Gabi Swiatkowska

Gabi Swiatkowska (born 1970) is a Polish-born American artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator. She has shown up twice on the ALA Notable Book Award list. One of the books that she illustrated, My Name Is Yoon, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award

Life and career Swiatkowska was born in Tychy, Poland. At fourteen she entered the Lyceum of Art in Bielsko-Biała, and at sixteen she immigrated to New York City, where she attended Cooper Union School of Art. She is the illustrator of fifteen children's books, including A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things by the poet C. K. Williams, and the author and illustrator of one, Queen on Wednesday. The book she illustrated Infinity and Me was a 2013 ALA Notable Children's Book, and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2012.

Swiatkowska lives in the south of France. She frequently exhibits her paintings and sculptures throughout France, and she was also singer, songwriter and upright bass player in the acoustic string band quartet Tildon Krautz.

Awards

Awards for Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Swiatkowska 2013 American Library Association Notable Children's Books 2012 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2012 2012 Caldecott Medal Nominee 2012 Junior Library Guild Selection

Awards for My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvitz, illustrated by Swiatkowska 2008 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year 2004 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award 2004 IRA Notable Books for a Global Society 2004 American Library Association Notable Children's Books 2003 Child Magazine Best Books of the Year 2003 Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year 2003 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Other awards 2008 The Book Award for Best Children's Literature on Aging for Elementary Readers 2007 Booklist Editors' Choice 2007 Young Hoosier Book Award winner in the Picture Book category 2007 Nevada Young Reader Award for the Picture Book Category

Books Illustrated Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter (Henry Holt & Co., 2015) Yoon and the Jade Bracelet by Helen Recorvitz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) Waiting for Gregory by Kimberly Willis Holt (Henry Holt & Co., 2006) Arrowhawk by Lola M. Schaefer (Henry Holt & Co., 2004) My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvitz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas by Sally Derby (Henry Holt & Co., 2001)