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{{short description|American children's illustrator and writer (born 1953)}}
'''Paul O. Zelinsky''' is an American author and illustrator. He grew up in [[Wilmette, Illinois]], and studied at [[Yale]] under [[Maurice Sendak]]. His writing career began in 1978 and since then he won the 1998 [[Caldecott Medal]] for his illustrated retelling of [[Rapunzel]] and three Caldecott honors (for Hansel and Gretel (1985), Rumpelstiltskin (1987), and Swamp Angel (1995)). He lives in [[New York, New York]]. His most popular book is ''Wheels on the Bus'', which has sold millions. Zelinsky enjoys a quiet life in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
{{distinguish|Paul Zielinski|Paul Zellinsky}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2014}}'''Paul Oser Zelinsky'''<ref>{{cite book |last=Horn Book |title=The Newbery & Caldecott Medal Books, 1986-2000: A Comprehensive Guide to the Winners |date=2001 |publisher=American Library Association |isbn=0-8389-3505-2 |pages=287 |url=https://archive.org/details/newberycaldecott00asso_7/page/n3/mode/2up |access-date=14 December 2023}}</ref> (born 1953)<!--Ext link LCCN cites Llanas (2012)--> is an American illustrator and writer who illustrated [[Children's literature|children's]] [[picture books]]. He won the 1998 [[Caldecott Medal]] for U.S. picture book illustration for ''[[Rapunzel (book)|Rapunzel]]''. His most popular work is ''The Wheels On the Bus'', a best-selling [[movable book]].<ref name="Roback" />
 
Zelinsky had been runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1985, 1987, and 1995, the latter for ''[[Swamp Angel (children's book)|Swamp Angel]]'' by [[Anne Isaacs]] ([[Dutton Children's Books|Dutton]], 1994). Twenty years later, they were joint runners-up for the [[Phoenix Picture Book Award]] from the [[Children's Literature Association]], which annually recognizes the best picture book that did not win a significant award 20 years earlier. "Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations but for the way pictures and text work together."<ref name=picture>[http://www.childlitassn.org/phoenix-picture-book-award "Phoenix Picture Book Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219090943/http://www.childlitassn.org/phoenix-picture-book-award |date=2016-12-19 }}. <!--2014-07-11, as yet the only page for the picture book award (but see Phoenix Award), and already updated with blurbs for the 2015/1995 books--> Children's Literature Association. Retrieved 2014-07-11.</ref>
==Paul O. Zelinsky's Books==
Paul O. Zelinsky has '''illustrated''' many books:
 
==Biography==
THE SHIVERS IN THE FRIDGE By Fran Manushkin
 
===Early life===
TOYS GO OUT By Emily Jenkins
 
Paul O. Zelinsky was born in [[Evanston, Illinois]], and grew up in [[Wilmette, Illinois|Wilmette]]. As a child, he spent much of his time drawing. He would make up imaginary worlds with his friends and draw them. When he was only four, he submitted work to ''[[Highlights for Children|Highlights]]'' magazine, and this is when his artwork was first showcased. Influential early childhood books included ''[[The Color Kittens]]'' and ''[[Tawny Scrawny Lion]]''. Regarding his memories of childhood reading, Zelinsky said, "Feelings come to me as a sort of flavor. I know that when I call up my earliest memories, what I remember seeing and hearing is accompanied by a flavor-like sense of what it felt like to be ''there'' and see ''that''."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Silvey |first1=Anita |title=Children's Books and their Creators |date=1995 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Juvenile Books |isbn=0395653800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=graiX5o4tMYC |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref> (This phenomenon is known as [[synesthesia]].) Later in his childhood, his favorite authors were [[William Pène du Bois]] and [[Robert Lawson (author)|Robert Lawson]]. He especially loved the books ''[[The Twenty-One Balloons]]'' by Du Bois, and ''The Fabulous Flight'' by Lawson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul O. Zelinsky: author essay |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/author/?authorid=228153 |website=Penguin Random House |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>
THE STORY OF MRS. LOVEWRIGHT AND PURRLESS HER CAT By Lore Segal
 
