cover image Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art

Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art

Barbara Elleman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $25.99 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-618-00342-6

Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art by Barbara Elleman looks at the artist close up, from her early stints as a dancer and newspaper illustrator, to the founding of Folly Cove Designers (where she was a top producer of hand-crafted textiles), to her career as a writer and illustrator of books for children. Family photos, original sketches and reproductions of Burton's manuscripts (with text recorded by a manual typewriter) personalize the offering.