Ruth Lercher Bornstein

Ruth Lercher Bornstein is an American author and illustrator of children's and young adult books, and painter.

Biography

Ruth Janet Lercher grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948 with a degree in Art Education, after which she taught art for children at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York. She later attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before moving with her husband, Harry Bornstein, to Los Angeles. Her first book Indian Bunny, reissued as Brave Bunny, was published in 1973.

Books Indian Bunny, Golden Gate Junior Books, 1973; reissued as Brave Bunny, Gibbs Smith, 2003. Little Gorilla, Seabury Press/Clarion Books, 1976. The Dream of the Little Elephant, Seabury Press/Clarion, 1977 Jim, Seabury Press/Clarion, 1978 The Dancing Man, Seabury Press/Clarion, 1978 I'll Draw a Meadow, Harper & Row, 1979 Of Course a Goat, Harper & Row, 1980 The Seedling Child, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987 A Beautiful Seashell, Harper & Row, 1990 Rabbit's Good News, Houghton Mifflin/Clarion, 1995 That's How It Is When We Draw, Houghton Mifflin/Clarion, 1997 Butterflies and Lizards, Beryl and Me, Cavendish Square Publishing, 2002 The Summer Everything Changed, Wellstone Press, 2012