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  • Paul Galdone (June 2, 1907

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    A Short Autobiography
    by Paul Galdone

    When I was about fourteen my family and I left Budapest. On arrival in New Jersey I was promptly enrolled in high school. The Hungarian language did not prove very useful in the United States and in an effort to get me over the barrier I had to attend three English classes every day in addition to a biology class. When it came my turn to read from Shakespeareʼs ”Midsummers Night Dream”, I was highly embarrassed. Not only did I have an accent that amused the whole class, but I also failed to understand most of what I was trying to read. In the biology class, however, I felt more successful. It was discovered that I was proficient in the drawing of grasshoppers I was soon drawing them for all the other pupils.

    Shortly afterward, we moved to New York City. To help support my family in the struggle to get started, I worked for the day as a busboy, electrician’s helper on unfinished skyscrapers, fur-dyer, and so on. At night I attended art schools: The Art Students League and The New York School of Industrial Design. Eventually, four years of working in the Art Department of Doubleday & Company determined my direction. I loved everything in the world of book production; as well as the people and the challenges, there I had a chance to design my first book jacket. That led into free-lancing.

    I lived in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, and while I free-lanced and built up a busy career in book jacket designing, I kept up my interest in the fine arts by drawing and painting and by long sketching vacations in Vermont.

    After four years spent in the US Army Engineer Corps during World War ll during which I contributed to Yank Magazine in my spare time, I settled down in Rockland County, New York — with my wife and, eventually, two children and assorted animals. There I resumed free-lancing, leaning more and more toward illustrating children’s books.

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    Paul Galdone (1907 - 1986)

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    Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary

    Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    [spouse(s) unknown]

    [children unknown]

    Died at age 79in Nyack, New York, USA

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    Paul Galdone was born in 1907 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. In 1921 he emigrated to the United States where he served in the United States Army during World War II. Paul Galdone is best known for writing the children's book, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and for illustrating the books of Eve Titus. He also illustrated "The Tailypo: A Ghost Story", told by Joanna C. Galdone. He passed away in 1986.

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    Name: Paul Galdone Birth Year: 1907 Race: White, citizen (White) Nativity State or Country: Hungary State of Residence: New York County or City: New York Enlistment Date: 19 Mar 1942 Enlistment State: New York Enlistment City: Camp Upton Yaphank Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Grade: Private Grade Code: Private Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men) Source: Civil Life Education: 2 years of high school Civil Occupation: Commercial artists Marital status: Married Height: 69 Weight: 152

    • 1940 United States Federal Census

    Name: Paul Galdone Respondent: Yes Age: 32 Estimated birth year: abt 1908 Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Hungary Marital status: Single Relation to Head of House: Head Home in 1940: New York, New York, New York Map of Home in 1940: View Map Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, New York Residence in 1935: New York, New York Resident on farm in 1935: No Citizenship: Naturalized Sheet Number: 65A Number of Household in Order

    About the Author

    Paul Galdone was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1907 and immigrated to the United States in 1928. Though he was also a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a writer and illustrator of children's books. During his early career Galdone worked in the art department at Doubleday where he designed a show more successful book jacket. The experience led him to believe that he could make a living as a freelance illustrator. He left behind the working world of New York City when he and his wife moved to rural Rockland County, New York. Many of Galdone's works are adaptations of fairy tales and folktales. Some of these are The House that Jack Built (1961), Cinderella (1978), and Three Aesop Fox Fables (1971). He illustrated the well-known Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars and sequels written by Ellen MacGregor. He has illustrated works by John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Lear, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. During his career he illustrated over 100 books and wrote and illustrated several dozen others. Galdone was twice runner up for the Caldecott Medal, in 1957 and 1958. Paul Galdone died in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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    Works by Paul Galdone

    Associated Works

    Paul Revere's Ride(1860) — Illustrator, some editions — 2,150 copies, 30 reviews
    Full Moon(1947) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,076 copies, 26 reviews
    Anatole(1956) — Illustrator, some editions — 979 copies, 12 reviews
    Grandfather and I(1994) — Illustrator, some editions — 520 copies, 60 reviews
    Your Skin and Mine(1965) — Illustrator, some editions — 483 copies, 4 reviews
    Grandmother and I(1994) — Illustrator, some editions — 386 copies, 18 reviews
    Three Blind Mice(1979) — Illustrator, some editions — 263 co

    Entry updated 13 May 2024. Tagged: Artist.

    (1907-1986) American artist, born in Hungary, who moved to the United States at the age of fourteen. At some time he received artistic training at the Art Students' League and the New York School for Industrial Design, but he did not begin working for book publishers until after World War II. While he became best known for his work in children's books, Galdone also worked four years for Doubleday, garnering a few assignments to provide covers for adult books, including C M Kornbluth's The Syndic (1953), unusually illustrated with sketches of futuristic buildings and a row of armed soldiers. In a similar style, his cover for Kenneth F Gantz's Not in Solitude (1959) featured two spacesuited astronauts on a barren Martian landscape (see Mars).

    Galdone's work for children's literature included covers and interior art for some fondly remembered works of Children's SF: Ruthven Todd's Space Cat (1952) and its three sequels; Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs (1962); and the first four books in Ellen MacGregor's Miss Pickerell series. His first cover for MacGregor, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (May 1950 Liberty Magazine as "Swept Her Into Space"; much exp 1951), captured the spirit of the series by showing its titular heroine in an apron, standing next to her beloved cow and staring up at a Spaceship. He also illustrated all of the books in Eve Titus's Basil of Baker Street series, beginning with Basil of Baker Street (1958), which had a cover of a Mouse dressed like Sherlock Holmes examining the ground with a microscope. Since Galdone typically used little colour in his covers, later editions of these books often provide full-colour versions of his original images, but the fact that they were reused testifies to the fact that they remain appealing to younger readers. Galdone received Caldecott Award nominations for illustrating two other Titus books featuring mice, An

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