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Margot Zemach (1931-1989)
Zemach was born in Los Angeles, studied at the Los Angeles County Art Institute, and won a Fulbright Scholarship to study drawing in Vienna in 1955. Zemach was the illustrator or author of more than 40 children’s books. She won a Caldecott Medal and was twice selected as the American nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, the most prestigious international children’s book award. Zemach illustrated four of the most charming of Singer’s children’s stories, including Mazel and Shlimazel or the Milk of a Lioness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1967), When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968), Alone in the Wild Forest (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971), Naftali the Storyteller and his Horse, Sus (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976).
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