Tag: Picture Books

Robert Lawson, Endpapers illustration for The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, 1936. The Morgan Library & Museum, 1970.16:1-37, Gift of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. © 1936 Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, renewed 1964 Munro Leaf and John W. Boyd. Used by permission of Viking Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Art Greg CookMay 14, 2026 0

Was Celebrated Picture Book ‘Ferdinand,’ A Pacifist/ Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ Gay Plot?

I first encountered the celebrated 1936 picture book “The Story of Ferdinand” not as a child, but as a young cartoonist trying to figure out how to draw with a…Continue Reading →

Seymour Chwast, Illustration for The 12 Circus Rings. (Seymour Chwast Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections. © 1993 Seymour Chwast.)

Art Greg CookJanuary 30, 2024 0

The Children’s Books Of Celebrated Designer Seymour Chwast

In 1954, Seymour Chwast, along with a handful of friends he’d made while studying art and design at Cooper Union, founded the New York design shop Push Pin Studios. Along…Continue Reading →

Tomie DePaola, from “The Art Lesson," 1989.

Art Greg CookMarch 30, 2020 0

An Interview With ‘Strega Nona’ Artist Tomie dePaola, Who Died Monday At Age 85

Tomie dePaola—the New Hampshire artist and children’s book creator who won the Caldecott Honor for his 1975 book “Strega Nona” about a kindly witch—died today at age 85. The Associated…Continue Reading →