Peter is also author and illustrator of Rose's Garden, a heartwarming fable dedicated to the late Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, I’m Here, So Few of Me, The Smallest Gift of Christmas, and Playing from the Heart. His other series of original, animated film shorts, including 'The Blue Shoe,' 'Living Forever,” “Above & Beyond,” 'He Was Me,' and “I’m Here”, “The Reflection In Me” - all produced by FableVision Studios - have won many awards and honors around the globe. The North Star was released as an animated film, produced by his Boston-based educational media & interactive fim FableVision Studios in collaboration with Scholastic Weston Woods. As a book, curriculum and musical, The North Star has inspired children of all ages around the world.

Peter’s art and spare text convey a powerful allegory that challenges each of us to follow our own unique path through life. Since then, each September, a growing number of educators and students have joined International Dot Day for a global celebration of creativity in the classroom, with over 19 million teachers, librarians and students from 189 countries participating to date.Īnother of Peter’s cornerstone books, The North Star, was originally self-published in 1997 under the FableVision Press imprint, and eventually republished by Candlewick Press.

In 2009, Iowa-based educator Terry Shay introduced his classroom to The Dot and spearheaded a one-day celebration of creativity, courage, and collaboration to coincide with book’s publication anniversary date.

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