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Children’s author-illustrator Byron Barton, known for his many picture books for very young children featuring simple text and images rendered in bold blocks of color and thick black outline, died June 3 at his home in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., following a long illness; he was 92.
The author reflects on her classic 1967 novel, its 1983 film adaptation and its legacy today
Apr 13, 2021 A Girl Named Al and Beat the Turtle Drum, died on April 7 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Conn. She was 96. Greene was born on October 24, 1924 in Manhattan, the second daughter of Mabel and Richard Clarke, both journalists. Mabel Clarke was the first movie critic for the New York Daily News, the same newspaper where Richard Clarke served as managing editor. Greene grew up in Larchmont, and upon graduating from Marymount School in Manhattan, she enrolled at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1942. But after two years of study, Greene left college in 194...