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And anytime he came upon something that would be useful to me, or the other illustrators he worked with, he would send us this whole package to help us with visualizing the characters.”
San Souci’s stories often featured strong female Native American and African-American characters.
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Mourning Children's Book Author Robert D.
San Souci
“Working with Bob,” Daniel said, “it was the most wonderful process. I think he was a fixture at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley researching his books. And so I think he just did a lot of good.”
Daniel San Souci says he’ll soon announce plans for a memorial to his brother to be held sometime in February or March.
Who is Robert D.
San Souci?
Robert D. San Souci is a native of California.
He was best known for his adaptations of folklore for children. Daniel says he thinks his brother developed that focus when the two were kids growing up in Berkeley.
“There would be a whole group of us who would go to the Oaks Theatre (on Solano Avenue) all the time," he said.
"And everyone was always cheering when the cavalry came and the bugle was calling, except Bob. Bob was always for the Indians. And it was because he was doing so much reading about Native Americans at the time.
“He always felt a lot of people were getting shortchanged, and people should be enlightened, and there was no better way to do this than start off when people were kids.
Robin Hood and the golden arrow : based on the traditional English ballad
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- 1946
San Francisco - Also known as
- Robert San Souci
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San Souci
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He attended college at St. Mary's College in Moraga. He also wrote nonfiction works for children, several novels for adults, and the film story for Disney's Mulan.During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 books for young readers including Song of Sedna, Kate Shelley: Bound for Legend, The Talking Eggs, Two Bear Cubs, Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, Brave Margaret: An Irish Tale, Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow, and Cinderella Skeleton.
The Legend of Scarface won the Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies, National Council for the Social Studies, and was a Horn Book honor list citation. He died on December 19, 2014 at the age of 68. Sukey and the Mermaid won the American Library Association's Notable Book citation in 1992 and Cut from the Same Cloth won an Aesop Award from the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society.
He wrote 12 books which were illustrated by his younger brother Daniel San Souci including The Legend of Scarface, Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females, and As Luck Would Have It: From The Brothers Grimm. He was born in San Francisco and stillreside in The City by the Bay. The city will always be "home base" for him, but his travels have taken him all across the country, where he had foundinspiration for many of his books: KATE SHELLEY: Bound for Legend (Iowa), THETALKINGEGGS (Louisiana), LITTLEGOLDSTAR (New Mexico), and CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH : AmericanWomen of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale (representing 15 areas of the United States).