Pandora Paperback - 1944

(1903-1970) TIME Magazine called Clare Turlay Newberry "the best cat artist since the Egyptians," and she was lauded by the New York Times for creating "The very best cat pictures that have ever been made." Her books sold internationally and are still published in the US, Japan and Korea. Newberry attended the University of Oregon, followed by the School of the Portland Art Museum, and the San Francisco Art Institute. At age 26, she went to Paris and began her studies at The Acadmie de la Grande Chaumire with the intention of becoming a children's portrait painter, but it was there that she began work on the illustrations for what would become her first best seller. Newberry had already won three Caldecott Honors before she wrote and illustrated PANDORA: BARKIS, about a Cocker Spaniel puppy, APRIL'S KITTENS about a little girl and her Siamese cat family, and MARSHMALLOW, about a baby bunny adopted by a middle-aged cat. She later won Caldecott Honors for a book co-starring Felicia, her infant daughter, in T-BONE THE BABYSITTER. Both APRIL'S KITTENS and MARSHMALLOW are still available from HarperCollins. Newberry's other published works include: HERBERT THE LION, MITTENS, BABETTE, COUSIN TOBY, DRAWING A CAT, LAMBERT'S BARGAIN, CATS, A Portfolio, SMUDGE, PERCY, POLLY AND PETE, ICE CREAM FOR TWO, CATS & KITTENS Portfolio, DRAWING CATS, THE KITTENS' ABC and FROSTY.