biography
| name: |
Caldecott, Randolph
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pronunciation:
[kawldikot]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1846–86)
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| biography:
| Artist and illustrator, born in Chester, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He worked as a bank-clerk in Whitchurch, Shropshire and then Manchester where he attended the Manchester School of Art as an evening student, later moving to London to follow an artistic career. He illustrated Washington Irving's Old Christmas (1876) and numerous children's books, such as The House that Jack Built (1878) and Aesop's Fables (1883). The Caldecott Medal has been awarded annually since 1938 to the best US artist-illustrator of children's books. |
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