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eceived two Caldecott Medals and one Honor<br />
forThe Hello, Goodbye Window, by Norton<br />
Juster; and for his own A Ball for Daisy; and his<br />
Yo! Yes? Five of his titles have been named<br />
New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s<br />
Books, including Mysterious Thelonious and A<br />
Poke in the I.<br />
Chris Raschka<br />
Chris Raschka never meant to be an illustrator.<br />
Certainly he had no thought of becoming a<br />
picture book artist. Though in his school days<br />
he always drew and painted, he studied<br />
science and was ready to enter a career in<br />
medicine. But on the eve of that next step, he<br />
understood that taking it would finally mean<br />
the end of his painting life, which was after all<br />
what he wanted most. So he just didn’t go.<br />
Instead he opened the newspaper to find a<br />
part-time job, one which happened to find him<br />
his first steady employment as an illustrator:<br />
illustrating all of the articles each month in a<br />
law journal (his job had been factotum to a<br />
private attorney). For the next three years he<br />
created illustrations for magazines and<br />
newspapers in Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan,<br />
before moving to New York City.<br />
This city would be the place he required to<br />
complete his education. Chris Raschka has<br />
created over sixty books for children. He has<br />
He was the US nominee for the Hans Christian<br />
Andersen Award in 2012 and 2016. Chris<br />
Raschka was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania,<br />
in the USA, in 1959. He studied biology, music,<br />
and art, in Minnesota, and since 1989, has<br />
lived with his family in New York City.<br />
Chris Raschka’s illustrations have been exhibited<br />
throughout the United States, including a<br />
solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago<br />
in 2007 through 2008. In Europe his work has<br />
appeared at Bad Berleburg, Germany, and in<br />
Italy at Bologna, Padua, and Rome.<br />
"We are as close as sienna is to umber and<br />
umber is to ochre, which is to say, very close<br />
indeed. We are made with the same strokes,<br />
of the same materials. Peace is not that<br />
hard.”<br />
Chris Raschka | April 2018<br />
It’s Not That Hard<br />
Watercolor on colored paper<br />
48 x 48 cm | 2017<br />
www.nccil.org/artists/chris-raschka