Ruth Lercher Bornstein is an American author and illustrator of children's and

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books, and painter.

Biography

Ruth Lercher Bornstein grew up in

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and graduated from the

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in 1948 with a degree in Art Education, after which she taught art for children at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York. She later attended the

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before moving with her husband to Los Angeles. Her first book ''Indian Bunny'', reissued as ''Brave Bunny'', was published in 1973.

Books

* ''Indian Bunny'', Golden Gate Junior Books, 1973; reissued as ''Brave Bunny'', Gibbs Smith, 2003. * ''Little Gorilla'',

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, 1976. * ''The Dream of the Little Elephant'', Seabury Press/Clarion, 1977 * ''Jim'', Seabury Press/Clarion, 1978 * ''The Dancing Man'', Seabury Press/Clarion, 1978 * ''I'll Draw a Meadow'', Harper & Row, 1979 * ''Of Course a Goat'', Harper & Row, 1980 * ''The Seedling Child'',

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, 1987 * ''A Beautiful Seashell'', Harper & Row, 1990 * ''Rabbit's Good News'',

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/Clarion, 1995 * ''That's How It Is When We Draw'', Houghton Mifflin/Clarion, 1997 * ''Butterflies and Lizards, Beryl and Me'', Cavendish Square Publishing, 2002 * ''The Summer Everything Changed'', Wellstone Press, 2012

External links

Official website
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