ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet,
essayist, and travel writer. A literary celebrity in his lifetime,
he is best known for his works Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
ALICE AND MARTIN PROVENSEN began to illustrate children's books
together in 1946, many of them for Golden Books- The Fuzzy Ducking;
The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense; The Golden Treasury of Myths
and Legends; The Iliad and the Odyssey; and The Color Kittens, one
of the most beloved Golden Books ever. The Provensens won the
Caldecott Medal in 1984 for The Glorious Flight, which they also
wrote. Martin Provensen passed away in 1987.
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