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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 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
• The Christmas Ark, illustrated by Daniel San Souci (1991)
• 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 Red Heels, illustrated by Gary Kelley. Dial Books (1996)
• The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Press (1997)
• Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Legend from California's Yosemite Valley, illustrated by Daniel San Souci. Yosemite Association (1997)
• Cinderella Skeleton, illustrated by David Catrow (2004)[4]
• ” The Twins and the Bird of Darkness: a Hero Tale from the Caribbean”, illustrated by Terry Widener (2002)
• 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)
• The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
• Sootface: An Objibwa Cinderella Story, illustrated by Daniel San Souci (1994)

References

External links

• San Souci at the Houghton Mifflin Publishing website
• San Souci at the Scholastic Books website
• San Souci at the Simon and Schuster Books website
• Robert D. San Souci at IMDb

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