![]() ![]() With just a few quick chalk strokes, he rendered the rabbits I knew from his books. I do remember his effortlessly drawing large rabbits on the blackboard. I do not remember what Garth Williams discussed with us. I, for one, would not have been as excited had the authors visited our class. We were all enamored of “Charlotte’s Web,” another work of Garth’s, filled with memories of our teachers and parents reading it to us. Girls in my class were likely to have held the same penchant for Williams’ authentic renderings in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House On The Prairie” series. I had carefully “read” every pen and ink drawing in “Stuart Little.” ![]() As a reading-challenged youth I spent more time scanning the illustrations than stumbling through the text. White’s “Stuart Little,” included Williams’ drawings. I knew nothing about book illustrators and might not have been particularly impressed had not my favorite book, E.B. Perhaps he volunteered or our teacher corralled him for an hour with us. Lucky for us, Williams’ daughter Estyn was a classmate. ![]() There was no “bring your father to school” day. Aspen Elementary occasionally held school-wide assemblies, many were President Eisenhower’s National Defense Education Act science programs, but classroom visitors were rare. One of my favorite grade-school memories is the day children’s illustrator Garth Williams visited our classroom. Aspen Historical SocietyGarth Williams' promotional poster for Aspen Highlands used rabbits similar to many of his book illustrations. ![]()
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