Hello!
Thank you for your visit. Here are a few tidbits about me:
photo: George Simmons
![Sylvie Kantorovitz
[kantor-o-vitz]
children’s book author and illustrator](about.me_files/shapeimage_1.png)
- I was born in Casablanca in 1960 and grew up in France. Yes, I have an accent!
- I always loved to read and draw, often at the expense of homework. Still do.
- I became a school teacher and read and drew for my students, of course. Lots!
- In 1980, I went to New York for a year and studied at the Arts Students League. Back in France, I studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. I added painting to my series of bad habits and discovered -or re-discovered- the magic of children’s books. I am still under the spell. Maybe for life!
- I settled in the US in 1985 and now live in Albany, NY with my extraordinary daughter, Samantha who likes to draw even more than I do. How is that possible?
- I will gladly answer to either Sylvie Wickstrom or Sylvie Kantorovitz (my birth name).
-Besides reading and drawing, I like music, theater, movies, picnics and dreaming. Daydreaming is a special talent of mine.
- I am the oldest of 4 children and 2 others are also artists! My sister Eva is a fabulous painter and my brother David is both a painter and a graphic book author. My brother Albert, on another hand, is way into computers.