===Career===
DOODLER DOODLING By Rita Golden Gelman
 
At [[New Trier High School]], Zelinsky was interested in natural history and architecture and saw himself following one of those paths for a career. However, he went to study at [[Yale]]. He took a class taught by [[Maurice Sendak]] on the history and art of children's books, and it inspired him to a career in the area. Zelinsky attended the [[Tyler School of Art]] graduate school in [[Philadelphia]] and [[Rome]]. Renaissance and Italian art have always fascinated him, and this time in his life also influenced this love. His career in children's books began in 1978 with the illustrations for [[Edward Irving Wortis|Avi]]'s ''Emily Upham's Revenge''. Since then, he has continued illustrating others' work and creating his own books. He won the 1998 [[Caldecott Medal]] for his illustrated retelling of ''[[Rapunzel (book)|Rapunzel]]'' and three [[Caldecott Honor]]s (for ''[[Hansel and Gretel]]'' (1985), ''[[Rumpelstiltskin]]'' (1987), and ''[[Swamp Angel (children's book)|Swamp Angel]]'' (1995)). His most popular book, ''[[Wheels on the Bus (book)|Wheels On the Bus]]'', has sold millions.<ref name="Roback">{{cite web |title=All-time Bestselling Children's Books |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/28595-all-time-bestselling-children-s-books.html |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>
AWFUL OGRE'S AWFUL DAY By Jack Prelutsky
 
==Artistic style==
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT By E. Nesbit
 
Zelinsky does not have a recognizable style, suiting his artwork and techniques to the particular nature of the book to be illustrated. According to Linnea Lannon in the artist profile ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'', "What has raised Zelinsky into the first rank of children's book illustrators is not just the pictures but the way they integrate with text."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Linney |first1=Laura |title=Detroit Free Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/99634509/ |access-date=6 June 2021 |date=6 July 1998}}</ref> Zelinsky says, "I want the pictures to speak in the same voice as the words. This desire has led me to try various kinds of drawings in different books. I have used quite a wide stretch of styles, and I'm fortunate to have been asked to illustrate such a range of stories."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul O. Zelinsky |url=http://lookingglassreview.com/html/paul_o__zelinsky.html |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=lookingglassreview.com}}</ref> ''[[Wheels on the Bus (book)|Wheels On the Bus]]'' and ''Knick-Knack Paddywhack!'' are [[Pop-up book|engineered books]] with moving parts. Zelinsky is not a paper engineer himself; Rodger Smith engineered ''Wheels On the Bus'' and Andrew Baron ''Knick-Knack Paddywhack!''<ref name="Larson">{{cite book |last1=Larson Bluemel |first1=Nancy |title=Pop-up Books: A Guide for Teachers and Librarians |date=2012 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=978-1591583981 |pages=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3LhLBbBV8kC&q=%22wheels+on+the+bus%22+Paul+Zelinsky+paper+engineering&pg=PA12 |access-date=6 June 2021}}</ref>
SWAMP ANGEL By Anne Isaacs
 
==Books==
MORE ROOTABAGAS By Carl Sandburg
 
;As a writer and illustrator
THE ENCHANTED CASTLE By E. Nesbit
* ''[[The Maid and the Mouse and the Odd-Shaped House: A Story in Rhyme]]'' (1981) – adapted from a school exercise
* ''[[The Lion and the Stoat]]'' ([[Greenwillow Books]], 1984) – based in part on natural history by [[Pliny the Elder]] {{LCCN|83016326}}
* ''[[Rumpelstiltskin]]'', retold (1986) – Brothers Grimm
* ''[[Wheels on the Bus (book)|Wheels On the Bus]]'', paper engineer [[Rodger Smith (paper engineer)|Rodger Smith]] ([[Dutton Children's Books|Dutton]], 1990) – adapted from [[The Wheels on the Bus|the children's folk song]] {{OCLC|22582572}}; "A Book with Parts that Move" — Cover {{OCLC|850027738}}
* ''[[Rapunzel (book)|Rapunzel]]'', retold (1997) – from the [[Brothers Grimm]] (1812)
* ''[[Knick-Knack Paddywhack!]]'', paper engineer [[Andrew Baron (paper engineer)|Andrew Baron]] ([[Dutton Children's Books|Dutton]], 2002) – adapted from the nursery rhyme "[[This Old Man]]"; "A Moving Parts Book Adapted from the Counting Song" — Cover {{OCLC|865205168}}
 
