One of the most prolific of all creators of children’s books isn’t, as one might guess, J.K. Rowling or Dr. Seuss — but the late…
Eleanor Estes, born May 9, 1906, wrote books for children for over 45 years, up to her death in 1988, but it is her early…
When Armstrong Sperry was a boy in Connecticut, he had a grandfather who had been to sea. The grandfather told young Armstrong hair-raising tales about…
Lucy Fitch Perkins was born in 1865, attended art school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, taught design and drawing at Pratt Institute and…
As a young boy growing up in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl Moon loved to read stories about Native Americans of the western United States and when…
T. S. Eliot has been called “The greatest literary figure of the English-speaking world in the 20th Century.” He was the recipient of the 1948…
In the opening minutes of the film version of E. B. White’s first children’s book — Stuart Little ( the prequel to film, Stuart Little 2, that’s…
Lynd Ward, an illustrator of both children’s and adult books, was born in 1905 in Chicago. His father was a Methodist minister. As a baby,…
One of the most well-known authors to emerge from the happy cultural fusion of East and West is the distinguished Indian novelist and poet Vikram…
James Daugherty was already an accomplished artist when he brought his talents to children’s literature. He had studied Baroque art in Europe, painted camouflage on…