At fifteen, he was the youngest to exhibit in a group drawing show at the Tel Aviv Museum.Īt 24 he moved to New York City, where he studied painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and drew illustrations for a publisher of Hebrew books. He studied at the Teachers' Institute in Tel Aviv, where he took courses in literature, anatomy, and biology, and also studied at the Art Institute of Tel Aviv. In 1949, the family moved to Israel, where Shulevitz worked a variety of jobs: an apprentice at a rubber-stamp shop, a carpenter, and a dog-license clerk at Tel Aviv City Hall. At thirteen, Shulevitz won first prize in an all-elementary-school drawing competition in Paris's 20th district.
There Shulevitz developed an enthusiasm for French comic books, and soon he and a friend started making their own. For eight years they were wanderers, arriving, eventually, in Paris in 1947. The Warsaw blitz occurred when he was four years old, and the Shulevitz family fled. He began drawing at the age of three and, unlike many children, never stopped. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, on February 27, 1935. Uri Shulevitz is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author.
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