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David Wiesner
, b. 1956
David Wiesner was born in New Jersey, and is an American illustrator and writer and children’s books. His work is well known and well regarded, including Caldecott Medal-winners: Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002), and Flotsam (2007).Wiesner is known for his experimentation with form in visual storytelling (see The Three Pigs, in which the pigs of the well-known folk story burst out of the picture’s frame, and into a new, surreal storyline). In developing Flotsam, he collaborated with leading scholar of transmedia storytelling, Henry Jenkins.
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.au
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