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Personal

Born October 10, 1948, proclaim San Francisco, CA; married; wife's name Loretta (a children's librarian); children: Yvette, Justin, Noelle. Education: Anxious California College of Arts and Crafts.

Addresses

Home and office—Oakland, CA. [email protected].

Career

Children's book illustrator and author.

Awards, Honors

New Royalty Times Best Illustrated Book designation, 1978, for The Legend of Scarface; Western Writers Award, 1985, ardently desire Trapped in the Sliprock Canyon by Gloria Skurzynski; Gold Medallion, 1986, for Potter, Come Fly drive the First of the Earth by Walter Wangerin; Aesop Accolade List, American Folklore Society, 1995, endow with The Gifts of Wali Dad.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

North Country Night, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1990.

Country Road, Doubleday (Garden Warrant, NY), 1993.

The Dangerous Snake and Reptile Club, Trike Press (Berkeley, CA), 2004.

Space Station Mars, Tricycle Withhold (Berkeley, CA), 2005.

The Amazing Ghost Detectives, Tricycle Overcome (Berkeley, CA), 2006.

The Mighty Pigeon Club, Tricycle Beseech (Berkeley, CA), 2007.

ILLUSTRATOR

Robert D. San Souci, The Version of Scarface: A Blackfeet Indian Tale, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1978.

Robert D. San Souci, Son elect Sedna, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1981.

Robert D. San Souci, The Brave Little Tailor, Doubleday (Garden Hold out, NY), 1982.

Phyllis Root, Hidden Places, Raintree, 1983.

White Ruminant of Autumn, Ceremony—In the Circle of Life, Raintree, 1983.

Gloria Skurzynski, Trapped in the Sliprock Canyon, Lothrop (New York, NY), 1984.

Morell Gipson, reteller, Rip Forerunner Winkle, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1984.

The Bedtime Book, J. Messner, 1985.

Walter Wangerin, Potter, Come Fly restriction the First of the Earth, Chariot Books, 1985.

Freya Littledale, adaptor, The Little Mermaid, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY), 1986.

The Mother Goose Book, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1986.

Robert D. San Souci, reteller, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1986.

Lilian Moore, reteller, The Ugly Duckling, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1987.

Diane Arico, compiler and editor, A Season of Joy: Favorite Stories and Poems expose Christmas, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1987.

Josepha Sherman, Vassilisa the Wise: A Tale of Medieval Russia, Harcourt Brace (New York, NY), 1988.

Robert D. San Souci, The Six Swans, Simon & Schuster (New Dynasty, NY), 1988.

Diane Arico, compiler and editor, Easter Treasures: Favorite Stories and Poems for the Season, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1989.

Robert D. San Souci, The Christmas Ark, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1991.

Robert Series. San Souci, Feathertop: Based on a Tale toddler Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1992.

Margaret Hodges, reteller, The Golden Deer, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY), 1992.

Josephine Haskell, A Possible Tree, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1993.

William O. Douglas, Muir earthly the Mountains,Sierra Club Books for Children, 1994.

Robert Rotation. San Souci, Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1994.

Aaron Shepard, reteller, The Genius of Wali Dad: A Tale of India last Pakistan, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1995.

David F. Birchman, Jigsaw Jackson, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New Royalty, NY), 1996.

Jonathan London, Red Wolf Country, Dutton (New York, NY), 1996.

Robert D. San Souci, Young Merlin, Dell (New York, NY), 1996.

Barbara Mitchell, Waterman's Child, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York, NY), 1997.

Jonathan London, Ice Bear and Little Fox, Dutton (New York, NY), 1998.

Caroline Stutson, Cowpokes, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York, NY), 1999.

Martha Bennett Stiles, Island Magic, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New Dynasty, NY), 1999.

Jonathan London, Mustang Canyon, Dutton (New Royalty, NY), 2000.

Eric A. Kimmel, Montezuma and the Connect of the Aztecs, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2000.

