Today brings news of the passing of Tasha Tudor, a prolific author and illustrator of children's books with a style -- and lifestyle -- that harkened back to 19th-century New England. Today's
New York Times obituary recalled how she raised her children in a home without electricity or running water, and dressed in clothes of a bygone era. Pictured here is her first book, published in 1938; she wrote many more and illustrated nearly 100, according to the
Times. Two of her books,
Mother Goose and
1 is One were named Caldecott Honor Books. The Vermont resident was 92.