;As illustrator
STRIDER By Beverly Cleary
* ''[[Emily Upham's Revenge, or How Deadwood Dick Saved the Banker's Niece: A Massachusetts Adventure]]'', written by [[Edward Irving Wortis|Avi]] ([[Pantheon Books]], 1978)
* ''[[How I Hunted the Little Fellows]]'', [[Boris Zhitkov]], transl. from [[Russia|Russian]] by [[Djemma Bider]] ([[Dodd, Mead]], 1979)
* ''[[The History of Helpless Harry, to Which is Added a Variety of Amusing and Entertaining Adventures]]'', [[Edward Irving Wortis|Avi]] (1980)
* ''[[What Amanda Saw]]'', [[Naomi Lazard]] (1981)
* ''[[Three Romances: Love Stories from Camelot Retold]]'', [[Winifred Rosen]] (1981)
* ''[[Ralph S. Mouse]]'', [[Beverly Cleary]] (1982)
* ''[[The Sun's Asleep Behind the Hill]]'', [[Mirra Ginsburg]] (1982) – adapted from an [[Armenia|Armenian]] song
* ''[[The Song in the Walnut Grove]]'', [[David Kherdian]] (1982)
* ''[[Dear Mr. Henshaw]]'', [[Beverly Cleary]] (1983)
* ''[[Zoo Doings: Animal Poems]]'', [[Jack Prelutsky]] (1983)
* ''[[Hansel and Gretel]]'', retold by [[Rika Lesser]] (1984)
* ''[[The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Her Purrless Cat]]'', [[Lore Segal]] (1985)
* ''[[The Random House Book of Humor for Children]]'', selected by [[Pamela Pollack]] (1988)
* ''[[The Big Book for Peace]]'', [[Myra Cohn Livingston]] (1990)
* ''[[Strider (novel)|Strider]]'', [[Beverly Cleary]] (1991)
* ''[[The Enchanted Castle]]'', [[E. Nesbit]] (1992; orig. 1907)
* ''[[More Rootabagas]]'', posthumous collection by [[Carl Sandburg]], ed. [[George Hendrick]] (1993)
* ''Swamp Angel'', [[Anne Isaacs]] ([[Dutton Children's Books]], 1994)<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-isaacs/swamp-angel "SWAMP ANGEL by Anne Isaacs&nbsp;{...}"]. ''Kirkus Reviews''. October 15, 1994. Retrieved 2014-07-16.</ref>
* ''[[Five Children and It]]'', [[E. Nesbit]] (1999; orig. 1902)
* ''[[Awful Ogre's Awful Day]]'', [[Jack Prelutsky]] (2000) – poems
* ''[[Doodler Doodling]]'', [[Rita Golden Gelman]] (2004)<!--or 2003 worldcat.org/title/doodler-doodling/oclc/232513130 -->
* ''[[Toys Go Out]]'' series, children's novels by [[Emily Jenkins]], published by [[Schwartz & Wade]] <!-- novels or story collections, not picture books; for ages 7-10 or so per WorldCat library records -->
** ''[[Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone called Plastic]]'' (2006)
** ''[[Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone called Plastic]]'' (2008)
** ''[[Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stingray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone called Plastic]]'' (2011)
** <!--fc--> ''[[Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-Loving Rubber Ball]]'' (forthcoming 2015)<ref>[http://lccn.loc.gov/2014010935 "Toys meet snow: being the wintertime adventures of a curious stuffed&nbsp;..."]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-07-16.</ref>
* ''[[The Shivers in the Fridge]]'', [[Fran Manushkin]] (2006)
* ''[[Awful Ogre Running Wild]]'', [[Jack Prelutsky]] (2008) – poems
* ''Dust Devil'', [[Anne Isaacs]] ([[Random House]]/[[Schwartz & Wade]], 2010)<!--evidently not Atheneum 2006 or 2008, contrary to some WorldCat records--> – sequel to ''[[Swamp Angel (children's book)|Swamp Angel]]''<ref>[http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2010/08/27/review-of-the-day-dust-devil-by-anne-isaacs "Review of the Day: ''Dust Devil'' by Anne Isaacs"]. Elizabeth Bird. August 27, 2010. Retrieved 2014-07-16.</ref><ref>[http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-isaacs/dust-devil-isaacs "DUST DEVIL by Anne Isaacs&nbsp;{...}"]. ''Kirkus Reviews''. September 1, 2010. Retrieved 2014-07-16.</ref><ref>[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/43991-paul-o-zelinsky-s-bookmaking-saga.html "Paul O. Zelinsky's Bookmaking Saga"]. Sally Lodge. July 29, 2010. ''Publishers Weekly''. Retrieved 2014-07-16.</ref>
*<!--new-->''[[Z is for Moose]]'', [[Kelly Bingham]] (2012)
* <!--new--> ''[[Earwig and the Witch]]'', [[Diana Wynne Jones]] (2012)
*<!--new-->''[[Circle, Square, Moose]]'', [[Kelly Bingham]] (2014) – sequel to ''[[Z is for Moose]]''
 
