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Jon Klassen

Los Angeles, USA

Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (b. 1981) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Niagara Falls and Toronto, Ontario, he studied animation at Sheridan College, graduating in 2005. He is a Canadian writer, illustrator, and animator whose spare, atmospheric picture books are known for telling stories through implication, with the action often unfolding in the gap between what the text says and what the pictures quietly reveal. He is the first person to win both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for the same work, This Is Not My Hat (2012), which he wrote and illustrated. As author and illustrator, his "Hat" trilogy — I Want My Hat Back (2011), This Is Not My Hat (2012), and We Found a Hat (2016) — was published by Candlewick Press, alongside The Rock from the Sky (2021) and The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale (2023). His ongoing collaborations with Mac Barnett include the "Shape" trilogy — Triangle, Square, and Circle — as well as Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. As illustrator he has worked with writers including Lemony Snicket on The Dark (2013), Carolyn Stutson on Cats' Night Out, Ted Kooser on House Held Up By Trees, Maryrose Wood on the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, Sara Pennypacker on Pax and Pax, Journey Home, Kenneth Oppel on The Nest, Kelly Barnhill on The Witch's Boy, and Amy Timberlake on Skunk and Badger and Egg Marks The Spot. He is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal (2013), the Kate Greenaway Medal (2014), a Governor General's Award (2010) for Cats' Night Out, and a Caldecott Honor (2013) for Extra Yarn. Earlier in his career he worked as an animator on the feature films Kung Fu Panda (2008) and Coraline (2009), and served as art director on the 2009 animated music video for U2's "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight." He is a Member of the Order of Canada.

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