"Colors Are Nice" by Adelaide Holl, illustrated by Leonard Shortall (1962)

"Riddles, Riddles from A to Z" by Carl Memling, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (1962)

TRINA SCHART HYMAN (1939 - 2004) illustrated over 150 books during her long career, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends. She received the 1985 Caldecott Medal for Saint George and the Dragon and was awarded Caldecott Honors three times. During the 1970s she developed a reputation as a talented and versatile illustrator for the children's magazine Cricket. Later she provided art for tales by such noted writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, and John Updike.
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"Easy Answers to Hard Questions" pictures by Susan Perl, text by Susanne Kirtland (1968)

SUSAN PERL né SUSANNE PERLMANN was born and attended school in Vienna. Her family succeeded in emigrating to Italy in 1939 through Italy with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Her sister Erica Merkling also became an illustrator there.

Susan Perl worked as an illustrator at Condé Nast for Vogue, House & Garden and Glamor until 1952. After a stay at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich from 1952 to 1954, she became a freelance illustrator in the USA. She lived in Manhattan .

Perl also worked for advertising and product design. From 1966, her drawings accompanied a PR campaign by the children's clothing manufacturer Healthtex under the title The Handy Answers to Hard Questions Asked by Children in the Health-tex Years .

She has drawn for the magazines Harper's Bazar, Reader's Digest, Columbia Pictures , LIFE and for the children's page in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. She was particularly known for her children's and animal motifs and illustrated a large number of books, including some of her own children's books and also her own comic The Sex Life of the American Female.