==References==
THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK OF HUMOR FOR CHILDREN Collected by Pamela Pollack
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==Further reading==
HANSEL AND GRETEL Retold by Rika Lesser
* Llanas, Sheila Griffin (2012). ''Paul O. Zelinsky'', Minneapolis, MN: ABDO Pub. Co., {{ISBN|978-1617832505}}, 24 pp., illustrated. {{OCLC|743298815}}
 
==External links==
DEAR MR. HENSHAW By Beverly Cleary
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* {{Official website}}
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051028083937/http://friend.ly.net/users/jorban/biographies/zelinskypaul/index.html Biographical sketch from ''The Scoop'']
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-o-zelinsky-children-s-author Essay on Zelinsky and his work]
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/6aa/6aa166.htm Exhibition notes: ''Angels to Ogres'']
* {{LCAuth|n78039346|Paul O. Zelinsky|48|}}
 
{{Authority control}}
ZOO DOINGS by Jack Prelutsky
 
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THE SUN'S ASLEEP BEHIND THE HILL By Mirra Ginsburg
[[Category:1953 births]]
 
[[Category:American children's book illustrators]]
THE SONG IN THE WALNUT GROVE By David Kherdian
[[Category:American children's writers]]
 
[[Category:American fantasy artists]]
RALPH S. MOUSE By Beverly Cleary
[[Category:Caldecott Medal winners]]
 
[[Category:20th-century American illustrators]]
WHAT AMANDA SAW By Naomi Lazard
[[Category:Illustrators of fairy tales]]
 
[[Category:Living people]]
THREE ROMANCES By Winifred Rosen
[[Category:21st-century American illustrators]]
 
THE HISTORY OF HELPLESS HARRY By Avi
 
HOW I HUNTED THE LITTLE FELLOWS By Boris Zhitkov
 
EMILY UPHAM'S REVENGE By Avi
 
Paul O. Zelinsky has also '''written and illustrated''' books.
 
KNICK-KNACK PADDYWHACK! Adapted by Paul O. Zelinsky
 
RAPUNZEL Retold by Paul O. Zelinsky
 
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS Adapted by Paul O. Zelinsky
 
RUMPELSTILTSKIN Retold by Paul O. Zelinsky
 
THE LION AND THE STOAT By Paul O. Zelinsky
 
THE MAID AND THE MOUSE AND THE ODD-SHAPED HOUSE Adapted by Paul O. Zelinsky
 
==External Links==
[http://www.paulozelinsky.com/ Paul O. Zelinsky website]
[http://www.paulozelinsky.com/paul.html Bio from Website]
 
[[Category:Caldecott Medal winners|Zelinsky, Paul]]