E. B. WHITE was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from Cornell University. He was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for both Charlotte’s Web, a Newbery Honor Book, and Stuart Little. The Trumpet of the Swan was named an ALA Notable Children’s Book. Mr. White, who wrote seventeen books of prose and poetry, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.
FRED MARCELLINO’s picture books include Puss in Boots, a Caldecott Honor Book; The Steadfast Tin Soldier, an ALA Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice; and The Pelican Chorus, one of School Library Journal’s Best Books of the Year. His most recent books, The Story of Little Babaji and Ouch!, are both ALA Notable Children’s Books, and I, Crocodile was named as one of The New York Times’ Best Illustrated Books of 1999.
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