ABOUT RUTH KRAUSS
An American children's author and poet, she is best known for her 1945 work The Carrot Seed. Her other notable works include The Happy Egg, Somebody Spilled the Sky, and The Cantilever Rainbow.
She studied at the Parson School of Design in New York City. She published her first illustrated work, A Good Man and His Good Wife, in 1944.
She joined the Writers' Laboratory at New York's Bank Street College of Education in the 1940s.
She married Crockett Johnson, a fellow children's book author, in 1941.
Her contributions to children's literature were lauded by fellow author Maurice Sendak .
