What is Katherine Milhous?
[[File:Rural Pennsylvania WPA poster, ca. 1938.jpg|thumbnail|This is a poster made by Katherine Milhous. The exact year it was made is not known, but it was made around the year 1938.]] '''Katherine Milhous''' (November 27, 1894 – December 5, 1977) was an [[Americans|American]] [[artist]], [[illustrator]] and [[author]]. She wrote and made the art for the book ''[[The Egg Tree]]''. In 1951, the book won the [[Caldecott Medal]] for best [[illustration]]s. Milhous mainly wrote [[children's book]]s. ==Early life== Katherine Milhous was born November 27, 1894 in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. Her parents were named Osborn and Katherine Daly Milhous. They were [[Quakers]] and [[printmaker]]s. The family moved to [[Pitman, New Jersey]] when Milhous was a little girl. A lot of Quakers lived in Pitman so the family wanted to move to be close to them.<ref>{{cite web | title =Our Town | work = Pittman, NJ | url = http://members.tripod.com/~passinthru_2/pitman.htm| accessdate = 2012-04-26}}</ref> Milhous moved back to Philadelphia. She went to school at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] and the [[University of the Arts (Philadelphia)|Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art]].<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=Poster of an Amish Family, Pennsylvania|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9569/|work=Work Projects Administration Poster Collection|publisher=[[World Digital Library]]|accessdate=2 January 2014}}</ref> She made art for [[magazine]]s to pay for school. She also traveled outside of the United States with a [[fellowship]] she was given.<ref name=freelibrary>{{cite web | title = Katherine Milhous and Frances Lichten Papers| work = Free Library of Philadelphia | url = http://libwww.freelibrary.org/ead/view.cfm?name=Milhous | accessdate = 2012-04-26}}</ref> ==Career== Milhous worked for the [[Federal Art Project]] in Philadelphia from the year 1935 until she stopped in 1940.<ref name=WDL1/> She made a lot of [[poster]]s to advertise the state of Pennsylvania. A lot of the art showed people and things from the [[