Year: 2006
Medium: Watercolor, Oil Pastels and Charcoal Pencil
Size: 15 ¼ x 18 ½ in.
Courtesy of the artist and the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature. © Chris Raschka. Image courtesy of the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature.
Horn Book
Chris Raschka
Part of the Bravo! Chris Raschka Exhibit
Year: 2006
Medium: Watercolor, Oil Pastels and Charcoal Pencil
Size: 15 ¼ x 18 ½ in.
Courtesy of the artist and the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature. © Chris Raschka. Image courtesy of the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature.
About Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka is an American illustrator, writer, and violist. He contributed to children's literature as a children's illustrator. He was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012. 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. Rashka was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Though he grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, he spent part of his childhood in Austria, his mother's homeland. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College. Now he currently lives in New York City. Raschka is the author and illustrator of Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, an introduction to the saxophone player and composer Charlie Parker (Scholastic, 1997).
