

Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Steig, and four children.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. He was also the US nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards as an illustrator in 1982, and then as an author in 1988.

Steig also received the Christopher Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, the America Book Award, and Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award.

Steig is also the creator of Shrek! which inspired the Dreamworks films. Most notably Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, for which he received the Caldecott Medal The Amazing Bone, a Caldecott Honor book Amos & Boris, a National Book Award Finalist and Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto, both Newbery Honor books. William Steig (1907-2003) was a cartoonist, illustrator, and author of award-winning books for children. When Sylvester finds a magic pebble that will grant any wish, he can't believe his luck! But after an unexpected scare on the way home, Sylvester makes a wish that has big repercussions. The charming Caldecott Medal-winning story about a magic pebble that makes wishes come true is now available as an adorable Classic Board Book!
