William Steig is one. His books are silly and sweet, as books for children should be, but they are also unsettling, strange, and sometimes scary. Beauty and dread coexist; there is whimsy ...

William Steig, who over seven decades created many of New Yorker magazine’s best covers and cartoons and also wrote some of the most beloved of children’s books, including “Shrek” and the ...

The drawing was by Carl Rose and the caption by E.B. White. (Published 10/10/03) William Steig, 95, whose cartoons and children's books showing put-upon men, snide children and lonely ogres gave ...

She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. William Steig’s original 1990 picture book Shrek! has a few elements that Shrek ...

Doctor De Soto, The Amazing Bone, and Brave Irene are three of 14 Steig titles that Farrar, Straus and Giroux recently released in e-book editions, making the author’s work available in this ...

William Steig, who has died aged 95 ... He went on to sell more than two million books. Steig preferred writing to illustrating, and described his drawings as "doodles". "My best work," he ...

When he sketched out the outsize stocky body of Shrek, in his book of the same title, the late William Steig never imagined his charming tale about a benign, swamp-dwelling ogre would become a ...