Art

In the spirit of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Patrick McDonnells ART introduces children to the imaginative world of art and the endless opportunities it holds. ART is sure to captivate the minds and warm the hearts of children and adults alike and shows the reader how a picture really can be worth a thousand words.

Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the Mutts comic strip, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. He has illustrated for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Time, Parents, and other journals, done CD covers for the Greatest Hit classical music series, and created a license plate for his home state of New Jersey. Hailed as "the next Charles Schulz," Patrick sits on the board of directors of the Humane Society of the United States, and has won numerous awards for both Mutts and his animal welfare work. He is the co-author of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman and also contributed a story to Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night, edited by Art Spiegelman and Fran+ºoise Mouly (HarperCollins, 2003).