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.
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I liked her illustrations for A Child’s Garden of Verses, too. I know that some of those poems haven’t stood the test of time, but I still love, “When I was down beside the sea/A wooden spade they gave to me/To dig the sandy shore./My holes were empty like a cup/In every hole the sea came up/Till it could come no more.” How simple and clean is that?!
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Another of my favorites as a child was A Is for Annabelle: A Doll’s Alphabet. Very pink, filled with roses, and simply lovely. I still have my copy from when I was little.
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