Mayer, Mercer
Mayer, Mercer (1943– ),American author and illustrator of children's books. His father was in the navy, and Mayer spent his childhood in the South, and his adolescence in Hawaii. Rackham, Tenniel, Beardsley and Ford were his favourite illustrators, and he studied at the Hawaii Academy of Arts and the Art Students' League in New York. He worked with an advertising agency before devoting himself full‐time to his art.
Mayer has received numerous awards for his more than 100 books that humorously represent a child's world from a child's perspective. He developed the wordless children's picture book with A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog (1967), which led to a five‐book series. Feeling more comfortable with words, he added text to plots with the classic There's a Nightmare in my Closet (1968; UK, There's a Nightmare in my Cupboard,...
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