Ruth Krauss
Author · July 25, 1901 – July 10, 1993 · 50 works
Ruth Krauss was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 25, 1901, to Julius and Blanche (Rosenfeld) Krauss. She constantly read, wrote, and drew as a child, and was allowed to quit school after the eighth grade to study art and the violin. Krauss eventually earned a B.A. degree from the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art in New York City and casually studied anthropology at Columbia University. She married David Johnson Leisk, who wrote and illustrated children's books under the pseudonym Crockett Johnson, in 1941. (Source (external link, opens in new tab).)
Books by Ruth Krauss
The Carrot Seed
1945
A Hole Is to Dig
1952
Happy Day
1949
Bears
1948
Open House for Butterflies (Carrot Seed Classics)
1960
A very special house
1920
The Growing Story
1947
I'll Be You and You Be Me
1954
I Can Fly (A Golden Classic)
1950
Charlotte and the white horse
1955
The Happy Egg
1967
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue
1956
Somebody else's nut tree
1958
The Backward Day
1950
You're Just What I Need
1998
Goodnight Goodnight Sleepyhead
2004
Everything under a mushroom
1973
Big and little
1987
The big world and the little house
1949
The birthday party
1957
All the World's a Stage
1972
Is this you?
1955
There's a little ambiguity over there among the bluebells, and other theater poems
1968
The cantilever rainbow
1965
A good man and his good wife
1944
Monkey day
1957
How to make an earthquake
1954
Growing Story
Growing Story
2007
I write it
I write it
1970
Somebody spilled the sky
1979
Bouquet of Littles
1963
The up and down book
2004
What a fine day for ..
1967
If Only
If Only
1969
The bundle book
1951
Eyes, nose, fingers, toes
Eyes, nose, fingers, toes
1964
When I Walk I Change the Earth
1978
This thumbprint
1967
Charlotte and The White Horse
Charlotte and The White Horse
1955
Little boat lighter than a cork
1976