HILDEGARDE H. SWIFT (1890-1977) wrote several books for children. Best known for The Railroad to Freedom, which was cited for a Newbery Honor, Ms. Swift spent her life recording the lives of heroic Americans. The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge is her most popular picture book.
LYND WARD (1905-1985) illustrated more than two hundred
books for children and adults throughout his prolific career.
Winner of the Caldecott Medal for his watercolors in The Biggest
Bear, Mr. Ward was also famous for his wood engravings, which are
featured in museum collections throughout the United States and
abroad.
"There is just enough humanizing in the pictures--the intimation of a face on the tower, fog forming a grasping hand--to maintain the human spirit of the story and lead to its message: 'Each to his own place, little brother.' " --New York Herald Tribune "Such a picture-story book as Mrs. Swift and Mr. Ward have made between them will not only be deeply enjoyed by boys and girls ... but will help to cultivate in them the seeing eye, and make them sensitive to the beauty which they can so easily find around them." --The New York Times
"There is just enough humanizing in the pictures--the intimation
of a face on the tower, fog forming a grasping hand--to maintain
the human spirit of the story and lead to its message: 'Each to his
own place, little brother.' " --New York Herald Tribune
"Such a picture-story book as Mrs. Swift and Mr. Ward have made
between them will not only be deeply enjoyed by boys and girls ...
but will help to cultivate in them the seeing eye, and make them
sensitive to the beauty which they can so easily find around them."
--The New York Times
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