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Mordicai Gerstein

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http://www.mordicaigerstein.com/

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Children's Books

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Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children’s books from the library: “I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.”

He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humor...more

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Books by Mordicai Gerstein

Average rating: 4.05 · 4475 ratings · 853 reviews · 74 distinct works

	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers 409 avg rating — 2781 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	My rating:
	A Book 391 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Old Country 374 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Mountains of Tibet 452 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dear Hot Dog 340 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Wild Boy 400 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Carolinda Clatter! 403 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Story of May 452 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Leaving the Nest 371 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	What Charlie Heard 386 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating: