Elmer Hader
7 September 1889 – 7 September 1973
Berta Hoerner Hader (August 1, 1890 – February 6, 1976) and Elmer Stanley Hader (September 7, 1889 – September 7, 1973) were an American couple who jointly illustrated more than 70 children's books, about half of which they also wrote. They won the annual Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow (1948), recognizing the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". They received the Caldecott Honor Book Award for Cock-a-doodle-doo in 1940 and The Mighty Hunter in 1944.
Books
- Folk and fairy tales1935
- The Windy hill
- Chicken Little and Half Little Chick
- Snow in the city
- Humpty Dumpty and other Mother Goose rhymes
- Picture book of Mother Goose
- The story of the three bears
- Big Snow and Other Stories
- Little Tootsies Paper Dolls
- The story of Hansel and Gretel
- The visit of Saint Nicholas
- The Big Snow
- The Little Red Hen
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