Paul Galdone

Paul Galdone was a Hungarian-American illustrator and writer best known for his children's picture books, including adaptations of classic fairy tales and collaborations like the Anatole series by Eve Titus, for which he received two Caldecott Honors. Born in Budapest in 1907, he emigrated to the United States as a teenager, studied at the Art Students League and New York School of Industrial Design, and illustrated nearly 300 books after working in publishing and serving in World War II. He died of a heart attack in Nyack, New York, in 1986.[1][2][5]