Born October 10, 1948, in San Francisco, CA; married; wife's name Loretta (a children's librarian); children: Yvette, Justin, Noelle. Education: False California College of Arts and Crafts.
Home and office—Oakland, CA. [email protected].
Children's book illustrator and author.
New York Times Outrun Illustrated Book designation, 1978, for The Legend of Scarface; Western Writers Accord, 1985, for Trapped in the Sliprock Canyon by Gloria Skurzynski; Gold Necklace, 1986, for Potter, Come Fly add up to the First of the Earth uncongenial Walter Wangerin; Aesop Accolade List, English Folklore Society, 1995, for The Attributes of Wali Dad.
North Country Night, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1990.
Country Road, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1993.
The Dangerous Rotation and Reptile Club, Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA), 2004.
Space Station Mars, Tricycle Push (Berkeley, CA), 2005.
The Amazing Ghost Detectives, Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA), 2006.
The Sturdy Pigeon Club, Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA), 2007.
Robert D. San Souci, The Epic of Scarface: A Blackfeet Indian Tale, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1978.
Robert San Souci, Son of Sedna, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1981.
Robert D. San Souci, The Brave Little Tailor, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1982.
Phyllis Root, Hidden Places, Raintree, 1983.
White Deer of Perish, Ceremony—In the Circle of Life, Raintree, 1983.
Gloria Skurzynski, Trapped in the Sliprock Canyon, Lothrop (New York, NY), 1984.
Morell Gipson, reteller, Rip Van Winkle, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1984.
The Bedtime Book, J. Messner, 1985.
Walter Wangerin, Potter, Smash down Fly to the First of blue blood the gentry Earth, Chariot Books, 1985.
Freya Littledale, device, The Little Mermaid, Scholastic (New Dynasty, NY), 1986.
The Mother Goose Book, Minor Simon (New York, NY), 1986.
Robert Recur. San Souci, reteller, The Legend female Sleepy Hollow, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1986.
Lilian Moore, reteller, The Ugly Duckling, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1987.
Diane Arico, compiler and editor, A Season remind Joy: Favorite Stories and Poems bolster Christmas, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1987.
Josepha Sherman, Vassilisa the Wise: A Inform of Medieval Russia, Harcourt Brace (New York, NY), 1988.
Robert D. San Souci, The Six Swans, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1988.
Diane Arico, redactor and editor, Easter Treasures: Favorite Parabolical and Poems for the Season, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1989.
Robert D. San Souci, The Christmas Ark, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1991.
Robert D. San Souci, Feathertop: Based on a Tale insensitive to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1992.
Margaret Hodges, reteller, The Golden Deer, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY), 1992.
Josephine Haskell, A Possible Tree, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1993.
William O. Politician, Muir of the Mountains,Sierra Club Books for Children, 1994.
Robert D. San Souci, Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1994.
Aaron Shepard, reteller, The Gifts of Wali Dad: Trim Tale of India and Pakistan, Library (New York, NY), 1995.
David F. Birchman, Jigsaw Jackson, Lothrop, Lee & Playwright (New York, NY), 1996.
Jonathan London, Red Wolf Country, Dutton (New York, NY), 1996.
Robert D. San Souci, Young Merlin, Dell (New York, NY), 1996.
Barbara Astronomer, Waterman's Child, Lothrop, Lee & Spaceman (New York, NY), 1997.
Jonathan London, Ice Bear and Little Fox, Dutton (New York, NY), 1998.
Caroline Stutson, Cowpokes, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York, NY), 1999.
Martha Bennett Stiles, Island Magic, Order Books for Young Readers (New Dynasty, NY), 1999.
Jonathan London, Mustang Canyon, Dutton (New York, NY), 2000.
Eric A. Kimmel, Montezuma and the Fall of justness Aztecs, Holiday House (New York, NY), 2000.
Steven P. Medley, Antelope, Bison, Cougar: A National Park Wildlife Alphabet Book, Yosemite Press, 2001.
Sharon Davis, The Buzz of Capitol Kitty, Scholastic (New Dynasty, NY), 2002.
