Maud and Miska Petersham

The Petershams worked closely with such pioneering children's book editors as Louise Seaman Bechtel and May Massee, and with such innovative printers as Charles Stringer and William Glaser.

[3] The third of four daughters, Maud graduated from Vassar College in 1912, and later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art.

While working at the International Art Service (IAS), a graphic design firm in New York City, she met her future husband, Miska Petersham.

[4] By 1923, they were established and able to buy land and build a house in Woodstock, New York, on the edge of the thriving Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony.

The titles so honored were Nursery Friends from France, Children of the Mountain Eagle, Tales Told in Holland and Get-A-Way and Háry János.

Today they may be known best as creators of that winning work, The Rooster Crows (Macmillan, 1945), a collection of American songs, rhymes, and games.