Caliendo, Giovanni

Giovanni Caliendo is formerly from Pavia, Italy, and an award winning artist and craftsman since the early 1960's; he has worked with both private clients and large firms throughout his long creative career. At a whim in the early 1970's he began illustrating the stories he told his children, "The Brave Little Spider" being the first. Since then as time became available at the studio, he continued to write and illustrate fiction stories for both children and adults. Choosing not to publish, his manuscripts continued to accumulate on the studio bookshelves until recently, in his retirement. Wit...