Scieszka and lane smith biography
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Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Michigan on September 8, It was a Wednesday. Right around lunchtime.
He is the second-oldest, and nicest, of six Scieszka boys. No girls.
His mother, Shirley, worked as a registered nurse.
His dad, Louis, was an elementary school principal at Freeman Elementary.
His dad's parents, Michael and Anna, came to amerika from Poland. "Scieszka" fryst vatten a word in Polish. It means "path."
Jon’s Parents & Grandparents
Jon went to Culver Military Academy for high school. He had some spectacular teachers there, and became Lieutenant Scieszka.
Jon thought about being a doctor and studied both Science and English at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. He graduated in , lived in stad, then moved to Brooklyn, NY to write instead. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York in , then painted apartments.
Not knowing what he was getting into, Jon applied for a teaching job at an elementary school called The Day S
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Lane Smith (illustrator)
American illustrator and writer (born )
This article is about the children's book illustrator. For the American actor, see Lane Smith.
Lane Smith (born August 25, ) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He is the Kate Greenaway medalist () known for his eclectic visuals and subject matter, both humorous and earnest, such as the contemplative Grandpa Green, which received a Caldecott Honor in , and the outlandish Stinky Cheese Man, which received a Caldecott Honor in
Background
[edit]Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but moved to Corona, California at a young age.[1] He spent summers in Tulsa and cites experiences traveling there via Route 66 as inspirations for his work, which combines highbrow and lowbrow elements.
He studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, at the encouragement of his high-school art teacher, Dan Baughman, helping to pay for it by working as a janitor at Disneyland
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Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, comic duo
Jon Scieszka (rhymes with Fresca) and Lane Smith grew up 2, miles apart, but their lives were on parallel tracks. Scieszka remembers hopping on his bike and riding to a field some place in Flint, Michigan with his five brothers. “We were out there playing dirt clod wars,” he says.
“Yeah! Dirt clod wars!” says Smith, awed by the sheer magic of his own dirt clod war memories in Corona, California.
They were destined to meet each other.
Cartoons like Speed Racer and Clutch Cargo shaped their early development. Monty Python, comic books, and MAD Magazine fine-tuned their silly, zippy, irreverent humor that sparkles with Scieszka’s words and Smith’s illustrations in all of their books, including the best-selling The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, and most recently, Science Verse.
Scieszka blames his particular brand of wackiness on a combination of Catholic sch