Roger Duvoisin

Roger Antoine Duvoisin (August 28, 1900 – June 30, 1980) Duvoisin studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. His first job was designing scenery, making posters, and painting murals. Duvoisin also became a manager of an old French pottery plant before becoming involved with textile design, an occupation that eventually brought him to the United States.

Duvoisin died in June 1980. He sometimes gave 1904 as his year of birth, but Duvoisin was nearly 80 at his death, born in 1900—the US Library of Congress learned from a publisher, indirectly from his widow. Jeanne Blackmore, Duvoisin's granddaughter, is also an author with her first children's book, How Does Sleep Come? published in 2012.

Books and awards

Duvoisin wrote his first book in the United States.

Duvoisin won the Caldecott Medal for White Snow, Bright Snow, written by Alvin Tresselt (D. Lothrop Co., 1947). The annual American Library Association award recognizes the illustrator of the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".

Duvoisin both wrote and illustrated a successful series featuring Petunia the goose and Veronica the hippopotamus,