{"id":1605,"date":"2014-10-22T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:25:23","slug":"du-bois-william-pene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/du-bois-william-pene\/","title":{"rendered":"du Bois, William P\u00e8ne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Born on May 9 in Nutley, New Jersey, William P\u00e8ne Sherman du Bois<\/span>, would become one of America\u2019s most beloved children\u2019s book illustrators and authors. His family had been involved in the arts for generations. When P\u00e8ne du Bois was eight, his family moved to Paris, where they lived for the next six years. Here, he said, he acquired a sense of order and meticulousness, which is evident throughout his books. He served as a correspondent during World War II for Yank<\/i> magazine and became the first art director for The Paris Review<\/i> in 1953.<\/p>\n

His illustrations were created in pencil and then traced in ink. In a wonderful book of mystery, invention, and fun, the author writes about an inventor who crash lands his balloon in the Pacific and then sojourns on the island of Krakatoa just before it blows up. This book is the 1948 Newbery Medal winner, The 21 Balloons<\/i>. As this book\u2019s blurb says, \u201cHalf this book is based on scientific truths. The rest is absolute nonsense.\u201d He also illustrated books for Charlotte Zolotow, among them William\u2019s Doll<\/i>, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Roald Dahl. His book, Lion<\/i>, received a Caldecott Honor in 1957.<\/p>\n

Mr. P\u00e8ne du Bois died in 1993 in Nice, France.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born on May 9 in Nutley, New Jersey, William P\u00e8ne Sherman du Bois, would become one of America\u2019s most beloved children\u2019s book illustrators and authors. His family had been involved in the arts for generations. When P\u00e8ne du Bois was eight, his family moved to Paris, where they lived for the next six years. Here, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392],"tags":[578,542,461,723,432,408,727,369,725,722,327,460,726,717,469,395,721,719,718,724,720],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d","tag-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-author","tag-caldecott-honor","tag-charlotte-zolotow","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-france","tag-illustrator","tag-jules-verne","tag-lion","tag-new-jersey","tag-newbery-medal","tag-nice","tag-nutley","tag-picture-books","tag-roald-dahl","tag-the-21-balloons","tag-the-paris-review","tag-william-pene-du-bois","tag-williams-doll","tag-yank"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-pT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}