Betsy Lewin
Encyclopedia
Betsy Reilly Lewin is an American
illustrator
from Clearfield, Pennsylvania
. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute
. After graduation, she began designing business 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. She is arguably best known for the Caldecott Honor Book Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type.
Also
Exhibition: "Around the World with Ted and Betsy Lewin"
October 30 - December 2, 2008
Exhibition: "Adventures With Ted and Betsy"
June 1 through June 11, 2005
Exhibition: "NCCIL Traveling Show"
Feb. 12 through May 1 2005
Exhibition: "Ted and Betsy Lewin's World of Picture Books"
March 4 - March 30, 2004
Exhibition: "Travels with Ted and Betsy Lewin"
Featured 78 original illustrations from many of their books.
Exhibition: "Adventures with Ted and Betsy", Abilene, TX, Watershouse, Germantown, MD, Wichita Falls, TX
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illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
from Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Clearfield is a borough in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 6,631 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clearfield County.-Geography:Clearfield is located at ....
. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
. After graduation, she began designing business 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
Ted lewin
Ted Lewin is an author/illustrator of children's books. Lewin and his wife Betsy Reilly drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books...
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. She is arguably best known for the Caldecott Honor Book Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type.
Books Illustrated
- Thump, Quack, Moo by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
and Betsy Lewin, Atheneum BooksAtheneum BooksAtheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....
, 2006, ISBN 9781416916307 - Horse Song: The Naadam of Mongolia by Ted LewinTed lewinTed Lewin is an author/illustrator of children's books. Lewin and his wife Betsy Reilly drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books...
and Betsy Lewin, Lee & Low BooksLee & Low Books-History:Lee & Low was founded in 1991 by Chinese Americans Tom Low and Philip Lee as a children's book publisher specializing in books featuring people of color and one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States. Low says, "There was a void in children's books. Most of the...
, 2008, ISBN 9781584302773 - Heat Wave by Eileen Spinelli, Harcourt Children's BooksHarcourt Trade PublishersHarcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. The company was based in San Diego, California, with an Editorial / Sales / Marketing / Rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida.In 2007, the U.S...
, 2007, ISBN 9780152167790 - Dooby, Dooby, Moo by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
, Atheneum BooksAtheneum BooksAtheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....
, 2006, ISBN 978-0-618-43477-0 and ISBN 0-618-43477-1 - Click Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
, Atheneum BooksAtheneum BooksAtheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....
, 2005, ISBN 9780689877155 - Click, Clack, Splish, Splash by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
, Atheneum BooksAtheneum BooksAtheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....
, 2005, ISBN 139780689877162 - Duck For PresidentDuck for PresidentDuck for President is a children's book written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Released in 2004 through Simon and Schuster, the New York Times Best Illustrated Book follows the further adventures of Farmer Brown's animals that were introduced in Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type...
by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
, Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, 2004, ISBN 0689863772 - Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin, Henry Holt, 2004, ISBN 0805067485
- The Sleepover by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic, 2003, ISBN 043938575X
- Cat Count by Betsy Lewin, Henry Holt, 2003, ISBN 0805067477
- Two Eggs Please by Sarah WeeksSarah WeeksSarah Weeks is a children's book author, perhaps best known for writing So B. It which in 2007 won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award.-Life:...
, Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, 2003, ISBN 068983196X - A Hug Goes Around by Laura Krauss Melmed, HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 2003, ISBN 0688146805 - Giggle, Giggle, QuackGiggle, Giggle, QuackGiggle, Giggle, Quack is a children's book by Doreen Cronin. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin, this sequel to Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type tells the story of Farmer Brown's brother Bob, who is farm-sitting for the vacationing Farmer Brown. Farmer Brown leaves a to-do list for Bob, but Duck is able...
by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
, Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, 2002, ISBN 0689845065 - Aunt Minnie and the Twister by Mary S. Prigger, Clarion Books, 2002, ISBN 0618111360
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That TypeClick, Clack, Moo: Cows That TypeClick, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type is an award-winning children's book by Doreen Cronin. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin, the Simon and Schuster book tells the story of Farmer Brown's cows, who find an old typewriter in the barn and proceed to write letters to Farmer Brown, listing various...
by Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
, Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, 2000, ISBN 0689832133 - Aunt Minnie McGranahan by Mary S. Prigger, Clarion Books, 1999, ISBN 039582270X
- No Such Thing by Jackie French KollerJackie French KollerJackie French Koller is an American author of picture books, chapter books, and novels for children and young adults. She lives and writes in western Massachusetts.Koller is also an accomplished painter...
