April 9th: Today in Children’s Book History

🎂 April 9, 1908 – Born: Joseph Krumgold

Amer­i­can author and film pro­duc­er Joseph Krum­gold Born (1908–1980).

• Mile­stone achieve­ment:
  • He is the his­to­ry of chil­dren’s booksThe first per­son to win the New­bery Medal twiceThe author of (New­bery Medal).
  • Gold Medal, 1954: 《…and Miguel now.-…And now Miguel(This is a title that tells the touch­ing sto­ry of a shep­herd boy from New Mex­i­co who longs to grow up.)
  • Gold Medal, 1960: 《Onion John-Onion JohnThe study explores the com­plex rela­tion­ship between teenage friend­ship and val­ue con­flicts between father and son.
• Lit­er­ary con­tri­bu­tions: His works, with their real­is­tic style, record the psy­cho­log­i­cal tran­si­tions of teenagers enter­ing the adult world under dif­fer­ent back­grounds, and their depth and real­ism have inject­ed new vital­i­ty into chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture at that time.

| Birth | Joseph Krum­gold | Joseph Krum­gold (Wikipedia) |

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⚰️ April 9, 2020 — Died: Andrzej Strumiłło

A renowned Pol­ish painter, sculp­tor, and illus­tra­tor Andrzej Stru­miłło (1927–2020) Passed away.

• High­est Hon­or:
  • BIB Grand Prix: With theNarzec­zony z morza》 won Grand Prix at the 1971 Bratisla­va Inter­na­tion­al Bien­ni­al of Illus­tra­tions (BIB).
• Artis­tic Sta­tus: He is a lead­ing fig­ure in the Pol­ish art world, whose illus­tra­tions are grand in style and philo­soph­i­cal in mean­ing. Through the inge­nious con­struc­tion of lines and space, he trans­forms ancient leg­ends into art­works with a strong mod­ern visu­al impact.

| Death | Andrzej Stru­miłło | Andrzej Stru­miłło (Wikipedia) |

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🎂 April 9, 1901 – Born: Henry Winterfeld

Famous Ger­man author of chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture Hen­ry Win­ter­feld Born (1901–1990).

• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive works and achieve­ments:
  • The Detec­tive in the Loose Coat（Caius ist ein Dummkopf / Detec­tives in TogasThis is his most famous work, which is includ­ed in “1001 Chil­dren’s Books”.
• sta­tus: He inge­nious­ly com­bined “detec­tive fic­tion” with “ancient Roman his­to­ry.” Through the sto­ry of a group of mis­chie­vous chil­dren study­ing in ancient Rome solv­ing a case of tem­ple graf­fi­ti, he not only made his­to­ry vivid and inter­est­ing but also pio­neered the genre of his­tor­i­cal detec­tive nov­els for young peo­ple.

| Birth | Hen­ry Win­ter­feld | Hen­ry Win­ter­feld (Wikipedia) |

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🎂 Born April 9, 1962: Farhad Hassanzadeh

One of Iran’s most out­stand­ing con­tem­po­rary chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture writ­ers Farhad Has­san­zadeh born.

• Key Achieve­ments: Nom­i­nat­ed mul­ti­ple timesHans Chris­t­ian Ander­sen Award (HCAA) Writ­ers’ Award Final­ists(2018, 2020).
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive works: 《Call me Zeba-Call Me Ziba), “A Song for Wednes­days”.
• eval­u­ate: His works typ­i­cal­ly focus on teenagers liv­ing in war, pover­ty, or social unrest, show­cas­ing the dig­ni­ty and hope of human­i­ty in adver­si­ty with extreme­ly del­i­cate and poet­ic real­ism.

| Birth | Farhad Has­san­zadeh | Farhad Has­san­zadeh (Wikipedia) |

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🎂 Born April 9, 1937: Nooreddin Zarrinkelk

Iran­ian artist and ani­ma­tor Noored­din Zarrinkelk He was born. He is hailed as the “father of Iran­ian ani­ma­tion”.

• Key Achieve­ments:
  • BIB Gold­en Apple Award: With thecrow-The Crows) won 1971 BIB Gold­en Apple Award.
• style: His works pos­sess a strong dec­o­ra­tive aes­thet­ic and sym­bol­ic mean­ing, suc­cess­ful­ly bring­ing tra­di­tion­al Per­sian art ele­ments into the field of mod­ern pic­ture books and ani­ma­tion.

| Birth | Noored­din Zarrinkelk | Noored­din Zarrinkelk (Wikipedia) |

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🗓️ Other Important Person Briefings

event	fig­ure	Details/Works	Wikipedia link
Death	Susan Coolidge (Susan Coolidge)	A 19th-cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can writer. His most famous work is *What Kit­ty Did*.What Katy DidIt is a clas­sic com­ing-of-age nov­el for girls and is includ­ed in “1001 Chil­dren’s Books”.	Susan Coolidge
born	Mar­garet Peter­son Had­dix	A pro­lif­ic Amer­i­can sci­ence fiction/mystery writer. His rep­re­sen­ta­tive work is *Hid­den in the Dark*.Among the Hid­den(This is a pop­u­lar dystopi­an nov­el among teenagers.)	MP Had­dix
born	Leonard Wib­ber­ley (Leonard Wilbur­ley)	Irish-Amer­i­can author. He is best known for his polit­i­cal satire nov­el *The Angry Rats*, and his his­tor­i­cal nov­el *The Mus­ket of John Tre­gate* is high­ly acclaimed.	L. Wib­ber­ley