"Simms Taback, an award-winning children's book author and illustrator best known for his version of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" and "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat," his Caldecott Medal-winning adaptation of a Yiddish folk song, has died. He was 79.
Taback died of pancreatic cancer Dec. 25 at his home in Ventura, said his son, Jason.
In a more than five-decade career that included designing and illustrating the first McDonald's Happy Meal box in the 1970s, Taback was the illustrator and sometimes author of about 50 books for children.
His breakthrough book as an author-illustrator, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," has been described as "a tour de force in innovative book illustration and design" and was a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book."
Taback died of pancreatic cancer Dec. 25 at his home in Ventura, said his son, Jason.
In a more than five-decade career that included designing and illustrating the first McDonald's Happy Meal box in the 1970s, Taback was the illustrator and sometimes author of about 50 books for children.
His breakthrough book as an author-illustrator, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," has been described as "a tour de force in innovative book illustration and design" and was a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book."
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