Chris Raschka
American writer
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Chris Raschka is an American illustrator, writer, and violist. He has contributed to children's literature as a children's illustrator.
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| Born | Christopher Raschka Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupations | Author, artist and illustrator |
Early life and education
Raschka was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Though he grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois,[1] he spent part of his childhood in Austria, his mother's homeland.[citation needed]
He is a graduate of St. Olaf College.[citation needed]
Career and awards
Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1994, but Raschka may be most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal, and his book A Ball for Daisy, which won the 2012 Caldecott Medal.[2][3]
He was the U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.[4]
Raschka is the author and illustrator of Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, an introduction to the saxophone player and composer Charlie Parker (Scholastic, 1997).[citation needed]
Selected works
- Another Important Book (illustrator)
- Arlene Sardine[5]
- A Ball for Daisy
- The Blushful Hippopotamus
- Can't Sleep
- Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
- Circle Time (shorts for Playhouse Disney)
- Daisy Gets Lost
- Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg
- Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
- Farmy Farm
- Fishing in the Air (illustrator)
- Five for a Little One
- A Foot in the Mouth (illustrator)
- The Genie in the Jar (illustrator)
- Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More (illustrator)
- Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (illustrator)
- Grump Groan Growl (illustrator)
- Happy to Be Nappy (illustrator)
- The Hello, Goodbye Window (illustrator)
- Hip Hop Dog (author)
- Home at Last (children's book)|Home at Last (illustrator)
- If You Were a Dog
- John Coltrane's Giant Steps
- A Kick in the Head (illustrator)
- Little Black Crow
- Little Tree (illustrator)
- Moosey Moose
- Mysterious Thelonious
- Peter and the Wolf (adaptor, illustrator)
- A Poke in the I (illustrator)
- The Purple Balloon
- Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See, by Megan Dowd Lambert, Charlesbridge, 2015.
- Ring! Yo?
- Seriously, Norman
- Side by Side : A Celebration of Dads[6]
- Simple Gifts: A Shaker Hymn
- Talk To Me About the Alphabet
- Whaley Whale
- Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (illustrator)
- Wormy Worm
- Yo! Yes?
