title: The Crane (New York Review Children's Collection)
author:  Reiner Zimnik 
description: Reiner Zimnik was born in Poland and began drawinghorses and knights, mostlyat the age of five. At the end of the Second World War, he and his family left for the West, settling in Germany. After apprenticing as a cabinet-maker, Zimnik studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and has since written and illustrated many books for children, including <i>The Bear and the People</i> and <i>The Bear on the Motorcycle</i>.
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  * [The Van Alen Family Tree](../Text/the-v