![]() ![]() He drew pictures and worked on his passion of illustrating and writing books on the side while he had jobs ranging from a window display artist, puppeteer and puppet builder, to an interior and set design illustrator. ![]() He majored in editorial illustration and took a course in Children's Book Writing, where he fell in love with and decided to pursue a career in children’s picture books. Stein attended the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan for college. Seuss, Richard Scarry, Ezra Jack Keats, Leo Leonni, Maurice Sendak (especially the Little Bear books), James Marshall, Jose Aruego, William Steig, Ludwig Bemelmans, and Bill Watterson. Some of the authors and illustrators that influenced him as a child were Dr. He even began to make up stories of his own. Evident from his fondness for drawing, Stein had a wild imagination that he loved to follow and escape into. He enjoyed daydreaming and listening to the many stories that his parents and grand-parents would read to him. His love for drawing started when he would doodle on post-it notes that his mother left around the house. David Ezra Stein was born in Brooklyn, NY. ![]()
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