The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

written and illustrated by Peter Sís, and published by Farrar/Frances Foster

The book cover of "The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain" written and illustrated by Peter Sís features a background of cardboard, as if for a homemade book, with a star made of red bricks. Inside the star, a drawing of a small boy beating on a drum. The Randolph Caldecott Medal Honor Book Award Seal has been affixed at the upper right corner.

About

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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, a graphic memoir of Sís's youth in Prague, brilliantly weds artistic and design choices to content: tight little panels with officious lines and red punctuation; full-bleed line-and-watercolor spreads of nightmares and dreams; color and absence of color.

Awards Won

Title Year
Caldecott Medal Image Randolph Caldecott Medal

91´«Ã½

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the 91´«Ã½, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
 2008 - Honor(s)

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