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Maira Kalman

Biography

Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman is the author/illustrator of over 30 books for adults and children and a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.

Maira Kalman

Books by Maira Kalman

by Michael Frank, with artwork by Maira Kalman - Biography, History, Nonfiction

With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Neither of them could know this was the first of 100 Saturdays that they would spend in each other’s company as Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come of age on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which the Italians began governing as an official possession in 1923 and transformed over the next two decades until the Germans seized control and deported the entire Juderia to Auschwitz.

written by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Maira Kalman - Children's, Picture
written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman - Fiction, Young Adult 14+

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.