{"id":2769,"date":"2015-03-31T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2015-03-31T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:38:52","slug":"taback-simms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/taback-simms\/","title":{"rendered":"Taback, Simms"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2770 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ph_tabck.jpg\" alt=\"Simms Taback\" width=\"140\" height=\"205\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2771 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_where.jpg\" alt=\"Where Is My Baby?\" width=\"120\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_where.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_where-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2772 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_jack.jpg\" alt=\"This Is the House That Jack Built\" width=\"120\" height=\"158\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_josph.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Had a Little Overcoat\" width=\"120\" height=\"151\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Simms Taback was born February 13, 1932. Taback grew up in New York, studying art at the High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">He worked as a graphic designer, an art director for an advertising agency, and a partner in a design firm. His grandchildren are still impressed that he designed McDonald&#8217;s first Happy Meal box!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Taback has illustrated some 35 books for children. Two have been cited for the <em>New York Times<\/em> Ten Best Illustrated list. <i>There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly<\/i> won a Caldecott Honor in 1998. J<i>oseph Had a Little Overcoat<\/i> was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">A colleague who shared a studio with him for many years described him as &#8220;a patient perfectionist who produces thousands of gorgeous character and scene sketches for a forthcoming book.&#8221; His works are included in the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota. Simms Taback died December 25, 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simms Taback was born February 13, 1932. Taback grew up in New York, studying art at the High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union. He worked as a graphic designer, an art director for an advertising agency, and a partner in a design firm. His grandchildren are still impressed that he designed McDonald&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"Taback, Simms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/taback-simms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Taback, Simms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1048],"tags":[443,432,408,1980,369,933,1979],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t","tag-caldecott-medal","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-happy-meal","tag-illustrator","tag-kerlan-collection","tag-simms-taback"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-IF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}