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Kevin Noble Maillard is an American professor of law at Syracuse University, and the author of the award-winning children's picture book Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story.
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Kevin Noble Maillard is an American professor of law at Syracuse University, and the author of the award-winning children's picture book Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story.
Maillard has B.A. in public policy from Duke University, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. [1]
Maillard is a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. [2]
Maillard's 2019 picture book Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal) was awarded the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, and was the honor book in the 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Awards. [3] [4]
Eric Rohmann is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He is a graduate of Illinois State University and Arizona State University. He won the 2003 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing My Friend Rabbit, and he was a runner-up in 1995 for Time Flies. Rohmann also won the Sibert Medal as the illustrator, for Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera.
Meindert De Jong, sometimes spelled de Jong, DeJong or Dejong was a Dutch-born American writer of children's books. He won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1962 for his contributions as a children's writer.
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