THE ESTATE OF JAMES STEVENSON

“A master of all trades. An abundance of wonderful, wonderful work. As a younger person, when I started at the New Yorker, he was one of the gods.” — Michael Maslin, cartoonist

James Stevenson was a prolific poet, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist, publishing more than 100 children's books and contributing 79 covers and 1,988 cartoons to The New Yorker, where he was a cartoonist for over 50 years. Stevenson was born in New York City and educated at Yale University, where he was the feature editor of campus humor magazine. His children's books were embraced by children and critics alike, winning Children's Choice Awards, Parents' Choice Awards, as well as ALA, Boston Globe/Horn Book, and School Library Journal notices. Some of his most popular titles are COULD BE WORSE, WHAT’S UNDER MY BED, DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH, POPCORN, and the many books in his MUDFLAT, WORST, and EMMA series. In his spare time, he illustrated for Jack Prelutsky, Judy Blume, and Dr. Seuss. He died in 2017 at the age of 87.