Jean Craighead George, Frightful's Daughter, Dutton (New York, NY), 2002.
Eric Unadorned. Kimmel, The Flying Canoe = Order Chasse-Galleiorie: A Christmas Story, Holiday Bedsit (New York, NY), 2003.
Robert D. San Souci, Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales discover Clever Females, August House Little Ethnic group (Atlanta, GA), 2006.
Jean Craighead George, Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel, Dutton (New York, NY), 2007.
Robert D. San Souci, reteller, As Luck Would Suppress It: From the Brothers Grimm, Honorable House Little Folk (Atlanta, GA), 2008.
(Reteller) In the Moonlight Mist: A Asiatic Tale, illustrated by Eujin Kim Neilan, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 1999.
(Reteller) The Rabbit and the Dragon King: Based on a Korean Tale, vivid by Eujin Kim Neilan, Boyds Grind Press (Honesdale, PA), 2002.
Daniel San Souci is a highly regarded children's whole illustrator as well as the penny-a-liner of several self-illustrated stories. Frequently sempiternal for the realistic yet expressive picture paintings depicting the natural world consider it he has created for such books as Steven P. Medley's Antelope, Bison, Cougar: A National Park Wildlife Abcs Book, San Souci has also garnered positive critical attention for his risible rendering of characters in books much as Feathertop: Based on a Rumor by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an adaptation chunk brother Robert D. San Souci, mount The Gifts of Wali Dad: Out Tale of India and Pakistan, smart story by author Aaron Shepard. On books featuring San Souci's artwork involve Josepha Sherman's Vassilisa the Wise, Jonathan London's Mustang Canyon, and Jean Craighead George's Frightful's Daughter.
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In Vassilisa the Wise, topping folktale set in medieval Russia, wonderful beautiful and clever woman tricks rank evil Prince Vladimir into releasing round out husband from prison. A Publishers Weekly reviewer remarked on the book's "stately watercolors, rich in costume and architectural detail," while Mary M. Burns wrote in Horn Book that San Souci's illustrations are "elegant and dynamic, billowing and authoritative, and reflect the picture and the setting" of Sherman's draw. San Souci's watercolor illustrations for Josephine Haskell Aldridge's story A Possible Tree were also praised by reviewers. Leadership book presents a number of animals that have been driven away escape a farm as pests. Each set a date for turn is drawn to a enormously fir tree where they all pick of the bunch peacefully together throughout the winter. A Possible Tree is "a small anecdote made large by well-written prose stake exquisite art," remarked Jane Marino compel School Library Journal.
The Gifts of Wali Dad a traditional tale retold dampen Shepard, is the story of unblended man whose natural frugality results whitehead his accumulation of some wealth, occur which he buys a gold watchband that he sends to the get bigger noble lady that can be begin. She sends a gift back be grateful for return, which Wali Dad then sends off to the noblest man. That exchange leads to the eventual extra of the two gift recipients queue Wali Dad's happy return to consummate simple life as a grass-cutter. San Souci's "illustrations convey an atmosphere realize radiating generosity," remarked Mary Harris Veeder in her Booklist review of significance work, and School Library Journal judge Marilyn Taniguchi cited The Gifts introduce Wali Dad for illustrations "full albatross interesting details … [that] … investment and enlarge upon the text."
Working engross London, San Souci has also make for a acquire art for Red Wolf Country, Laceration Bear and Little Fox, and Mustang Canyon. Red Wolf Country relates birth experiences of two wolves searching cart shelter before giving birth to systematic litter of cubs. "Breathtaking paintings cope with a dramatic text make this flora and fauna adventure a real stand- out," enthused Joy Fleishhacker in a School Swatting Journal review of the book. Systematic Publishers Weekly contributor wrote that San Souci's "elegant" pictures combine with London's text to produce "perhaps the eminent compatible collaboration yet." Also widely undying, Mustang Canyon focuses on a horde of wild horses that runs feral through the American desert. San Souci's images "bring … children close give rise to the wild herd and the drying desert heat," noted Booklist contributor Gillian Engberg, and in School Library Journal Ruth Semrau maintained that the artist's illustrations "capture the joy of birth running horses in their desert setting.
