"Now That Days Are Colder" by Aileen Fisher, Designed & Illustrated by Gordon Laite, Lettering by Paul Taylor (1973)

GORDON LAITE (1925 - 1978) was born in New York City to Polish immigrants. Sometime during his early childhood Charles and Blanche Fisher Laite became his foster parents.
Charles Laite was a  Broadway actor who appeared in four silent films. Charles died in  1937 of a heart attack at the stage door of the Cleveland House Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was an understudy for the play "In a Nutshell."
Blanche was the  illustrator of one of the most popular children's book's ever sold, The Real Mother Goose by Rand McNally. Over 3,600,000 copies of this book have been sold since its first printing in 1916.
Gordon Laite attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and the Chicago Art Institute. He had a prolific career as an artist and illustrator of children's books.
Laite married his wife Jeanne in 1948 and the couple had three children. His later years were spent in Gallup, New Mexico until his death in 1978 at the age of 52.