Dušan Petričić

Serbian illustrator and caricaturist

Dušan Petričić
Petričić in 2010
Born	(1946-05-10) 10 May 1946 (age 77) Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Education	Academy of Applied Arts, Belgrade
Known for	Illustration, cartoons, animation
Notable work	Children's books illustrations
Awards	Levstik Award 1987 for Guliver med pritlikavci Silbert Honour 2001 for The Longitude Prize

Dušan Petričić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Петричић; 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.^[1]^[2]

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).^[3] 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

References

^ "Dušan Petričić", Macmillan Publishers
^ "Dušan Petricic", Politika
^ "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-04-12.