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“Harry the Dirty Dog,” words by Gene Zion, 1956. “She always did.” "Harry the Dirty Dog," illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, words by Gene Zion, 1956. In this book, you see her transitioning to her signature style of heavy, dark outlines-representative of the more stylized contemporary illustration of the era that’s come to be called “cartoon modern.” Graham’s earliest books were drawn with fine, delicate lines. “The Summer Snowman” is typical of the wit and invention of Graham and Zion’s collaborations. Graham won a Caldecott Honor (a runner up to the top Caldecott Medal prize for American picture books) for her first two kids books: “All Falling Down,” words by Zion, in 1951, and “The Storm Book,” words by Charlotte Zolotow, in 1952. "All Falling Down," illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, words by Gene Zion, 1951. They married in 1948-and began collaborating on kids books. There she met Gene Zion, who had arrived from the art department of CBS. Graham had studied in her native Toronto and then New York, before finding work at Conde Nast Publications. In this early book, a boy hatches a plan to save a winter snowman from melting. “The Summer Snowman,” words by Gene Zion, 1955. Here are five books to remember Graham by: "The Summer Snowman," illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, words by Gene Zion, 1955. She loved to talk about books that she read, theater, movies.” “She was a voracious reader, mostly nonfiction. She was a very serious person,” Hagen says. “I knew her books before I knew her,” says Doris Hagen, who became friends with Graham as they were neighbors in Cambridge for nearly four decades. And because marriages had changed the name she went by (she published under her maiden name, but kept her second husband’s last name even after their split), even fellow attendees of a sketch group she participated in at the Blacksmith House Art Studio near Harvard Square could miss who exactly was drawing beside them. 22 at age 94, seems to have not generally made a big deal of her accomplishments.

It could be easy to not recognize that Margaret Bloy Graham was the illustrator of “Harry The Dirty Dog” (HarperCollins Publishers), one of the most beloved children’s books of the past century.

(Courtesy) This article is more than 8 years old. "Harry the Dirty Dog," illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, words by Gene Zion, 1956.