About the Director

John Warren Stewig is a highly respected children's book author and magazine writer. He has written 10 picture books for children, is the author or co-author of 12 scholarly books, and has published more than 100 articles in 47 periodicals. He was elected chairman of the 1998 Caldecott Award Committee of the American Library Association, which awards the coveted Caldecott Medal, the highest award for children's book illustration in the United States. Recently, he served on the Sibert Committee of the American Library Association, which gives an annual award for the most distinguished information book of the year, as well as on the Medallion Committee, given to an author by the University of Southern Mississippi for a body of work.

Dr. Stewig's areas of research and teaching are visual literacy and children's picture books, issues in children's literature, language arts curriculum, and drama in the curriculum. For several years he has taught methods classes in public schools so that he could demonstrate working directly with children. Dr. Stewig has led writers' workshops and Authors-in-the-Schools programs for various school districts in 26 different states.

Dr. Stewig has a bachelor of science degree, master of science degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Stewig's picture books are:

• "Sending Messages" (Houghton, 1978), nonfiction
• "The Fisherman and His Wife" (Holiday House, 1988), retelling
• "Stone Soup" (Holiday House, 1991), retelling
• "The Moon's Choice" (Simon and Schuster, 1993), retelling
• "Princess Florecita and the Iron Shoes" (Knopf, 1995), retelling
• "King Midas" (Holiday House, 1999), retelling
• "Clever Gretchen" (Marshall Cavendish, 2000), retelling
• "Mother Holly" (North-South, 2001), retelling
• "Making Plum Jam" (Hyperion, 2002), fiction
• "Whuppitie Stourie" (Holiday House, 2004), retelling
• "The Animals Watched" (Holiday House, 2007)
• “Nobody Asked the Pea” (Holiday House, forthcoming)

Dr. Stewig has also authored a book to help teachers and librarians encourage children to develop their observation skills and increase their ability to process visual information looking at picture books.

Dr. Stewig can be contacted at (262) 552-5480, or jstewig@carthage.edu. He is assisted by Marilyn J. Ward, Carthage professor of education.

Drafts on Display

Exhibit featured original work by children's book authors and illustrators.

Tea & Conversation

The center hosted Laura Numeroff, best-selling author of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" series, in September.

Seuss-a-thon

Annual Seuss-a-thon event draws book-lovers of all ages to the Center for Children's Literature.