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Fred MarcellinoFred Marcellino (1939-July 12, 2001) was an illustrator and later an author of children's books. Among many other commissions, he was responsible for the covers of Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale and Thomas Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. He is sometimes credited with having revolutionized the style of book cover design in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Before Marcellino, book covers were often garish billboard-type advertisements for the books. Illustrators were presented with "tip sheets" that suggested where in the manuscript the illustrator might find a suitable character or location description to illustrate. Marcellino, however, insisted on reading the entire manuscript and producing a carefully-designed, tasteful illustration that captured the overall mood of the book, often symbolically. Marcellino's 1991 illustrations for Puss in Boots won a Caldecott honor, and his 1996 re-illustration of Little Black Sambo was a best-seller. He died on July 12, 2001, of colon cancer.
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