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Happy 80th, Etienne Delessert! (Swiss-born artist & 6-time HCAA nominee

From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 4 12:55:15 2021

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, he now lives in Lakeville, Connecticut. He was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1980, 1982, 1986, 2006, 2010, and 2016. He is also well known for his work with child psychologist Jean Piaget.

https://etiennedelessert.com

https://www.etiennedelessert.com/bio.php
(biography)

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/etienne-delessert.html
(13 PW reviews and book covers)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne_Delessert_(illustrator)
(this talks about his work for Sesame Street)

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From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 4 13:30:39 2021

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVU_l1x9iw
(read-aloud of "Pony Man" by Gordon Lightfoot)

https://m.facebook.com/laruelibrary/videos/ryann-reads-it-by-etienne-delessert/545634429449035/
(read-aloud of "It?")

https://m.facebook.com/muppetwiki/videos/3046627128732929/?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&_rdr
(rare read-aloud of "Being Green"!)

https://vimeo.com/132196352
(long interview from 2015, in French)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6R01HXr7B8
(read-aloud)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZ9MbSGXZI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqUIBCI4gQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZHFTxxRRM
(animation for Sesame Street)

Lenona.

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From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 4 13:56:47 2021

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/etienne-delessert/
(11 Kirkus reviews)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/198493.Etienne_Delessert
(reader reviews)

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2092
(2011 profile - with a LOT of pictures)

https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A10157782550382944%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2F%7Bnote_id%7D&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&_rdr
(about the 2011 exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum)

http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2012/03/interview-etienne-delessert.html
(2012 Q&A interview about the publisher Harlan Quist - this was how I found out a bit more about the sad fate of the wonderful illustrator Rick Schreiter, who would now be in his 80s, had he lived - he died in his 50s)

https://www.mackincommunity.com/2014/02/16/rita-marshall-etienne-delessert/
(from 2014 - about the "I Hate to Read" series)

https://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2019/09/26/breaking-the-wall-of-narrow-nationalism-a-talk-with-etienne-delessert/
(2019 Q&A interview)

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From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 4 14:11:21 2021

https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/delessert-etienne-1941
(resume, awards and partial(?) booklist)

http://50watts.com/filter/children's/The-Children-s-Theater-of-the-Absurd
(Q&A with a lot of pictures)

https://www.etiennedelessert.com/documents/whygrowup.pdf
(2009 article by Delessert: "Why Grow Up?")

Lenona.

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