Petie, Haris

Haris Petie was born June 26, 1915, in Boulder Creek, CA. She was an artist and illustrator of children's books, a fashion artist, advertising artist, and designer of children's clothes. Her illustrations appear in a great many books of nonfiction published for children in the 1960s and 1970s. She also wrote and illustrated 2 books, Billions of Bugs and The Seed the Squirrel Dropped . Biographical Source: Something About the Author, Vol. 10, p. 118-119

From the guide to the Haris Petie, 1965, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])