A pair of wooden puppets, one lean and yellow, the other pink and plump, contemplate existential questions in Yellow & Pink (1984) by William Steig. (""I can't help ...

William Steig, the prolific illustrator known for writing best-selling children's books, including "Shrek", is dead. His publicist says Steig died of natural causes at his Boston home Friday. He was ...

William Steig's MUSE HAS ALways been the wolf at the door. As a young man growing up in the Bronx, N.Y., his dream of running away to sea and beach-combing in Hawaii was rudely interrupted by the ...

William Steig, whose insouciant cartoons of street-tough kids and squiggly drawings of satyrs, damsels, dogs and drunks delighted and challenged readers of The New Yorker for more than six decades, ...

Jeanne Steig, Author, illus. by William Steig. HarperCollins/Cotler $17.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-028405-3 Kudos to the Steigs (A Handful of Beans), who employ colloquial prose, agile rhymes and art ...