Jon Klassen by Moranne Keeler, 2016. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (accessed: December 21, 2021).
Jon Klassen
, b. 1981
Jon Klassen (1981) is an award-winning Canadian writer and illustrator. He studied animation at Sheridan College, Ontario and now lives in Los Angeles, CA. He received the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, both for his book This Is Not My Hat from 2012 (a sequel to I Want My Hat Back from 2011, the third book about the hat – We Found a Hat – was published in 2016). He has also illustrated other books, including Lemony Snicket’s The Dark (2013), Bernett’s Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (2014) and Sara Pennypacker’s Pax (2016). His books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Thai.
Bio prepared by Krzysztof Rybak, University of Warsaw, rybak.km@gmail.com
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