The exhibition, From The New Yorker to Shrek,will be on view at the Jewish Museum until March 16, 2008. William Steig (1903-2003) began selling illustrations to the New Yorker as early has 1930. He is also an acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator. In 1970 he won the Caldecott medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. But I remember him for his Dr. de Soto series, which earned him a Newbery Honor in 1982.



