Award-winning author/illustrator,

Peter Sis brings us Madlenka Soccer Star!

October 21 ~ 3:00 
(presentation at 3:30)

Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London.

Peter Sís quickly became one of the leading artists in the field with the publication of the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner, The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman. With more than twenty books to his credit and almost as many honors, Peter is a six-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

Peter Sís lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.