Dušan Petričić
Serbian illustrator and caricaturist, Canadian 1993 to 2013
About Dušan Petričić
Born 1946. Dušan Petričić is a Yugoslav and Serbian caricaturist, writer, journalist, illustrator and picture book writer.
Dušan Petričić (; born 10 May 1946) is a Serbian illustrator and caricaturist. He has illustrated numerous children's books and his caricatures have appeared in various newspapers and magazines from Politika to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Toronto Star.
Petričić has received numerous awards for his work including an IBBY Certificate of Honour, an Alberta Book Award for his illustrations in Tim Wynne-Jones' On Tumbledown Hill and many others. In 1989 he won the Levstik Award in Slovenia for his illustrations of Guliver med pritlikavci (Gulliver in Lilliput). In 2001 the book The Longitude Prize for which he produced the illustrations won an honour at the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Awards.
From 1993 to 2013, he lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Selected works illustrated The Dance of the Violin, written by Kathy Stinson, 2017 Zoomberry, written by Dennis Lee, 2016 Snap!, written by Hazel Hutchins, 2015 The Man with the Violin, written by Kathy Stinson, 2013 In the Tree House, written by Andrew Larsen, 2013 Mr. Zinger's Hat, Cary Fagan, 2012 My Toronto, Petričić, 2011 When Apples Grew Noses And White Horses Flew, Jan Andrews, 2011 Better Together, Simon Shapiro, 2011 Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas, Cary Fagan, 2009 Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Mordecai Richler, 2009 Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case, Mordecai Richler, 2009 Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur, Mordecai Richler, 2009 Mattland, Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert, 2008 The Queen's Feet, Sarah Ellis, 2008 On Tumbledown Hill, Tim Wynne-Jones, 2008 The Longitude Prize, Joan Dash, 2008 My New Shirt, Cary Fagan, 2007 Lickety-Split, Robert Heidbreder, 2007 Alphabad: Mischievous ABCs, Shannon Stewart, 2007 Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, Margaret Atwood, 2006 Bagels from Benny, Aubrey Davis, 2005 Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Margaret Atwood, 2004 Ned Mouse breaks away, Tim Wynne-Jones, 2003 Wings and Rockets: The Story of Women in Air and Space, Jeannine Atkins, 2003 Grandmother Doll, Alice Bartels, 2001 Earthlings Inside and Out: A Space Alien Studies the Human Body, Valerie Wyatt, 1999 The Enormous Potato, Aubrey Davis, 1997 La Grosse Patate, Aubrey Davis and Michel Bourque, 1997 Bone Button Borscht, Aubrey Davis, 1996 Let's Play: Traditional Games of Childhood, Camilla Gryski, 1996 Scary Science: The Truth Behind Vampires, Witches, UFO's Ghosts and More, Sylvia Funston, 1996 The Color of Things, Vivienne Shalom, 1995 Guliver med pritlikavci (Gulliver in Lilliput), from the 1726 classic by Jonathan Swift, 1987
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Serbian illustrator and caricaturist, Canadian 1993 to 2013
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Dušan Petričić was born on 10 May 1946 in Belgrade.
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Dušan Petričić is a caricaturist, writer, journalist, illustrator and picture book writer.
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Dušan Petričić is Yugoslav and Serbian.
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