Jan. 2025: Oldest living writers/illustrators!

Children's writers/illustrators, mostly from the "Something About the
Author" encyclopedias (I've removed Niels Jensen, from 1927; the Danish
Wikipedia says he died in 2015):
1920
Barthe DeClements ("Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade," 1981)
1921
Patricia Curtis ("Animals You Never Even Heard Of," 1997)
Belinda Hurmence ("A Girl Called Boy," 1982)
Martha Tolles ("Who's Reading Darci's Diary?" 1984)
1922
Joan Heilbroner ("Robert, the Rose Horse," 1962)
Mildred Pitts Walter (1987 Coretta Scott King Medalist: "Justin and the
Best Biscuits in the World")
1923
Pieter van Raven (aka James Edward Duffy, 1990 Scott O'Dell Award winner
for "A Time of Troubles")
Josep Vallverdú (Catalan poet/novelist/playwright & 1988 Hans Christian
Andersen Award finalist)
William Wise ("Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler," 2004)
Aaron Judah (British author: "God and Mr. Sourpuss," 1960)
Gloria Whelan (National Book Award winner: "Homeless Bird," 2000)
1924
Toshiko Kanzawa (aka Toshi Furukawa, Japanese author and HCAA finalist:
2000 & 2006)
Prudence Andrew (British author of 1960s "Ginger" series)
1925
Frank Graham, Jr. (nature/sports writer & Audubon Society editor)
Linda Allen (British writer: "Mrs. Simkin" series, 1979-1996)
Barbara J. Brenner ("If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days"
2000)
Edward Ormondroyd ("David and the Phoenix," 1957)
Wilanne Schneider Belden (1980s fantasy novelist: "Mind-Call" trilogy)
Domenico Volpi (Italian author and HCAA finalist, 1974)
1926
Ina Friedman ("How My Parents Learned to Eat," 1984)
Alain Trez (French cartoonist/illustrator)
Carla Stevens (aka Carla Stevens Bigelow: "Rabbit & Skunk and the Scary
Rock," 1976)
Patricia Coombs ("Dorrie" witch series, 1962-1992)
George Ford (Illustrator & 1973 Coretta Scott King Medalist: "Ray
Charles" by Sharon B. Mathis)
Alfred Slote (aka A. H. Garnet, baseball and sci-fi novelist)
Darwin McBeth Walton ("Kwanzaa: A World of Holidays," 1998)
Miriam Cohen ("Will I Have a Friend?" 1967)
Muriel Batherman ("Before Columbus," 1981)
Hilary Knight (illustrator: Kay Thompson's "Eloise")
Herma Werner (romance/mystery/adventure writer, aka Eve Cowen & Eve
Gladstone, 1978-1994)
Joan Solomon (South African-born British writer: "Everybody's Hair,"
1988)
Harriette Abels (sci-fi/romance/mystery novelist)
Marjorie-Ann Watts (British illustrator of Catherine Storr's "Polly and
the Wolf" series)
1927
Mary Chalmers (illustrator: "The Secret Language" by Ursula Nordstrom,
1960)
Ruth Lercher Bornstein ("The Summer Everything Changed," 2012)
Ancka Gošnik Godec (Slovene illustrator & 2010 HCAA finalist)
George Sullivan (sports/biographies/nonfiction writer)
Melvin Berger (author of 200 science/nonfiction books)
Mort Künstler (MAD cartoonist, illustrator, & historical painter)
Margot Webb (German-born writer: "Too Young To Die: The Story of José,"
2003)
Dorothy Levenson (Australian-born writer: "The Magic Carousel," 1967)
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (2001 Coretta Scott King Honoree: "Virgie
Goes to School with Us Boys")