Life
David Small attended Cass Technical High School and began studying writing in college, but at age 21 switched to art. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Wayne State University and a master of fine arts degree at Yale University. Small taught art for many years on the college level, ran and film series, and made satirical sketches for campus newspapers. His first book, which he wrote and illustrated, Eulalie and the Hopping Head, was published in 1981.
Small earned the 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener, with Sarah Stewart, his wife, recipient of the 2007 Michigan Author Award. In 2001 he won the Caldecott Medal for So You Want to Be President?, combining political cartooning with children's book illustration. Small's drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times. In 1990, he was commissioned to paint one of the pillars in the children's room with nursery rhyme character of the Kalamazoo Public Library, in Kalamazoo Michigan.
David Small and Sarah Stewart make their home in an historic manor house in Mendon, Michigan.
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