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Sal Murdocca

Sal Murdocca has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and textbooks. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.
Night of the Ninth Dragon
Balto of the Blue Dawn
World at War, 1944
High Time for Heroes
Ninjas and Samurai
Pandas and Other Endangered Species
Dolphins and Sharks
Twisters and Other Terrible Storms
Rain Forests
Mummies and Pyramids
Ghost Town at Sundown
Afternoon on the Amazon

Books

Night of the Ninth Dragon
Balto of the Blue Dawn
World at War, 1944
High Time for Heroes
Ninjas and Samurai
Pandas and Other Endangered Species
Dolphins and Sharks
Twisters and Other Terrible Storms
Rain Forests
Mummies and Pyramids
Ghost Town at Sundown
Afternoon on the Amazon

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