Happy 90th, Ruth Robbins! (Illustrator, "A Wizard of Earth..

Some say she was born in 1918. She lives in Berkeley, California and
taught for some years there at the University of California.

Her retelling of "Baboushka and the Three Kings" won the 1961
Caldecott Medal.



WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

* Baboushka and the Three Kings (illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov),
Parnassus, 1960.

* The Emperor and the Drummer Boy (illustrated by N. Sidjakov),
Parnassus, 1962.

* Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, The Magic Stick (illustrated by
N. Sidjakov), Parnassus, 1965.

* Taliesin and King Arthur (illustrated by the author), Parnassus,
1970.

* How the First Rainbow Was Made: An American Indian Tale
(illustrated by the author), Parnassus (Oakland, CA), 1980.

Illustrator:

* Anne B. Fisher, Stories California Indians Told, Parnassus,
1957.

* Adrien Stoutenberg, Wild Animals of the Far West, Parnassus,
1958.

* Josephine H. Aldridge, A Penny and a Periwinkle, Parnassus,
1961.

* Ernestine N. Byrd, The Black Wolf of Savage River, Parnassus,
1961.

* Theodora Kroeber, Ishi, Last of His Tribe, Parnassus, 1964.

* J. H. Aldridge, Fisherman's Lock, Parnassus, 1966.

* Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, Parnassus, 1968.

* Charlotte Zolotow, The Beautiful Christmas Tree, Parnassus,
1972.

* Edward Ormondroyd, All in Good Time, Parnassus (Berkeley, CA),
1975.



Lenona.