found: Levy, E. Nice little girls, 1974.
found: The giant, c1995: CIP t.p. (Mordicai Gerstein) data sheet (b. 11-24-35)
found: The story of May, c1993: t.p. (Mordicai Gerstein) jkt. (b. in Los Angeles)
found: Parrots & pirates, 2011: t.p. (illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein)
found: Mordicai Gerstein, via WWW, Apr. 18, 2012 (writes and illustrates children's picture books, also a painter, sculptor, and designer and director of animated films; lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and family; attended Chouinard Institute of Art)
found: Wikipedia, via WWW, Apr. 18, 2012 (lives in Westhampton, Mass.; received the Caldecott Medal for The man who walked between the towers, in 2004)