Uri Shulevitz

Caldecott-winning Artist & Writer, Uri Shulevitz, talks to Giuseppe Castellano about how he went from fleeing the Nazi’s in 1939, to publishing his first picture book with Harper & Row in 1963; why he thought his career in picture books was over before it really began; why he wrote Writing with Pictures (and how the beloved book almost didn’t happen); why he thinks illustrators should give up on the idea of the “perfect picture”; and more.

To learn more about Uri, visit urishulevitz.com.

To purchase Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books, find it at—or order it from—a local book store.

Artists mentioned in this episode include: Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo, Tintoretto, Titian, Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Arnold Lobel, Margot Zemach, and Ezra Jack Keats

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