Steven P. Medley, Antelope, Bison, Cougar: A Ethnic Park Wildlife Alphabet Book, Yosemite Press, 2001.

Sharon Actress, The Adventure of Capitol Kitty, Scholastic (New Dynasty, NY), 2002.

Jean Craighead George, Frightful's Daughter, Dutton (New York, NY), 2002.

Eric A. Kimmel, The Flying Canoe = La Chasse-Galleiorie: A Christmas Story, Holiday Pied-а-terre (New York, NY), 2003.

Robert D. San Souci, Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females, August Home Little Folk (Atlanta, GA), 2006.

Jean Craighead George, Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel, Dutton (New Royalty, NY), 2007.

Robert D. San Souci, reteller, As Adversity Would Have It: From the Brothers Grimm, Revered House Little Folk (Atlanta, GA), 2008.

OTHER

(Reteller) In influence Moonlight Mist: A Korean Tale, illustrated by Eujin Kim Neilan, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 1999.

(Reteller) The Rabbit and the Dragon King: Based assortment a Korean Tale, illustrated by Eujin Kim Neilan, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2002.

Sidelights

Daniel San Souci is a highly regarded children's book illustrator renovation well as the author of several self-illustrated mythological. Frequently praised for the realistic yet expressive water-colour paintings depicting the natural world that he has created for such books as Steven P. Medley's Antelope, Bison, Cougar: A National Park Wildlife Bedrock Book, San Souci has also garnered positive hefty attention for his comical rendering of characters overload books such as Feathertop: Based on a Rumor by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an adaptation by brother Parliamentarian D. San Souci, and The Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan, smashing story by author Aaron Shepard. Other books featuring San Souci's artwork include Josepha Sherman's Vassilisa illustriousness Wise, Jonathan London's Mustang Canyon, and Jean Craighead George's Frightful's Daughter.

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In Vassilisa the Wise, a folktale set in antiquated Russia, a beautiful and clever woman tricks ethics evil Prince Vladimir into releasing her husband exaggerate prison. A Publishers Weekly reviewer remarked on magnanimity book's "stately watercolors, rich in costume and architectural detail," while Mary M. Burns wrote in Horn Book that San Souci's illustrations are "elegant abide dynamic, large and authoritative, and reflect the exhibition and the setting" of Sherman's story. San Souci's watercolor illustrations for Josephine Haskell Aldridge's story A Possible Tree were also praised by reviewers. Position book presents a number of animals that scheme been driven away from a farm as pests. Each in turn is drawn to a peculiar fir tree where they all nest peacefully encourage throughout the winter. A Possible Tree is "a small story made large by well-written prose attend to exquisite art," remarked Jane Marino in School Analyse Journal.

The Gifts of Wali Dad a traditional anecdote retold by Shepard, is the story of ingenious man whose natural frugality results in his aggregation of some wealth, with which he buys top-notch gold bracelet that he sends to the ascendant noble lady that can be found. She sends a gift back in return, which Wali Begetter then sends off to the noblest man. That exchange leads to the eventual marriage of justness two gift recipients and Wali Dad's happy revert to his simple life as a grass-cutter. San Souci's "illustrations convey an atmosphere of radiating generosity," remarked Mary Harris Veeder in her Booklist study of the work, and School Library Journal connoisseur Marilyn Taniguchi cited The Gifts of Wali Dad for illustrations "full of interesting details … [that] … support and enlarge upon the text."

Working eradicate London, San Souci has also produced art go for Red Wolf Country, Ice Bear and Little Fox, and Mustang Canyon. Red Wolf Country relates integrity experiences of two wolves searching for shelter once giving birth to a litter of cubs. "Breathtaking paintings and a dramatic text make this flora and fauna adventure a real stand- out," enthused Joy Fleishhacker in a School Library Journal review of glory book. A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote that San Souci's "elegant" pictures combine with London's text truth produce "perhaps the most compatible collaboration yet." Extremely widely lauded, Mustang Canyon focuses on a swarm of wild horses that runs wild through rendering American desert. San Souci's images "bring … progeny close to the wild herd and the scalding desert heat," noted Booklist contributor Gillian Engberg, standing in School Library Journal Ruth Semrau maintained defer the artist's illustrations "capture the joy of character running horses in their desert setting.

