Peter Sís. FSG/Foster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-38069-4 Following biographies of Darwin and Galileo, Sís celebrates legendary pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). As in The Tree of Life, Sís ...

Twelfth century Persian poet Farid Ud-Din Attar's epic poem The Conference of the Birds is now adapted in a gorgeously illustrated book by Peter Sis. A MacArthur fellow and Caldecott award winner, Sis ...

On a trip to his native Prague in 2009, Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sís and his son Matej stumbled upon a celebration in the National Museum, with crowds of visitors and an enormous cake. Sís and his ...

The MacArthur Fellow and Newberry Medal winner wrote dozens of kid's books with his own children in mind -- but now they've left the nest It's a pleasant coincidence that children's artist and author ...

In this gallery Peter Sis, tells us why he created his book The Pilot and the Little Prince, which tells the story of Antoine de Saint Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, the book that was published ...

Peter Sís is a victim of his own uniqueness. Truly, there is no one like him: a children’s book author of rare intellectual sophistication and ambition; a wholly contemporary illustrator whose ...

Peter Sís is an internationally renowned artist, illustrator, and author, best known for his distinctively detailed and dreamlike illustrations. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) ...

This month saw the release of the first postage stamp designed by illustrator and writer Peter Sís, marking the 200th ...

Aptly named and thoughtfully installed, The Picture Book Odyssey of Peter Sís (at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art through October 27), lets us follow the artist’s footsteps on a pathway that ...

When Peter Sís took his wife and children to Prague a few years ago, he found all traces of Soviet-era repression expunged from the gray city of his youth. It was as if the guard towers and compulsory ...