Peggy Rathmann

Peggy Rathmann is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She is best known for Good Night, Gorilla, a wordless bedtime story about a zoo that she illustrated herself, and for Officer Buckle and Gloria, which won the Caldecott Medal. Her other picture books include Ruby the Copycat and The Day the Babies Crawled Away.