Sheilah Beckett

Sheilah Beckett was an American illustrator, known for her work on the Little Golden Books series. She illustrated more than 70 classic fairy-tale titles for Little Golden Books, among them The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Snow White and Rose Red. She also illustrated several contemporary volumes of poetry, and a variety of 18th and 19th century adult works, including Lowell Baird's 1959 translation of Candide and a 1940 adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. At the time of her death, Beckett resided and worked in Ossining, New York. Her final works done at the age of 99 were on the computer. Becket lived to be 100 years old.

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