{"id":2911,"date":"2015-04-17T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2015-04-17T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:56:12","slug":"wisniewski-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wisniewski-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisniewski, David"},"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-2912 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_wisn.jpg\" alt=\"David Wisniewski\" width=\"140\" height=\"157\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2913 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_golem.jpg\" alt=\"Golem\" width=\"140\" height=\"167\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2914 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_rain1.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Player\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2915 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_wave.jpg\" alt=\"Sea-Wolf\" width=\"120\" height=\"147\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Born March 21, 1953, Caldecott winner (<i>Golem<\/i>, 1997) David Wisniewski&#8217;s family moved frequently when he was a child as a result of his father&#8217;s career in the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Later he traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus and Vargas Circus where he worked as a puppeteer. It was during this time he met his wife and formed Clarion Shadow Theater, a touring puppet company. The shadow puppetry he used influenced his illustration in subsequent books <i>The Warrior and the Wise Man<\/i> (1989);<i> Rain Player<\/i> (1991); and <i>Sundiata: Lion King of Mali<\/i> (1992).<\/p>\n<p>Wisniewski&#8217;s humorous side came to the fore in <i>The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups <\/i>(1998), a spoof showing kids what&#8217;s really going on behind the rules, and <i>Tough Cookie<\/i> (1999), a tongue-in-cheek take-off of detective stories with sophisticated dialogue and homage to movie detectives of the 30s and 40s. Mr. Wisniewski died on September 11, 2002, at the age of 49.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Leslie Greaves Radloff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born March 21, 1953, Caldecott winner (Golem, 1997) David Wisniewski&#8217;s family moved frequently when he was a child as a result of his father&#8217;s career in the Air Force. Later he traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus and Vargas Circus where he worked as a puppeteer. It was during this time he met his wife &#8230; <a title=\"Wisniewski, David\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wisniewski-david\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wisniewski, David\">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":[1051],"tags":[542,443,432,408,2064,2062,2063,369,2065],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-w","tag-author","tag-caldecott-medal","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-circus","tag-david-wisniewski","tag-golem","tag-illustrator","tag-puppet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-KX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","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=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}