Picture of author.
42+ teosta 7,630 jäsentä 430 arvostelua 5 Favorited

Tietoja tekijästä

Peter Sis was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a filmmaker and won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix näytä lisää Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award, and in 1983 collaborated with Bob Dylan on You Got to Serve Somebody. His film work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1982 Sis was sent to Los Angeles to produce a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics. But the film project was canceled when Czechoslovakia and the entire Eastern bloc decided to boycott the Olympics. Ordered by his government to return home, Sis decided to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. Sis then met Maurice Sendak who introduced him to children's books, and he moved to New York City in 1984 to begin a career in children's literature. Sís earned quick acclaim with the publication of the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner, The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman, for which he did the illustrations. Sis is a five-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.. Komodo! and A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North were each named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, and he has won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Komodo! and a Silver Medal for The Three Golden Keys. Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book, as was Tibet Through the Red Box. Sis has also received a MacArthur Fellowship Sis' editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines in the United States and abroad. He has published nearly 1,000 drawings in The New York Times Book Review. He has designed many book jackets and posters, including, in 1984, the famous poster for Milos Forman's Academy Award-winning motion picture Amadeus. He has also completed a mural for the Washington/Baltimore Airport, a poster for the New York City subway system, and a stage set for the Joffrey Ballet. His work has been exhibited in Prague, London, Zurich, Hamburg, Los Angeles, and New York in both group and one-man shows. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Matěj Baťha

Tekijän teokset

Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei (1996) 1,167 kappaletta
The Train of States (2004) 500 kappaletta
Tibet: Through the Red Box (1998) 472 kappaletta
Madlenka (2000) 422 kappaletta
Fire Truck (1998) 317 kappaletta
The Conference of the Birds (2011) 315 kappaletta
The Three Golden Keys (1994) — Tekijä — 279 kappaletta
Komodo! (1993) 166 kappaletta
Ice Cream Summer (2015) 152 kappaletta
Madlenka's Dog (2002) 147 kappaletta
Play, Mozart, Play! (2006) 136 kappaletta
Trucks Trucks Trucks (1999) 132 kappaletta
Ballerina! (2001) 128 kappaletta
Alphabet Soup (1988) — Kuvittaja — 106 kappaletta
Robinson (2017) 102 kappaletta
Rainbow Rhino (1987) 94 kappaletta
Dinosaur! (2000) 86 kappaletta
Madlenka Soccer Star (2010) 68 kappaletta
An Ocean World (1868) 47 kappaletta
Ship Ahoy! (1999) 43 kappaletta
Beach Ball (1707) 27 kappaletta
Waving: A Counting Book (1988) 26 kappaletta
Going Up!: A Color Counting Book (1989) 21 kappaletta
Three Yellow Dogs (1986) — Kuvittaja — 8 kappaletta
Tři zlaté klíče (2001) 3 kappaletta
Komodo (2016) 1 kappale
Madlenka Doll (2001) 1 kappale
Madlenka 1 kappale
NICKY 6 VERA (2022) 1 kappale
Ballerina 1 kappale

Associated Works

Hobitti, eli Sinne ja takaisin (1937) — Kansikuvataiteilija, eräät painokset93,757 kappaletta
Hyppy ajassa (1962) — Kansikuvataiteilija, eräät painokset39,133 kappaletta
A Wind in the Door (1973) — Kansikuvataiteilija, eräät painokset12,603 kappaletta
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) — Kansikuvataiteilija, eräät painokset11,946 kappaletta
Many Waters (1986) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset7,970 kappaletta
The Whipping Boy (1986) — Kuvittaja — 7,725 kappaletta
Kuvitteellisten olentojen kirja (1957) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset2,690 kappaletta
Tuulen laulu (2000) — Kuvittaja — 1,816 kappaletta
The Dreamer (2010) — Kuvittaja — 1,240 kappaletta
Ylivaltiaan orjat (2001) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset1,058 kappaletta
Tulilaulu (2002) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset983 kappaletta
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight (1993) — Kuvittaja — 959 kappaletta
Kertomus tuntemattomasta saaresta (1997) — Kuvittaja — 956 kappaletta
Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Kuvittaja — 764 kappaletta
Paperitalo (2004) — Kuvittaja — 679 kappaletta
Scranimals (2002) — Kuvittaja — 473 kappaletta
Stories to Solve (1985) — Kuvittaja — 453 kappaletta
The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story (1995) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset433 kappaletta
Imaginary Lands (1985) — Kansikuvataiteilija, eräät painokset352 kappaletta
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Avustaja — 342 kappaletta
The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House (1968) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset309 kappaletta
Haamu keskipäivän auringossa (1965) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset273 kappaletta
Monday's Troll (1996) — Kuvittaja — 236 kappaletta
A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (2004) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset234 kappaletta
The Midnight Horse (1990) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset233 kappaletta
More Stories to Solve (1991) — Kuvittaja — 220 kappaletta
The Gargoyle on the Roof (1999) — Kuvittaja — 138 kappaletta
The Dream Stealer (2009) — Kuvittaja — 123 kappaletta
The Little Wing Giver (1997) — Kuvittaja — 85 kappaletta
Still More Stories to Solve (1817) — Kuvittaja — 76 kappaletta
The Magician's Apprentice (2012) — Kuvittaja — 57 kappaletta
Rumpelstiltskin (1678) — Kuvittaja — 23 kappaletta
Tales of the Amber Ring (1981) — Kuvittaja — 10 kappaletta
A Gopher in the Garden and Other Animal Poems (1967) — Kuvittaja, eräät painokset6 kappaletta
Higgledy Piggledy (1986) — Kuvittaja — 4 kappaletta
After Good-Night (1987) — Kuvittaja — 3 kappaletta

