Betsy Reilly Lewin (born May 12, 1937) is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduation, she began designing greeting cards. She began writing and illustrating stories for children's magazines and eventually children's books. She is married to children's book illustrator Ted Lewin and with him has co-written and illustrated several books about their travels to remote places, including Uganda in Gorilla Walk and Mongolia in Horse Song,[1] as well as How to Babysit a Leopard: and Other True Stories from Our Travels Across Six Continents (Roaring Brook Press, 2015). She is arguably best known for the Caldecott Honor Book Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type.

Betsy Lewin
Lewin at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Lewin at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born (1937-05-12) May 12, 1937 (age 87)
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationIllustrator, writer
Alma materPratt Institute
GenreChildren's picture books, travel
SpouseTed Lewin
Website
betsylewin.com

Books illustrated

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Exhibits

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Here is a partial list of recent exhibits featuring Betsy's works:

  • Pratt Institute Libraries

Exhibition: "Around the World with Ted and Betsy Lewin" October 30 - December 2, 2008

  • Society of Illustrators: main floor gallery

Exhibition: "Adventures With Ted and Betsy" June 1 through June 11, 2005

  • Massachusetts Audubon Center, Canton, MA.

Exhibition: "NCCIL Traveling Show"Feb. 12 through May 1, 2005

  • Brooklyn Public Library, New York

Exhibition: "Ted and Betsy Lewin's World of Picture Books" March 4–30, 2004

  • Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York

Exhibition: "Travels with Ted and Betsy Lewin" Featured 78 original illustrations from many of their books.

  • National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (NCCIL)

Exhibition: "Adventures with Ted and Betsy", Abilene, TX, Watershouse, Germantown, MD, Wichita Falls, TX

  • Society of Illustrators, Original Art 2001 Silver Medalist
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
  • University of Southern Missouri
  • Society of Illustrators, Women Illustrators of the Century

References

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  1. ^ "Biography" Archived 2009-11-20 at the Wayback Machine. BetsyLewin.com. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
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