Small, David, 1945-
Dates
- Existence: 1945-
Biography
David Small is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. His books have been awarded a Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors, among other recognition. He was born and raised in Detroit and began drawing at an early age.
He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Wayne State University and a master of fine arts degree at Yale University. Small taught art for many years on the college level, ran a film series, and made satirical sketches for campus newspapers. His first book, Eulalie and the Hopping Head, which he wrote and illustrated, was published in 1981.
Small earned a 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener, with Sarah Stewart, his wife. In 2001 Small won the Caldecott Medal for So You Want to Be President?, combining political cartooning with children's book illustration. He received a second Caldecott Honor in 2013 for illustrating Toni Buzzeo's One Cool Friend. Small's drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times. On July 15, 2014, he was announced as a finalist for the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.
David Small and his wife Sarah Stewart make their home in an historic manor house in Mendon, Michigan.
His current work and list of awards can be found on his website.
Found in 325 Collections and/or Records:
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 19/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Robert Fulton's steamboat going down the Hudson River while a boy watches a rocket-ship off in the distance.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 20/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Ezra Bushnell on a ship watching his brother David control a submarine.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 21/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Thomas Edison sitting on a bench watching a boy with a bird feeder contraption strapped to his head.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 22/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Elijah McCoy hanging off a train applying the lubercant he invented for locomotive gears in motion.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 23/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Joseph Guillotin standing by his invention and about to execute a French noble.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 24/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Wilhelm Roentgen experimenting with his X-ray machine on the hand of a sitting woman.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 25/27 , 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Benjamin Franklin remembering when he invented paddle boards and attachable flippers for swimming as a child.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 26/27 , 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of Igor Sikorsky next to his workbench thinking about his invention, the helicopter.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? 27/27, 2002
An ink, watercolor, and pastel piece of George Mestral in a field picking seeds off his socks leading to his invention of velcro.
So You Want to Be an Inventor? - Envelope 1/1, 2002
26 pieces of draft artwork in watercolor, pastel, pencil, and ink (need preserving), 16 ink and pencil sketches, 1 complete dummy book, 23 pages of emails/correspondence, and about 150 assorted proof/dummy pages.