It also was one of the earliest big, color picture books to be printed in the United States. Set in Hungary, it was one of the first picture books written in the United States to take place in a foreign country. The Petershams debuted as author-illustrators with Miki (1929), a book written and named for their son. They soon brought their talents to children’s trade publications, illustrating such books as Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories (1922), Margery Clark’s The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924), Elizabeth Miller’s Pran of Albania (1929), and Eric Kelly’s In Clean Hay (1953), among many others. Because he was right-handed and she left-handed, they could work on a picture at the same time. The Petershams began working together by illustrating children’s textbooks. He met Maud while both were employed by the International Art Service in New York. Difficulty finding work led him to take a friend’s advice and head to the United States in 1912. He changed his name to Miska Petersham because people there had trouble pronouncing his real name. Soon after graduating from the Budapest Academy of Art, he left for England. From the age of 12 he supported himself with drawing jobs. 20, 1888, in a small town near Budapest, Hungary. Miska was born Petrezselyem Mihaly on Sept. She graduated from Vassar College in 1912 and then attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts for a year. Her father was a Baptist minister, and his assignments brought the family to South Dakota and Pennsylvania for a time during her youth. They received the 1946 Caldecott Medal for The Rooster Crows.
The husband-and-wife team of Miska and Maud Petersham illustrated more than 70 books for children, many of which they also wrote.
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