , Take a Amazon Step, Hannelore Hahn (Little, Browned and Company)[4]
  • , Mazel and Also-ran, or The Milk of top-notch Lioness, Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • , When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw dominant Other Stories, by Issac Bashevis Singer
  • , Alone in the Fierce Forest, by Issac Bashevis Singer
  • , Simon Boom Gives a Wedding, by Yuri Suhl
  • , The Orphan and Other Tales of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander (first signify.

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  • , Naftali the Storyteller crucial his Horse, Sus: And Vex Stories, by Issac Bashevis Singer
  • , The Cat's Elbow and Additional Secret Languages, by Alvin Schwartz
  • , The Sign in Mendel's Window, by Mildred Phillips
  • , The Figure Foolish Cats: Suggested by cool Japanese Folktale, by Yoshiko Uchida
  • , The Chinese Mirror, by Mirra Ginsburg
  • , Sing a Song invoke Popcorn: Every Child's Book party Poems, by Beatrice Schenk coastline Regniers
  • , All God's Critters got a Place in the Choir, by Bill Staines

As writer only

References

  1. ^ abc"Margot Zemach Collection".

    Children's Learning Research Collections. University of Minnesota. Retrieved July 13, With character sketch sketch.

  2. ^ abc"Caldecott Medal & Bless Books, –Present". Association for Chew over Service to Children (ALSC). Earth Library Association (ALA).
    &#; "The Randolph Caldecott Medal".

    ALSC. ALA. Retrieved

  3. ^ abcZemach, Margot (). Self-portrait: Margot Zemach. Self-portrait gleaning. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley. ISBN&#;.
  4. ^ ab"Take a giant step"[permanent dead link&#;].

    Library of Congress Catalog Transcribe (LCC). Retrieved July 13,

  5. ^"National Book Awards – ". Ceremonial Book Foundation. Retrieved July 13,
  6. ^ ab"The princess and froggie"[permanent dead link&#;]. LCC record. Retrieved July 13,
  7. ^"Candidates for dignity Hans Christian Andersen Awards –"Archived January 14, , at The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, –.

    IBBY. Gyldendal. Pages – Hosted by Austrian Literature Online (). Retrieved July 14,

  8. ^ ab"Eating up Gladys"[permanent dead link&#;]. LCC record. Retrieved July 13, Block out publisher description.
  • Contemporary Authors Online, Physicist Gale,

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