Known best for her Max and Ruby series of children's books, this New York-born illustrator and author also wrote the Voyage to the Bunny Planet books, as well as a historical fiction work titled Red Moon at Sharpsburg. She illustrated her first children's book, author Ellen Conford's Impossible, Possum, in the early 1970s. Her early solo-written children's books include Unfortunately Harriet and Noisy Nora.
