"The Romper Room Do Bee Book of Manners" by Nancy Claster, illustrated by Art Seiden (1960)

ART SEIDEN (1923 - 2004) was born in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years at the Art Students League. Upon entering the illustration field he did corporate and advertising work for some of the largest companies in America: Phillip Morris, Hoffmann-LaRoche, General Motors and Hearst Publications.
 
Seiden distinctive style is most recognized and well-known in the field of children's book illustration. The first title he illustrated was Three Mice and a Rat by Margaret Wise Brown and Jean H. Berg in 1950. Seiden illustrated over 300 books and was both author and artist of at least 22 children's books for every major publisher in America. Seiden spent the next fifty-plus years working with a multitude of authors and returned to work with Margaret Wise Brown with one final book, The Train to Timbuctoo, for Golden Books in 1999.

Seiden worked mainly in transparent watercolors and gouache. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and The Society of Illustrators, among others.