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Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books.
A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in '' Harper's Weekly'', ''
Peter Newell's Books
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''The Rocket Book''
From the Collections at the Library of Congress * * Peter Newell Family Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. * Peter Newell Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1862 births 1924 deaths American cartoonists American children's writers People from McDonough County, Illinois American children's book illustrators {{US-comics-creator-stub
Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books.
A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in '' Harper's Weekly'', ''Harper's Bazaar
''Harper's Bazaar'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly ''Harper's Bazar''. ''Harper's Bazaar'' is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the st ...
'', '' Scribner's Magazine'', '' The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Judge
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'', and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as ''Topsys and Turvys'' (1893), a collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up; ''The Hole Book'' (1908), which had a literal hole at the center of each page to indicate the path of a bullet; and ''The Slant Book'' (1910), which took the shape of a rhomboid and told the story of a baby carriage careening down a hill.Dennis Wepman "Newell, Peter" ''American National Biography Online''. February 2000. Retrieved on July 6, 2009.
Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...
, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll. He also created a comic strip serial, ''The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead'', which debuted in the ''New York Herald
The ''New York Herald'' was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924. At that point it was acquired by its smaller rival the ''New-York Tribune'' to form the '' New York Herald Tribune''.
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'' in 1905. He died in Little Neck, New York in 1924.
Newell's great-granddaughter, Laura Lydecker, was also an artist and children's book illustrator. Lydecker illustrated editions of Wind in the Willows and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse.
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External links
* * *Peter Newell's Books
at nonsenselit.org
''The Rocket Book''
From the Collections at the Library of Congress * * Peter Newell Family Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. * Peter Newell Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1862 births 1924 deaths American cartoonists American children's writers People from McDonough County, Illinois American children's book illustrators {{US-comics-creator-stub