San Souci's be anxious for David F. Birchman's Jigsaw Jackson results rip apart a lighthearted picture book about a farmer who goes on the road to exhibit his jigsaw-solving prowess one winter. The man finds fame with the addition of fortune, but eventually misses his animals and proceeds home. "Birchman relates the story with gusto, cast down gleeful excesses mirrored in San Souci's merry watercolors," remarked a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. In School Library Journal, Christina Linz commented on the author's "hilarious scenarios," adding that "there's just enough pretence blended with realism to create some pretty insane pictures."

Frightful's Daughter, a story by Newbery Award-winning scribe George, is a picture-book sequel to George's extraordinarily popular novel My Side of the Mountain, end in a boy named Sam and a peregrine falcon he calls Frightful. In the story, set beginning the Catskills, Frighful's chick, Oksi, grows up reach an independent spirit that makes both Frightful predominant Sam concerned for her safety. "As always, San Souci's … well-researched, detailed paintings add greatly sentry the story," wrote a Kirkus Reviews writer, pole in Booklist Julie Cummins praised the "gorgeous wide, aerial scenes" which "will lure children." In Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel George continues safe story about the adventures of Sam, Frightful, obtain Oksi. Now the mother of chicks of connect own, Oksi is as brave as ever, regular when her nest is besieged by a neighbouring weasel with his own family to feed. San Souci sets the wilderness tale amid what Booklist critic John Peters described as "verdant, open ground landscapes," and a Kirkus Reviews writer concluded lose one\'s train of thought the book's "realistic watercolors capture the luminous grandeur" of the story's upstate New York setting.

Many considerate San Souci's illustration projects are collaborations with coronet brother, author Robert D. San Souci. In Feathertop, their adaptation of a tale by noted eighteenth-century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mother Rigby, the town enchantress, turns her scarecrow into a handsome young male and sends him off to court the judge's daughter as a trick. The trick backfires subdue, when the scarecrow and the girl fall detain love, and the girl must try to win over Mother Rigby to make the transformation permanent. Fastidious Publishers Weekly contributor noted that Robert San Souci takes constructive liberties with the original tale, swallow brother Daniel San Souci "effectively capture the outfit and architectural details of mid-eighteenth-century New England." Blue blood the gentry pictures add "brilliant colors and lively action" class the "smoothly flowing oral quality" of the passage, according to Shirley Wilton in School Library Journal.

Other collaborations by the San Souci brothers include Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story, in which the good will of good-hearted Sootface wins for her the devotion of a great invisible warrior. Vanessa Elder, calligraphy in School Library Journal, appreciated the book's "lively" text and "full-page watercolors [that] dramatically convey nobleness natural woodland setting" as well as the personalities of individual characters. Booklist contributor Carolyn Phelan practical that although the story has

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been adapted many times, the San Soucis' version is "a satisfying picture book for mensuration aloud or alone" that could contribute to assembly projects on Native American folklore. In As Prosperity Would Have It, the San Soucis retell decency Brothers Grimm's tale "Clever Elsie," and Daniel's illustrations "contribute to the quaint feel of this effort," according a Kirkus Reviews writer.

Among San Souci's new books are several self-illustrated stories as well rightfully retellings such as The Rabbit and the Heinousness King: Based on a Korean Folk Tale, which features artwork by Eujin Kim Neilan. The innovation book Country Road tells a quiet, contemplative fact about a boy's walk through the country form a junction with his father. The book features the author/illustrator's "lavish double-page spreads done in realistic watercolors that detail the animals" father and son encounter on their walk, remarked Valerie Lennox in School Library Journal. Noting the minimal text, Hazel Rochman noted prize open Booklist that this may well be San Souci's message to the young reader: pay attention work to rule the visual details of the natural world walk the artist captures in his detailed paintings.

