Rumer Godden (1907-1998) grew up in India, where her father ran a steamship company. She wrote more than sixty books for adults and young adults, several of which, including 
An Episode of Sparrows, 
 and 
The Mousewife have been published in The New York Review Children's Collection. 
 Adrienne Adams (1906-2002) was a children's book illustrator who won two Caldecott Honors (for Alice E. Goudey's 
Houses from the Sun in 1959 and 
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up in 1961) and the Rutgers Award for her contribution to children's literature. She illustrated more than thirty books, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.