{"id":2047,"date":"2014-11-08T21:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2014-11-08T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:15:16","slug":"politi-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/politi-leo\/","title":{"rendered":"Politi, Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2048 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ph_lp_120.jpg\" alt=\"Leo Politi\" width=\"120\" height=\"151\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2049 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_sngsw.jpg\" alt=\"Song of the Swallows\" width=\"114\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2050 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_look.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for Something\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2051 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_meiko.jpg\" alt=\"Mieko\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Leo Politi was born on Nov. 21st, 1908, in Fresno, California, but moved to his mother&#8217;s native village near Milan, Italy at the age of seven. Constantly drawing, he went to art school and worked as a designer and illustrator before returning to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>He settled on Los Angeles&#8217; quaint Mexican Olvera Street, where he sketched tourists and sold drawings. Drawing Mexican children for magazines and books gave him an American career and professional identity.<\/p>\n<p>His book <i class=\"text10pt\">Song of the Swallows<\/i> was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1949. In 1980, the Fresno Public Library was named for him, and in 1991, the Leo Politi Elementary School was dedicated in Los Angeles on his 75th birthday. The City of Fresno and much of California celebrated his centennial birthday in 2008 with special events, exhibits, and recognitions.<\/p>\n<p>Politi died in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Politi was born on Nov. 21st, 1908, in Fresno, California, but moved to his mother&#8217;s native village near Milan, Italy at the age of seven. Constantly drawing, he went to art school and worked as a designer and illustrator before returning to the U.S. He settled on Los Angeles&#8217; quaint Mexican Olvera Street, where &#8230; <a title=\"Politi, Leo\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/politi-leo\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Politi, Leo\">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":[1020],"tags":[542,432,408,1310,369,1308,1309,1311],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-fresno","tag-illustrator","tag-leo-politi","tag-olvera-street","tag-song-of-the-swallows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-x1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","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=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}