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Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth5/29/2023 In June 2010, Jon illustrated City Dog, Country Frog, written by Mo Willems. Jon has also been awarded the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators, a Sydney Taylor Award, a National Parenting Book Award, and he was a Book Sense book of the Year finalist. Zen Shorts was named a Caldecott Honor Book and spent 41 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Muth’s work has received much critical acclaim. After the birth of his first son, Jon J Muth felt the need to do a different kind of work that explored his relationship with “this new little being.” Over the next decade, Muth wrote and illustrated many inspiring picture books, including the “Zen” series, and Caroline Kennedy’s poetry anthologies. Jon studied stone sculpture in Japan paintings, prints and drawings in Austria, Germany, and England. He had his first one-man exhibit of paintings and drawings when he was eighteen. His mother was an art teacher and she took him to museums all over the US. Jon J Muth‘s highly acclaimed picture books are beloved around the world and have been translated into more than ten languages.
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