Re: Jan. 2025: Oldest living writers/illustrators!

1928
Barbara M. Walker ("The Little House Cookbook," 1979)
Marilyn Gould (Writer on skateboarding and "Golden Daffodils," 1985)
Betty Fraser (Illustrator: Mary Ann Hoberman's "The Llama Who Had No
Pajama")
Mary Lystad ("James the Jaguar," 1972)
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson (writer/poet/illustrator: "Turn Not Pale,
Beloved Snail," 1974)
Ellen Viereck (Painter/illustrator, "The Summer I Was Lost" by Paul
Viereck, 1965)
Arnold Dobrin (Writer/illustrator, "Scat!" 1970)
Janice May Udry (1957 Caldecott Medalist: "A Tree is Nice," with Marc
Simont)
Virginia Lee (aka Virginia L. Ewbank, Virginia Ewbank Hendricks, and
Virginia L Hendricks,"The Magic Moth," 1972)
Nan Holcomb (author of elementary stories about handicapped children;
real name, Norma McPhee)
James Lincoln Collier (1975 Newbery Honoree & National Book Award
nominee: "My Brother Sam is Dead")
Jane Gardam (UK writer & Carnegie nominee: "The Hollow Land," 1981)
Eva Hulsmann (French/German/Italian nature illustrator)
Shulamith L. Oppenheim ("The Sea King" with Jane Yolen, 2003)
Esther L. Nelson ("Dancing Games for Children of All Ages," 1973)
Sidney Offit ("The Adventures of Homer Fink," 1966)
Earle Rice Jr. (YA war history writer)
Toby Talbot ("Dear Greta Garbo," 1977)
Carolee Wells Henney ("The Cat in the Tower," 2017)
1929
Jules Feiffer (cartoonist: "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster,
1961)
Walter Lorraine (editor/illustrator: "McBroom" series by Sid Fleischman,
1960s-1980s)
Arnold Roth (cartoonist: "Grimms' Fairy Tales," 1966)
Ruth Belov Gross ("If You Grew Up With George Washington," 1982)
Hilde Heyduck-Huth (German writer/illustrator: "The Three Birds," 1966)
Edward Sorel (political cartoonist: "The Pirates of Penzance," adapted
by Ward Botsford, 1981)
Jacqueline L. Harris ("The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War
II," 1996)
Jane Wooster Scott (Illustrator & American folk art painter)
Lensey Namioka (nee Lensey Chao, Chinese-born writer: "Ties That Bind,
Ties That Break," 1999)
Christine San Jose (British-born senior editor of "Highlights" magazine)
Norma J. Livo ("Moon Cakes to Maize: Delicious World Folktales," 1999)
K.M. Peyton (1969 Carnegie Medalist: "The Edge of the Cloud")
Norman L. Macht (Sports biographer)
Peter F. Neumeyer (German-born writer: "The Annotated Charlotte's Web,"
1994)
Wendy Pfeffer ("Let's Read and Find Out" science series)
Sesyle Joslin (1959 Caldecott Honoree: "What Do You Say, Dear?" with
Maurice Sendak)
Aliki Brandenberg (aka Aliki, writer/illustrator: "A Medieval Feast,"
1983)
Elizabeth Hall ("Thunder Rolling in the Mountains," 1992, with Scott
O'Dell)
Dorothy W. Robinson (1975 Coretta Scott King Medalist: "The Legend of
Africania")
Peter R. Limburg (Science writer of "What's Behind the Word" series)
Lael Littke (YA mystery/romance/horror novelist: "Prom Dress," 1989)
Martha E. Rhynes (Biographer: "Ralph Ellison: Author of Invisible Man,"
2006)