![]() ![]() ![]() He and his wife Maud worked prolifically for over fifty years, illustrating more than 120 picture books. Maud Fuller Petersham, Miska Petersham Published 1 August 1971 Miska Petersham Published 1 August 1971 Education Published 1 August 1971 Education. Educated at the Royal National School of Applied Artist in Budapest, he arrived in New York through Ellis Island in 1912. She and her husband Miska worked prolifically for over fifty years, illustrating more than 120 books.īorn Petrezselyem Mihaly in Torokszentmiklos, Hungary, in 1888, Miska Petersham is an internationally renowned, Caldecott Medal–winning writer and artist who helped define the modern picture book. Born to a deep-rooted American family in 1890, Maud attended Vassar College in 1912 and later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. They won a Caldecott Medal in 1946 for The Rooster Crows. Maud Petersham was an internationally renowned writer and artist who helped define the modern picture book. The Petershams first book was The Poppy Seed Cakes, commissioned by May Massee at Doubleday in 1929. ![]()
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