She worked designing textiles before she began creating book illustrations. In 1946 Domanska studied painting in Italy, and then emigrated to the United States in 1952. She was held briefly in a concentration camp in Germany, before being released to stay with a doctor and his family in Germany. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in 1939. Damanska’s correspondence from 1966-1990 as well as books and cards she created are part of the Grummond Collection at the McCain Library at the University of Southern Mississippi.ĭomańska was born in Warsaw. The aim of the program was to support “scholars engaged in projects based substantially on the holdings of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection.” Ī selection of Domanska's papers relating to 14 books that she published between 1962-78 are held in the Children's Literature Resource Collection at the University of Minnesota Library. The Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship was established at the University of Southern Mississippi through the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, the Janina Domanska Literary Estate, and the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. Astrid Lindgren's Mischievous Meg the 1992 version of The Bremen Town Musicians by the brothers Grimm and Ten and a Kid by Sadie Rose Weilerstein, which won the 1962 National Jewish Book Award for children's literature. The books she illustrated that were written by others include an edition of Trumpeter of Kraków, the Newbery award winning children’s novel by Eric P. Her book King Krakus and the Dragon received a starred Kirkus review highlighting the "rich color, sumptuous design, and a splendid peacock of a dragon adorn this old Polish tale of King Krakus who founded Krakow." Her own titles include The Tortoise and the Tree, Din Dan Don It's Christmas, Spring is, and The Best of the Bargain. She also illustrated 23 books by other authors. ĭomańska wrote, adapted and translated 22 books with her own illustrations. She won a Caldecott Honor for her book If All the Seas Were One Sea in 1972. Janina Domańska (28 July 1913 – 2 February 1995) was a Polish-born American artist, author and illustrator.She is best known for her self-illustrated children's books.
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