Sadly, the LA Times has announced that author and illustrator Tasha Tudor has died at age 92.  Her first book was Pumpkin Moonshine, published in 1938.  Illustrator of nearly 40 books, Tudor was runner up for the Caldecott medal twice, once in 1945 for her Mother Goose and again in 1957 for 1 is One.

I personally consider her illustrations of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess to be the best ever.  They are the ones that come easily into my mind whenever I think of those beloved stories.  I must have read her version of both books dozens of times as a child.  They were favorites I returned to again and again.