Featured Image Caption
Children’s Book Week poster by Richard Scarry, 1975. Gift of Lorraine and Peter Stern.
Children’s Book Week Posters
March 4 - May 18, 2003
Central Gallery
Since 1919, the Children’s Book Council, a non-profit trade association, has annually commissioned some of the most beloved children’s book illustrators to design posters that encourage reading. On view are twenty-six posters, from Jessie Wilcox Smith’s scene of idyllic childhood (1920) to Emily Arnold McCully’s image of protesting children (1969). The posters provide clues to the history, social climate, and wider concerns of the country during the eras represented.
Featured Artists
Walter Cole,
Laurent de Brunhoff,
Tomie dePaola,
Richard Floethe,
Kenneth Fagg,
F. Hasse,
Gertrude Howe,
Ezra Jack Keats,
Anita Lobel,
Arnold Lobel,
Marguerite Lofft de Angeli,
James Marshall,
Emily Arnold McCully,
Gerald McDermott,
Jerry Pinkney,
Martin Provensen,
Paul Rand,
Ellen Raskin,
Richard Scarry,
Trina Schart Hyman,
Maurice Sendak,
Kate Seredy,
Helen Sewell,
Uri Shulevitz,
James Stevenson,
Jean Thomas Ungerer,
Leonard Weisgard,
Rosemary Wells,
Jessie Wilcox Smith,
Garth Williams,
Margot Zemach,
Alice Provensen