Chris Raschka

Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka
	Raschka in 2013
Born	Christopher Raschka; Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Author, artist and illustrator

Chris Raschka is an American illustrator, writer, and violist. He contributed to children's literature as a children's illustrator.

Early life and education edit

Raschka was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Though he grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois,^[1] he spent part of his childhood in Austria, his mother's homeland.^{[citation needed]}

He is a graduate of St. Olaf College.^{[citation needed]}

Career and awards edit

Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1994, but Raschka may be most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal, and his book A Ball for Daisy, which won the 2012 Caldecott Medal.^[2]^[3]

He was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.^[4]

Raschka is the author and illustrator of Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, an introduction to the saxophone player and composer Charlie Parker (Scholastic, 1997).^{[citation needed]}

Selected works edit

Another Important Book (illustrator)
Arlene Sardine^[5]
A Ball for Daisy
The Blushful Hippopotamus
Can't Sleep
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Circle Time (shorts for Playhouse Disney)
Daisy Gets Lost
Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg
Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
Farmy Farm
Fishing in the Air (illustrator)
Five for a Little One
A Foot in the Mouth (illustrator)
The Genie in the Jar (illustrator)
Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More (illustrator)
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (illustrator)
Grump Groan Growl (illustrator)
Happy to Be Nappy (illustrator)
Home at Last (children's book)|Home at Last (illustrator)
The Hello, Goodbye Window (illustrator)
Hip Hop Dog (author)
John Coltrane's Giant Steps
A Kick in the Head (illustrator)
Little Black Crow
Little Tree (illustrator)
Moosey Moose
Mysterious Thelonious
Peter and the Wolf (adaptor, illustrator)
A Poke in the I (illustrator)
The Purple Balloon
Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See, by Megan Dowd Lambert, Charlesbridge, 2015.
Ring! Yo?
Seriously, Norman
Side by Side : A Celebration of Dads^[6]
Simple Gifts: A Shaker Hymn
Talk To Me About the Alphabet
Whaley Whale
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?( illustrator)
Wormy Worm
Yo! Yes?
If You Were a Dog