Raymond Briggs (1934–2022)
Writer and illustrator of The Snowman (1978), among many other books.
Eric Carle (1929–2021)
Artist and author of countless books for children.
Art criticism
Caroline Pratt: “I sometimes feared that if we discovered a genius, his contemporaries would shame him into becoming an academician, such is the conservatism of children.”
Blue and red
From my daughter’s childhood: a painting of a watercolor palette.
A is for Artichoke
Sally Rightor Parks’s A is for Artichoke (Pasadena: Water Works, 2014) is a book of fifty-two paintings, two for each letter of the alphabet.
Bernard Waber (1921–2013)
He wrote and illustrated the Lyle books.
A riddle
An illuminated manuscript from the second grade
A timeline of ancient history
[Illustration by Benjamin Leddy.] The recent discovery of evidence of sacrifice to a pre-Greek, pre-Zeus deity enhances our understandin...