Rumer Godden (1907-1998) grew up in India, where her father ran a steamship company. She wrote more than sixty books for adults and young adults, several of which, including An Episode of Sparrows, and The Mousewife have been published in The New York Review Childrens Collection. n Adrienne Adams (1906-2002) was a childrens book illustrator who won two Caldecott Honors (for Alice E. Goudeys Houses from the Sun in 1959 and The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up in 1961) and the Rutgers Award for her contribution to childrens literature. She illustrated more than thirty books, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.n