Douglas Florian

Douglas Florian has written and illustrated more than sixty books for children. His awards include a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Gryphon Award, a Bank Street College “Best Book of the Year,” and the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. His most recent book is Windsongs: Poems About Weather. A retrospective of his poetry and children’s book art was held at Poets House in Manhattan.

Douglas Florian has presented his books of poetry at The White House, Carnegie Hall, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and hundreds of schools across America