Helen Sewell - American illustrator and writer of children's books 1896-1957 Helen Moore Sewell One of the busiest artists at work in the field of children’s illustration during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Helen Moore Sewell had a lifelong interest in depicting the world around her that was rooted in
Crockett Johnson - American author and illustrator, 1906-1975 Crockett Johnson Best known as the creator of Harold and the "Purple Crayon Books” and as illustrator of Ruth Krauss’s The Carrot Seed, Crockett Johnson was a cartoonist whose simplest, sparest, and boldest outlines produced unforgettable, gently humorous, and always endearing caricatures
James Fenimore Cooper - American author, 1789-1851 James Fenimore Cooper An anecdote about James Fenimore Cooper tells us that while he was reading a British novel one evening, he threw the book down in disgust, saying he could write a better story. Responding to his wife’s challenge to do so,
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky - Russian illustrator, 1891-1970 Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky About his youth, the Russian-born Feodor Rojankovsky remarked: “Two great events determined the course of my childhood, I was taken to the zoo and saw the most marvelous creatures on earth: bears, tigers, monkeys and reindeer; and, while my admiration
Arthur Burdett Frost - American comic artist and illustrator, 1851-1928 Arthur Burdett Frost In the golden age of American illustration (1880-1915), Arthur Burdett Frost was one of the stars of a distinguished company and, like his fellow luminary and close friend Howard Pyle, equally an adults’ and a children’s illustrator.
Philip Pullman - British novelist and playwright, b. 1946 Philip Pullman With the publication of The Ruby in the Smoke in England in 1985 (1987 in the United States), Philip Pullman, a former schoolteacher raised in Rhodesia, Australia, London, and Wales, launched his career as a writer of young adult