Peter Sís

Peter Sís (born Petr Sís; May 11, 1949) is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books.

Sís travelled to the United States in 1982 "to create an animated film based on Czechoslovakia's participation in the Olympics" that were upcoming in Los Angeles. The Soviet Union initiated a boycott that included Czechoslovakia but Sís did not return home.

He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Tibet Through the Red Box. He also won the MacArthur Fellowship Award in 2003.

Sís has won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 Berlin International Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award.

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Sís received the illustration award in 2012. George Shannon, Bean Boy (1984) George Shannon, Stories to Solve: folktales from around the world (1985) Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy (1986) Sid Fleischman, The Scarebird (1987) Sid Fleischman, The Midnight Horse (1990) George Shannon, More Stories to Solve: fifteen folktales from around the world (1990) Jack Prelutsky, The Dragons Are Singing Tonight (1993) George Shannon, Still More Stories to Solve: fourteen folktales from around the world (1994) Sid Fleischman, The 13th Floor: a ghost story (1995) Jack Prelutsky, Monday's Troll (1996) Jacques Taravant, Le marchand d'ailes (1997) Jack Prelutsky, The Gargoyle on the Roof (1999) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Part I (2000) Jack Prelutsky, Scranimals (2002) Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings (2006) Sid Fleischman, The Dream Stealer (2009) Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Dreamer (2010) Ada Limón, In Praise of Mystery (2024)