What is Mordicai Gerstein?
'''Mordicai Gerstein''' (November 24, 1935 &ndash; September 24, 2019) was an American artist, writer, and movie director. He was best known for illustrating and writing [[children's literature|children's books]]. He illustrated the comic [[mystery fiction]] series ''[[Something Queer Is Going On|Something Queer is Going On]]''. He directed the [[NBC]] television movie ''[[The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree]]''. He won the 2004 [[Caldecott Medal]] for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing ''[[The Man Who Walked Between the Towers]]'', which he also wrote.<ref name=CaldecottWinners>{{cite web | url = http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal.cfm | title = Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–present | work = [[American Library Association]] | access-date = 2019-10-02 | archive-date = 2011-10-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111019171017/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal.cfm | url-status = dead }}</ref> He was born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. Gerstein died on September 24, 2019 in [[Westhampton, Massachusetts]] of [[cancer]] at the age of 83.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gazettenet.com/Mordicai-Gerstein-hg-093019-28898669|title=A 'walk off to the unknown': Mordicai Gerstein, Caldecott Medal winner, dies at 83|publisher=Gazettenet|date=October 2, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name |1672871}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerstein, Mordicai}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Massachusetts]] [[Category:American children's writers]] [[Category:American comics artists]] [[Category:American illustrators]] [[Category:Writers from Los Angeles]] [[Category:Movie directors from Los Angeles]] {{US-bio-stub}}