Illustrators: Alice and Martin Provensen

Renowned husband-and-wife illustrators Alice and Martin Provensen created dozens of beloved children's books over the span of seven decades, many of which appeared on the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year lists.

They started by illustrating books written by other authors, such as The Color Kittens and The Fuzzy Duckling, classics from the Little Golden Book series. Soon the Provensens were writing and illustrating their own books. Some were based on classic stories such as Aesop’s Fables, Mother Goose, Bible tales, and the plays of Shakespeare.

From early favorites for Golden Books such as 1949's The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown to their 1983 Caldecott-winning title The Glorious Flight Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, the Provensens' legendary visual style has inspired generations of young readers and modern illustrators alike.

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Alice & Martin Provensen Scanned FlipBooks

The Color Kittens - Flipbook
The Fuzzy Duckling - Flipbook
The Little Fat Policeman - Flipbook
The Animal Fair - Flipbook
Funny Bunny - Flipbook

Books

• #49 Mr. Noah and His Family, by Jane Werner  (Little Golden Book 1949)
• #75 Katie the Kitten, by Kathryn & Byron Jackson (Little Golden Book 1949)
• #75 Katie the Kitten, (A First Little Golden Book) by Kathryn & Byron Jackson (Little Golden Book 1949)
• Funny Bunny ( a Big Golden Book) by Rachel Learnard (Simon and Schuster 1950)
• #78 The Fuzzy Duckling, (A First Little Golden Book) by Jane Werner Watson (Little Golden Book 1949) #557 (1964)
• #86 The Color Kittens, by Margaret Wise Brown (Little Golden Books, 1949) #436 (1961)
• #91 The Little Fat Policeman, by Margaret Wise Brown and Edith Thacher Hurd (Little Golden Book 1950)


• What is a Color? A Big Golden Book,  (Golden Press, 1968)
• The Mother Goose Book (Random House, 1976)
• Old Mother Goose and other nursery rhymes, (A Little Golden Book 1988)
• Tales from the Ballet,  Louis Untermeyer (Editor),  (Golden Press, 1968)
• The Provensen Animal Book (Golden Press, 1952), a.k.a. The Animal Fair
• My Little Hen (Random House, 1973) 
• A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson,  (Simon and Schuster, 1951)
• The Golden Bible: The New Testament (Golden Press, 1953)
• The Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends by Anne Terry White (Golden Press, 1959)
• Aesop's FablesA Giant Golden Book, Louis Untermeyer (Editor),  92 pages, (Golden Press 1965)
• The Iliad and the Odyssey by Jane Werner Watson (Golden Press, 1956)
• The Book of Seasons (Random House)
• Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense,   Louis Untermeyer (Editor),  76 pages,  (Golden Books 1970)
• Roses Are Red, Are Violets Blue? (Random House)
• Who's in the Egg? (Golden, 1970)
• A Play on Words (Random House, 1970)
• Karen's Opposites (Golden, 1963)
• Karen's Curiosity (Golden, 1963)

 

  

Image source: Reading Ahead by Vicki Palmquist

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