Allen Say

Allen Say (born August 28, 1937, in Yokohama, Japan) is a celebrated Japanese-American author and illustrator of children's picture books who won the Caldecott Medal for Grandfather's Journey (1994) and a Caldecott Honor for The Boy of the Three-Year Nap (1988), among other awards including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and Oregon Book Award; his notable works also include Tree of Cranes, Tea with Milk, Drawing from Memory, and The Inker's Shadow, often drawing from his bicultural experiences between Japan and the United States. Reading Rockets, Society of Illustrators