Betsy lewin biography

Betsy Lewin grew up in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
Betsy Reilly Lewin is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
Betsy Reilly Lewin (born May 12, 1937) is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania.

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The following is an Archived biography. For current information, see the Abstract for links.

Betsy Lewin was born Betsy Reilly on May 12, 1937, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The rural surroundings of Clearfield gave the young Lewin countless opportunities to exercise her imagination. Her feet were about as free as her mind, as she played often in the woods near her home. Lewin always had her mind set on becoming an artist. She was influenced, as so many are, by her mother: Winifred Dowler was a kindergarten teacher and read to Lewin and her brother every night. Lewin's father, John K. Reilly, worked in insurance sales.

Throughout her youth, Lewin drew on anything she could find—napkins, paper bags, and even the sidewalk. Not surprisingly, she went on to study illustration at the Pratt Institute of Art in New York City, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1959. Prior to attending Pratt, Lewin had no formal artistic training of any kind.

After graduating, Lewin found work as an assistant art director at a greeting-card company in New York. She began freelan

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When not at work on their books, Ted and Betsy love to travel to exotic places around the world gathering material for new books. At home each of them has a studio in their brownstone house in Brooklyn. Besides the usual clutter of pencils and pens, paint tubes and brushes, drawing paper and, of course, books, they surround themselves with mementos of their travels: peacock feathers from India, Herero dolls from Botswana, Galimoto toys from Namibia and Brazil, digeridoos from Australia, postcards and snapshots, and countless stones and seashells and bits of cloth that transport them back to the lands they visited. Their cat, Sophie, can usually be found napping on their drawing table.

Betsy was awarded a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators Original Art show for Click, Clack, Moo; Cows That Type, and an Honor for the first ever Ted Geisel Award given by the ALA for the book she illustrated, Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa.

In 2015 Ted and Betsy Lewin were inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

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Betsy Lewin

American children's illustrator and writer (born 1937)

Betsy Reilly Lewin (born May 12, 1937) is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduation, she began designing greeting cards. She began writing and illustrating stories for children's magazines and eventually children's books. She is married to children's book illustrator Ted Lewin and with him has co-written and illustrated several books about their travels to remote places, including Uganda in Gorilla Walk and Mongolia in Horse Song,^[1] as well as How to Babysit a Leopard: and Other True Stories from Our Travels Across Six Continents (Roaring Brook Press, 2015). She is arguably best known for the Caldecott Honor BookClick Clack Moo: Cows that Type.

Books illustrated

Thump, Quack, Moo: A Wacky Adventure by Doreen CroninAtheneum Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4169-1630-7
Horse Song: The Naadam of Mongolia by Ted Lewin and Betsy Lewin, Lee & Low Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58430-277-3
Heat Wave by Eile