Uri Shulevitz (Hebrew: אורי שולביץ; born February 27, 1935) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
He won the 1969 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, an Eastern European fairy tale retold by Arthur Ransome in 1916.
[4] The family fled from Poland and settled in Paris by 1947, then moved again to Israel in 1949.
Shulevitz moved to New York City in 1959, studying painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and working as an illustrator for a Hebrew children's book publisher.
In 1962, an editor at Harper & Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested he write children's books.