The International Conference of Police Associations complains that the book portrays police officers as incompetent pigs, calls the characterization offensive and has the book banned from certain places.
1970s
Begins publishing novels with the editor Michael di Capua
In the 1970s he begins to publish children's novels at Farrar, Straus and Giroux with the editor Michael di Capua, among them “Dominic” (1972), “Abel's Island” (1976) and “The Amazing Bone” (1977).
1970 · Distinción
Caldecott Medal
1972
Moves from New York City to rural Connecticut
Together with his wife Jeanne he leaves New York City for rural Connecticut.
