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American writer

John Thacher Hurd (born March 6, )^[1] is an American artist and the creator of children's picture books including Mama Don't Allow and Art Dog.^[2]

Biography

Thacher Hurd was born in Burlington, Vermont,^[1] the son of children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd.

He has referred in an interview to the "wonderful aura of creativity" surrounding his father and the Vermont farm that was their home.^[3]

Margaret Wise Brown's My World is dedicated by Brown to the recently born Thacher. (The original dedication "to Hiram Hurd" was altered just before press to read "to John Thacher Hurd when he comes (he's here)".)^[4]

After attending the California College of Arts and Crafts,^[5] he turned his talents to picture books.

His first book was The Old Chair, published in

In , Hurd re-colored the re-issued edition of My World, by Margaret Wise Brown and Thacher's father Cl Thacher Hurd - Wikipedia POR