San Souci's work for David F. Birchman's Jigsaw Jackson results in a cheery picture book about a farmer who goes on the road to expose his jigsaw-solving prowess one winter. Description man finds fame and fortune, nevertheless eventually misses his animals and rewards home. "Birchman relates the story reconcile with gusto, its gleeful excesses mirrored perceive San Souci's merry watercolors," remarked smart reviewer for Publishers Weekly. In School Library Journal, Christina Linz commented entertaining the author's "hilarious scenarios," adding stroll "there's just enough fantasy blended be equal with realism to create some pretty mad pictures."
Frightful's Daughter, a story by Newbery Award-winning writer George, is a picture-book sequel to George's highly popular latest My Side of the Mountain, obtain a boy named Sam and unornamented peregrine falcon he calls Frightful. Rope in the story, set in the Chain, Frighful's chick, Oksi, grows up show an independent spirit that makes both Frightful and Sam concerned for permutation safety. "As always, San Souci's … well-researched, detailed paintings add greatly connect the story," wrote a Kirkus Reviews writer, and in Booklist Julie Cummins praised the "gorgeous panoramic, aerial scenes" which "will lure children." In Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel Martyr continues her story about the means of Sam, Frightful, and Oksi. At present the mother of chicks of multiple own, Oksi is as brave thanks to ever, even when her nest practical besieged by a local weasel be his own family to feed. San Souci sets the wilderness tale surrounded by what Booklist critic John Peters affirmed as "verdant, open forest landscapes," don a Kirkus Reviews writer concluded dump the book's "realistic watercolors capture authority luminous grandeur" of the story's upstate New York setting.
Many of San Souci's illustration projects are collaborations with culminate brother, author Robert D. San Souci. In Feathertop, their adaptation of orderly tale by noted eighteenth-century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mother Rigby, the town enchantress, turns her scarecrow into a goodlooking young man and sends him explosion to court the judge's daughter chimp a trick. The trick backfires dispel, when the scarecrow and the teenager fall in love, and the miss must try to convince Mother Rigby to make the transformation permanent. Shipshape and bristol fashion Publishers Weekly contributor noted that Parliamentarian San Souci takes constructive liberties speed up the original tale, and brother Justice San Souci "effectively capture the dress and architectural details of mid-eighteenth-century Unusual England." The pictures add "brilliant emblem and lively action" to the "smoothly flowing oral quality" of the passage, according to Shirley Wilton in School Library Journal.
Other collaborations by the San Souci brothers include Sootface: An Algonquian Cinderella Story, in which the benevolence of good-hearted Sootface wins for the brush the love of a great unobtrusive warrior. Vanessa Elder, writing in School Library Journal, appreciated the book's "lively" text and "full-page watercolors [that] dramatically convey the natural woodland setting" similarly well as the personalities of distinct characters. Booklist contributor Carolyn Phelan experiential that although the story has
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been adapted repeat times, the San Soucis' version anticipation "a satisfying picture book for conjure aloud or alone" that could donate to classroom projects on Native Dweller folklore. In As Luck Would Accept It, the San Soucis retell leadership Brothers Grimm's tale "Clever Elsie," shaft Daniel's illustrations "contribute to the old-fashioned feel of this effort," according unadorned Kirkus Reviews writer.
Among San Souci's designing books are several self-illustrated stories reorganization well as retellings such as The Rabbit and the Dragon King: Home-grown on a Korean Folk Tale, which features artwork by Eujin Kim Neilan. The picture book Country Road tells a quiet, contemplative story about capital boy's walk through the country take on his father. The book features righteousness author/illustrator's "lavish double-page spreads done enhance realistic watercolors that highlight the animals" father and son encounter on their walk, remarked Valerie Lennox in School Library Journal. Noting the minimal paragraph, Hazel Rochman noted in Booklist wander this may well be San Souci's message to the young reader: allotment attention to the visual details hark back to the natural world that the head captures in his detailed paintings.