, Boyds Mills Press, 1996, ISBN 1563974908 - Somebody Catch My Homework by David HarrisonDavid HarrisonDavid Harrison may refer to:*David Harrison , English artist*David Howard Harrison , Premier of Manitoba, Canada*David Harrison , American*David Harrison , Welsh-English...
, Boyds Mills Press, 1993, ISBN 1878093878 - Chubbo’s Pool by Betsy Lewin, Clarion Books, 1996, ISBN 039572807X
- What’s The Matter Habibi? by Betsy Lewin, Clarion Books, 1997, ISBN 039585816X
- Promises by Elizabeth WinthropElizabeth WinthropElizabeth Winthrop is a female author whose work is largely children's fiction. She is the daughter of Stewart Alsop and currently resides in New York CityHer book The Castle in the Attic was awarded the 1987 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award...
, Clarion Books, 2000, ISBN 0395822726 - Gorilla Walk by Ted and Betsy Lewin, (Lothrop) HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 1999, ISBN 0688165095 - Elephant Quest by Ted and Betsy Lewin, HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 2000, ISBN 0688141110 - Purrfectly Purrfect by Patricia Lauber, HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 2000, ISBN 0688172997 - Araminta’s Paintbox by Karen AckermanKaren AckermanKaren Ackerman is an American author of children's books.- Background :She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Woodward High School in 1969.- Career :...
, Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, Aladdin paperback, 1990, ISBN 0689820917 - Booby Hatch by Betsy Lewin, Clarion paperback, 1995, ISBN 0395845165
- Yo Hungry Wolf! by David Vozar, B.D.Dell paperback, 1993, ISBN 0440409535
- Dumpy Larue by Elizabeth WinthropElizabeth WinthropElizabeth Winthrop is a female author whose work is largely children's fiction. She is the daughter of Stewart Alsop and currently resides in New York CityHer book The Castle in the Attic was awarded the 1987 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award...
, Henry Holt, 2001, ISBN 0805063854 - A Houseful of Christmas by Barbara Joosse, Henry Holt, 2001, ISBN 0805063919
- Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic, ISBN 0590449486
- My Tooth is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic
- Gym Day Winner by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic, ISBN 0606092803
- Recess Mess by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic
- Lunchbox Surprise by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic
- I Have A Cold by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic, ISBN 0590396382
- Class Trip by Grace Maccarone, Scholastic, ISBN 0439067553
- Fraidy Cats by Stephen Krensky, Scholastic, ISBN 0590464388
- Groundhog Day by Betsy Lewin, Scholastic, ISBN 0439108020
- Is It Far to Zanzibar?: Poems About Tanzania by Nikki GrimesNikki GrimesNikki Grimes is an American author and illustrator of books written for children and young adults, as well as a poet and journalist. Grimes was born in Harlem, New York....
, HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, ISBN 0688131573 - Walk a Green Path by Betsy Lewin, HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 1995 - What is the Shark Wears Tennis Shoes? by Winifred Morris, Atheneum BooksAtheneum BooksAtheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....
, 1990 - Kitten in Trouble by M. Polushkin, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing,1988
- Furlie Cat by Berneice Frechet, 1986
- Hip, Hippo, Hooray by Betsy Lewin, 1982
Also
- Penny by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Lothrop, Lee * Shepard Books, 1987
Exhibits
Here is a partial list of recent exhibits featuring Betsy's works:- Pratt Institute Libraries
Exhibition: "Around the World with Ted and Betsy Lewin"
October 30 - December 2, 2008
- Society of Illustrators: main floor gallery
Exhibition: "Adventures With Ted and Betsy"
June 1 through June 11, 2005
- Massachusetts Audubon Center, Canton, MA.
Exhibition: "NCCIL Traveling Show"
Feb. 12 through May 1 2005
- Brooklyn Public Library, New York
Exhibition: "Ted and Betsy Lewin's World of Picture Books"
March 4 - March 30, 2004
- Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York
Exhibition: "Travels with Ted and Betsy Lewin"
Featured 78 original illustrations from many of their books.
- National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (NCCIL)
Exhibition: "Adventures with Ted and Betsy", Abilene, TX, Watershouse, Germantown, MD, Wichita Falls, TX
- Society of Illustrators, Original Art 2001 Silver Medalist
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
- University of Southern Missouri
- Society of Illustrators, Women Illustrators of the Century