Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott (; 22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was an English artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognised by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years.
Marie Hall Ets
Marie Hall Ets (December 16, 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – January 17, 1984 in Inverness, Florida) was an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement house on the northwest side of the city. In 1960 she won the annual Caldecott Medal for her illustrations of "Nine Days to Christmas", whose text she wrote with Aurora Labastida. She died in 1984. "Just Me" and "In the Forest" are both Caldecott Honor books. The black-and-white charcoal illustrations in "Just Me" "almost take on the appearance of woodcuts" and are similar in style to the illustrations in "In the Forest". Constantine Georgiou comments in "Children and Their Literature" that Ets' "picture stories and easy-to-read books" (along with those of Maurice Sendak) "are filled with endearing and quaint human touches, putting them at precisely the right angle to life in early childhood." "Play With Me", says Georgiou, is "a tender little tale, delicately illustrated in fragile pastels that echo the quiet mood of the story." Ets also transcribed the autobiography "Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant".