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Today Tasha Tudor is featured in over 20 million videos posted on TikTok and
she's a regular on Instagram. Learn more about this famous children's book
author-illustrator and her current connection to the cottagecore movement
during this discussion with Tasha Tudor scholar Jeanette Chandler Knazek. She
will share examples of Mrs. Tudor's artistry and their interweaving with the
late artist's fascinating lifestyle.

This workshop is conducted in a 'lunch & learn' format. Please feel free to bring your lunch to enjoy during the presentation.

FREE to attend!

Before Tasha Tudor became an icon for the cottagecore aesthetic...

Before photographic books detailed her great love of traditional rural living,
gardening, heirloom crafts, antiques and even dolls...

Tasha Tudor was celebrated around the world as a beloved author and
illustrator of children's books.

For that accomplishment, she was awarded the Regina Medal in 1971 for her
"continued, distinguished contribution to children's literature" long before
Dr. Suess, Chris Van Allsburg, Eric Carle, Jerry Pinkney, Judy Blume and Jan
Brett received the honor!

During the hour-long presentation, we'll explore Tasha Tudor's interesting
life along with her original writings and attractive artwork published over a
span of 65 years.

Among the more than one hundred books featuring her illustrations are these
classics:

The Secret Garden
Mother Goose
The Wind in the Willows
A Child's Garden of Verses (in 1947 and again in 1981)
Little Women
The Night Before Christmas (five different versions!)

Tasha Tudor also had two Caldecott Honors books (Mother Goose and her charming
counting book, 1 is One) and we will talk about both of them, too.

Tasha enjoyed her farm animals and the family pets so much that she wrote
humorous stories about some of them. We will learn more about the antics of
Tasha's goose named Alexander, the young pig Dorcas Porkus, Biggity the
mischievous rooster, Mr. Stubbs the cat, Mrs. Increase Rabbit, and Linsey
Woolsey the lamb.

Tasha Tudor carefully observed the changing seasons in much of her artwork and
she also created special ways of celebrating holidays around the year. We will
see what Tasha especially liked to do beginning in the springtime, in summer
and all the way to harvest time---including floating a lighted birthday cake
down a quiet stretch of a river after dark!

Tasha's favorite dog breed, the Pembroke Welsh corgi, is featured in her
delightful fantasy book titled Corgiville Fair. We will also discuss the other
two books in the Corgiville trilogy: The Great Corgiville Kidnapping and
Corgiville Christmas.

Tasha Tudor spent almost 93 years on Earth (from 1915 to 2008) and she had a
very full, productive life. As Tasha herself would say, it will be "great fun"
to learn more about her way of living and to enjoy her beautiful artwork
together.