I wrote about these picture book authors a couple of years ago, all of whom deserve your attention and that of your children:

Roger Antoine Duvoisin, b. 1904.
Phyllis Krasilovsky, b. 1926.
Allen Say, b. 1937.
Tasha Tudor, b. 1915

Also on this date, Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828.

Tasha Tudor and Family website.

My favorite Tasha Tudor books:

Actually, I rather like them all. Ms. Tudor is 92 years old this year, still living in her own home in rural Vermont.

Read here for an article on Tasha Tudor that originally appeared in Practical Homeschooling, Mary Pride’s magazine.

Whenever I get one of those questionnaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It’s an admirable profession, why apologize for it? You aren’t stupid because you’re a housewife. When you’re stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.” from The Private World of Tasha Tudor.