Juliet Kepes

Juliet Kepes (née Appleby; 1919–1999) was a British illustrator, painter and sculptor.

Kepes studied at Brighton School in the 1930s, and met her future husband, György Kepes in Shaftesbury Avenue in 1936.^[1] When in 1937, György was offered a teaching position at the New Bauhaus in Chicago – Juliet went with him to study, while he taught.^[1] In later life, they moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts – again for György's work.^[1]

In the early 1950s, Kepes began writing and illustrating children's book. Her first work was published in 1952 and was titled Five Little Monkeys. The work was good enough to win a Caldecott Medal honour in 1953, missing out on the medal to The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward.^[2]

• Five Little Monkeys (1952) - author and illustrator^[1]
• Laughing Time (1953) – illustrator^[1]
• The Seven Remarkable Bears (1954) – illustrator^[1]
• Beasts from a Brush (1955) – author and illustrator^[1]
• Boy Blue’s Book of Beasts (1957) – illustrator^[1]
• Frogs Merry (1961) – author and illustrator^[1]
• Five Little Monkey Business (1965) - author and illustrator^[1]