Merkitty avainsanalla

1900-luku (570) Aikamatkustus (1,604) chapter book (466) children's fiction (535) Fantasiakirjallisuus (20,468) fiktio (13,295) haltiat (473) Hobitti (1,162) Keski-Maa (1,829) Kirjallisuus (1,137) Klassikko (1,942) klassikot (1,635) kuvakirja (816) kääpiöt (567) lapset (1,143) lasten (2,584) Lastenkirjallisuus (1,318) Lohikäärme (826) luettavaksi (3,177) luettu (2,297) Newbery (471) Newbery-mitali (767) nuoret aikuiset (2,750) nuoriso (534) oma (860) Romaani (1,448) Runous (505) Sarja (1,301) Science Fiction/Fantasy (452) scifi ja fantasia (693) seikkailu (2,185) SF (459) suosikit (578) Taikuus (763) Taru sormusten herrasta (1,237) Taskukirja (543) Tieteisfiktio (4,986) Tietokirjallisuus (561) Tolkien (2,715) Ya (1,655)

Yleistieto

Kanoninen nimi
Sís, Peter
Syntymäaika
1949-05-11
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
USA
Czechoslovakia (birth)
Syntymäpaikka
Brno, Czech Republic
Asuinpaikat
Brno, Czech Republic (birth)
Prague, Czech Republic
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Koulutus
Royal College of Art
Ammatit
writer
Illustrator
filmmaker
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Golden Bear Award (1980 West Berlin Film Festival)
Grand Prix Toronto
Cine Golden Eagle Award
MacArthur Fellowship (2003)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2011)
Hans Christian Andersen Award (2012)
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1949, he began his film career by winning the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. His film work is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He turned to publishing in 1984 and quickly became one of the leading artists in the field. With more than twenty books to his credit and almost as many honors, Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Most recently, in 2007, he published The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain, which was awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal and was also named a Caldecott Honor Book. Peter Sís was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. He lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.

Jäseniä

Kirja-arvosteluja

Beautiful, appropriately medieval, both spare and maximalist. Makes me want to read the original next.
 
Merkitty asiattomaksi
localgayangel | 22 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 5, 2024 |
In explaining why he wrote this book, award winning author and illustrator Peter Sis said, "I was always looking up the celebrated adventures, explorers, inventors, and dreamers. But I had not paid enough attention to the reluctant and quiet heroes. Here was a man who would see something wrong and do something to correct it, but who never claimed to be a hero." How lucky we are that Sis learned of Nicholas Winston's story and the children he helped like Vera Gissing. This inspirational story provides a different look into WWII. It is also a timely topic, with refugees fleeing conflict today, and provokes discussion of this issue with young readers and adults.… (lisätietoja)
 
Merkitty asiattomaksi
AnnesLibrary | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 28, 2024 |
Peter Sis delves into childhood memories and his father's diary to create a book for young readers filled quite literally with wonder and magic. As a child, Sis' father disappeared to Tibet for many months, and returned with secrets that took years to gradually divulge to his son. Less a travelogue and more an exploration of our shared inner psychologies and myths, Tibet transports and transforms.
 
Merkitty asiattomaksi
vverse23 | 18 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 9, 2024 |
Another marvelous book for young readers by Peter Sis. Not so much a biography to be read as an exploration in words and art of a life to be explored and browsed. Highly recommended for middle and high school readers.
 
Merkitty asiattomaksi
vverse23 | 24 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 9, 2024 |

Listat

Palkinnot

You May Also Like

Associated Authors

Tilastot

Teokset
42
Also by
38
Jäseniä
7,630
Suosituimmuussija
#3,202
Arvio (tähdet)
4.1
Kirja-arvosteluja
430
ISBN:t
230
Kielet
16
Kuinka monen suosikki
5

Taulukot ja kaaviot