Robert D. San Souci
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Robert Daniel San Souci (October 10, 1946 – December 19, 2014) was a multiple award-winning children's book author, who resided in San Francisco, California.[1][2] He often worked with his brother, Daniel San Souci, a children's book illustrator. He was a consultant to Disney Studios and was instrumental in the production of the film Mulan, for which he wrote the story. He studied folklore in graduate school.[3] He died after suffering a head injury while falling from a high height in San Francisco in December 2014.
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Chapter books
- Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, illustrated by Katherine Coville (1987)
- More Short & Shivery: Thirty Terrifying Tales, illustrated by Katherine Coville (1994)
- Even More Short & Shivery: Thirty Spine-Tingling Tales, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers (1997)
- A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery: Thirty Creepy Tales, illustrated by Katherine Coville (1999)
- Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill, illustrated by David Ouimet. Cricket Books (2003), ISBN 0-8126-2688-5
- Haunted Houses (Are You Scared Yet? 1), co-illustrated by Kelly Murphy and Antoine Revoy (2010)
Picture books
- Sister Trickster, illustrated by Daniel San Souci
- Young Merlin, illustrated by Daniel Horne
- The Hobyahs
- Weave Of Words: An Armenian Tale Retold, illustrated by Raul Colon. Orchard Books (1998) (from a Nagorno-Karabakh folktale)
- The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Press (1989) (Caldecott Honor Book)
- N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims (1991) (illustrated by murals begun by Wyeth for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)
- The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Press (1997)
- Cinderella Skeleton, illustrated by David Catrow (2004)[4]
- Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (2002)
- Cut from the Same Rope: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale, with Jane Yolen, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (2000)
- Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior, illustrated by Jean & Mou-Sein Tseng (1998) (based on the legend of Hua Mulan)
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