Songs of Innocence (Volumes 1 & 2), by William Blake (1789, 1794), music and illustrations by Ellen Raskin, Doubleday, 1966. Paths of Poetry: Twenty-Five Poets and Their Poems, ed. The Jewish Sabbath, by Molly Cone, Crowell, 1966. We Dickinson's, by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe, Atheneum, 1965. Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, selected by Dwight MacDonald, Crowell, 1965. Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Child You'd Be Very Cold, by Ruth Krauss, Atheneum, 1962. A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas (1950) J. by Eric Mosbacher, New York: Noonday Press, 1956 The bound Man and other stories, by Ilse Aichinger, transl. Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls, edited by Claire H. Raskin also illustrated more than twenty books by other writers. The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, 1975. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), 1971. Raskin wrote four novels, all published by E. McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much, Parents, 1973 Raskin wrote and illustrated twelve picture books, published by Atheneum Books except as noted. However, she suffered from severe attacks of depression, making her family life hard. Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison at age 18 with the intention of majoring in telegraphy. Raskin died at the age of 56 on August 8, 1984, in New York City, as a result of a connective-tissue disease. In 1960 she married Dennis Flanagan, editor of Scientific American. 
In 1957, she married graphic designer Roy Kuhlman, but they soon divorced. Among other things she designed more than 1000 dust jackets for books including the first edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, the 1963 Newbery Medal winner. In New York City she worked as a commercial artist for about 15 years. Raskin was an accomplished graphic artist. She was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a major in fine art. Raskin was born in Milwaukee and grew up during the Great Depression.
In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily-U.S. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975. 1965, second husband)Įllen Raskin (Ma– August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)ĭennis Flanagan (m.
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