In 2000, Falconer hit the children’s book jackpot with the Olivia series, which was named a Caldecott Honor Book and continues to be on the children’s image book best-seller list of The New York Times for almost 107 weeks.įor his latest children’s book, published in 2022, Falconer changed species. He converted ‘Olivia,’ a children’s book about a rowdy piglet that became a publishing sensation, from a character he had first created as a Christmas gift for a niece. Ian Falconer had a successful career drawing covers for The New Yorker and designing opera sets alongside David Hockney. He was the creator of the ‘Olivia’ series and died on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Norwalk, Connecticut, at the age of 63. Ian Falconer’s cause of death was announced by his agent and lawyer, Conrad Rippy, who said the cause was kidney failure.
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