![]() ![]() In this early book, a boy hatches a plan to save a winter snowman from melting. ![]() “The Summer Snowman,” words by Gene Zion, 1955. Here are five books to remember Graham by: "The Summer Snowman," illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, words by Gene Zion, 1955. She loved to talk about books that she read, theater, movies.” “She was a voracious reader, mostly nonfiction. ![]() She was a very serious person,” Hagen says. “I knew her books before I knew her,” says Doris Hagen, who became friends with Graham as they were neighbors in Cambridge for nearly four decades. And because marriages had changed the name she went by (she published under her maiden name, but kept her second husband’s last name even after their split), even fellow attendees of a sketch group she participated in at the Blacksmith House Art Studio near Harvard Square could miss who exactly was drawing beside them. 22 at age 94, seems to have not generally made a big deal of her accomplishments. It could be easy to not recognize that Margaret Bloy Graham was the illustrator of “Harry The Dirty Dog” (HarperCollins Publishers), one of the most beloved children’s books of the past century. Facebook Email "Harry the Dirty Dog," illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, words by Gene Zion, 1956. ![]()
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