![]() ![]() Lynd Ward's books from the early 1930s, novels and woodcuts for adults, just amazing, amazing works - had a huge impact on me." ![]() And I discovered, particularly in art school, wordless storytelling. ![]() ![]() I loved storytelling, visual storytelling. " really just concerned me and the kind of visual things that I liked to do. "Doing books for children started out for me as an artistic exploration," he told Beverly Goldberg of the American Library Association (ALA). Today Wiesner is a picture book creator with worldwide acclaim. As a kid, he read comic books, watched old movies, and experimented with visual storytelling by creating his own silent movies, including one about a kung-fu vampire he titled, "The Saga of Butcula." According to the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt web site, Wiesner was known as "the kid who could draw." He later studied with mentors Tom Sgouros and David Macaulay while attending the Rhode Island School of Design and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Illustration. David Wiesner was born in Bridgewater, New Jersey, on February 5, 1956, and began drawing and painting in childhood. ![]()
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