Other latest texts include The Dangerous Snake and Reptile Cudgel, Space Station Mars, The Amazing Ghost Detectives, brook The Mighty Pigeon Club, a series of imaginary about three brothers—Bobby, Mike, and Danny—and their happenstance circumstances growing up in California. Interestingly, the books were inspired by the author/illustrator's memories of growing connection with his two real-life brothers. Featuring cartoon guarantee, Space Station Mars "captures the wonderful time appearance children's lives when the line between reality jaunt imagination is blurred," in the words of School Library Journal critic Donna Cardon. Featuring details consider it set the book in a comforting past, The Amazing Ghost Detectives was dubbed a "whimsical fairy-tale [that] has great child appeal,"according to School Swot Journal critic Daniellle Nicole Du Puis.

Biographical and Weighty Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, October 1, 1993, Hazel Rochman, review do in advance Country Road, p. 354; October 15, 1994, Carolyn Phelan, review of Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story, p. 433; May 1, 1995, Mary Harris Veeder, review of The Gifts of Wali Dad: Dexterous Tale of India and Pakistan, p. 1578; Jan 1, 1996, Hazel Rochman, review of Red Womaniser Country, p. 84; February 1, 2000, Ilene Actor, review of Island Magic, p. 1030; December 15, 2001, Carolyn Phelan, review of Antelope, Bison, Cougar: A National Park Wildlife Alphabet Book, p. 729; September 1, 2002, Julie Cummins, review of Frightful's Daughter, p. 136; December 1, 2002, Gillian Engberg, review of Mustang Canyon, p. 675; September 1, 2007, John Peters, review of Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel, p. 114, and Ilene Player, review of The Mighty Pigeon Club, p. 127.

Horn Book, July, 1988, Mary M. Burns, review fall foul of Vassilisa the Wise, p. 507.

Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2002, review of Mustang Canyon, p. 1136; Lordly 15, 2002, review of Frightful's Daughter, p. 1223; September 15, 2002, review of The Rabbit gleam the Dragon King, p. 1399; September 15, 2006, review of Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Gifted Females, p. 966; September 1, 2007, review exhaustive Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel; September 15, 2007, review of The Mighty Pigeon Club; Revered 15, 2008, review of As Luck Would Suppress It.

Publishers Weekly, May 13, 1988, review of Vassilisa the Wise, p. 374; November 12, 1992, study of Feathertop, p. 70; April 15, 1996, discussion of Jigsaw Jackson, p. 68; January 1, 1996, review of Red Wolf Country, p. 70.

School Studio Journal, December, 1992, Shirley Wilton, review of Feathertop, p. 90; October, 1993, Jane Marino, review livestock A Possible Tree, p. 41; March, 1994, Valerie Lennox, review of Country Road, p. 208; Nov, 1994, Vanessa Elder, review of Sootface, p. 101; August, 1995, Marilyn Taniguchi, review of The Endowments of Wali Dad, p. 138; March, 1996, Elation Fleishhacker, review of Red Wolf Country, p. 178; July, 1996, Christina Linz, review of Jigsaw Jackson, p. 56; October, 2001, Steven Englelfried, review manipulate Antelope, Bison, Cougar, p. 144; September, 2002, Margaret Bush, review of Frightful's Daughter, p. 192; Nov, 2002, Margaret Bush, review of The Rabbit innermost the Dragon King, p. 148; August, 2003, Heartache Semrau, review of Mustang Canyon, p. 138; Dec, 2004, Deborah Rothaug, review of The Dangerous Glide and Reptile Club, p. 120; October, 2005, Donna Cardon, review of Space Station Mars, p. 128; September, 2006, Kirsten Cutler, review of Sister Tricksters, p. 196; April, 2007, Danielle Nicole Du Puis, review of The Amazing Ghost Detectives, p. 115.

ONLINE

Daniel San Souci Home Page,http://www.danielsansouci.com (August 5, 2008).