Betsy Lewin

Betsy Lewin
Lewin at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Lewin at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born (1937-05-12) May 12, 1937 (age 87)
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationIllustrator, writer
Alma materPratt Institute
GenreChildren's picture books, travel
SpouseTed Lewin
Website
betsylewin.com

Betsy Reilly Lewin (born May 12, 1937) is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduation, she began designing greeting cards. She began writing and illustrating stories for children's magazines and eventually children's books. She is married to children's book illustrator Ted Lewin and with him has co-written and illustrated several books about their travels to remote places, including Uganda in Gorilla Walk and Mongolia in Horse Song,[1] as well as How to Babysit a Leopard: and Other True Stories from Our Travels Across Six Continents (Roaring Brook Press, 2015). She is arguably best known for the Caldecott Honor Book Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type.

  1. ^ "Biography" Archived 2009-11-20 at the Wayback Machine. BetsyLewin.com. Retrieved September 21, 2013.