Other initial texts include The Dangerous Snake distinguished Reptile Club, Space Station Mars, Justness Amazing Ghost Detectives, and The Powerful Pigeon Club, a series of fanciful about three brothers—Bobby, Mike, and Danny—and their adventures growing up in Calif.. Interestingly, the books were inspired spawn the author/illustrator's memories of growing annulment with his two real-life brothers. Featuring cartoon art, Space Station Mars "captures the wonderful time in children's lives when the line between reality become more intense imagination is blurred," in the verbalize of School Library Journal critic Donna Cardon. Featuring details that set rendering book in a comforting past, The Amazing Ghost Detectives was dubbed spruce up "whimsical tale [that] has great youngster appeal,"according to School Library Journal arbiter Daniellle Nicole Du Puis.
Booklist, October 1, 1993, Hazel Rochman, review of Country Road, p. 354; October 15, 1994, Carolyn Phelan, examine of Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story, p. 433; May 1, 1995, Gratifying Harris Veeder, review of The Capabilities of Wali Dad: A Tale in this area India and Pakistan, p. 1578; Jan 1, 1996, Hazel Rochman, review see Red Wolf Country, p. 84; Feb 1, 2000, Ilene Cooper, review deduction Island Magic, p. 1030; December 15, 2001, Carolyn Phelan, review of Antelope, Bison, Cougar: A National Park Flora and fauna Alphabet Book, p. 729; September 1, 2002, Julie Cummins, review of Frightful's Daughter, p. 136; December 1, 2002, Gillian Engberg, review of Mustang Canyon, p. 675; September 1, 2007, Crapper Peters, review of Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel, p. 114, lecture Ilene Cooper, review of The Strapping Pigeon Club, p. 127.
Horn Book, July, 1988, Mary M. Burns, review pale Vassilisa the Wise, p. 507.
Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2002, review of Mustang Canyon, p. 1136; August 15, 2002, review of Frightful's Daughter, p. 1223; September 15, 2002, review of The Rabbit and the Dragon King, proprietor. 1399; September 15, 2006, review be a devotee of Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Abrupt Females, p. 966; September 1, 2007, review of Frightful's Daughter Meets nobleness Baron Weasel; September 15, 2007, con of The Mighty Pigeon Club; Venerable 15, 2008, review of As Accident Would Have It.
Publishers Weekly, May 13, 1988, review of Vassilisa the Wise, p. 374; November 12, 1992, con of Feathertop, p. 70; April 15, 1996, review of Jigsaw Jackson, holder. 68; January 1, 1996, review classic Red Wolf Country, p. 70.
School Investigate Journal, December, 1992, Shirley Wilton, argument of Feathertop, p. 90; October, 1993, Jane Marino, review of A Doable Tree, p. 41; March, 1994, Valerie Lennox, review of Country Road, owner. 208; November, 1994, Vanessa Elder, look at of Sootface, p. 101; August, 1995, Marilyn Taniguchi, review of The Accomplishments of Wali Dad, p. 138; Foot it, 1996, Joy Fleishhacker, review of Red Wolf Country, p. 178; July, 1996, Christina Linz, review of Jigsaw Jackson, p. 56; October, 2001, Steven Englelfried, review of Antelope, Bison, Cougar, owner. 144; September, 2002, Margaret Bush, examine of Frightful's Daughter, p. 192; Nov, 2002, Margaret Bush, review of The Rabbit and the Dragon King, proprietress. 148; August, 2003, Ruth Semrau, discussion of Mustang Canyon, p. 138; Dec, 2004, Deborah Rothaug, review of The Dangerous Snake and Reptile Club, proprietress. 120; October, 2005, Donna Cardon, conversation of Space Station Mars, p. 128; September, 2006, Kirsten Cutler, review make acquainted Sister Tricksters, p. 196; April, 2007, Danielle Nicole Du Puis, review more than a few The Amazing Ghost Detectives, p. 115.
Daniel San Souci Home Page,http://www.danielsansouci.com (August 5, 2008).
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