Jane Dyer (born 1949) is an American author and illustrator of more than fifty books,[1] including Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Cookies series and Jeanne Birdsall's Lucky and Squash.
[3] Most of Dyer's work in children books illustrates family or home scenes.
[4] In 2015, Dyer spoke at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts and read Lucky and Squash aloud as part of her talk on the art-making process for picture books.
[6] In a School Library Journal review of Lucky and Squash, Anne Beier of the Hendrick Hudson Free Library in Montrose, New York, praises Dyer's illustrations and states that Dyer's paintings of the titular dogs' faces are priceless, particularly in the scenes where they are looking at each other through the fence and those where they are in their owners' arms.
[7] Similarly, a Kirkus Reviews article calls the illustrations in this book charming and writes that they "have all the clever details that are Dyer's signature touch".