James Stevenson

His books, like What's Under My Bed, have been featured on the Reading Rainbow television series.

• Name — James Stevenson • Born — 11 July 1929 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, U.S. • Died — 17 February 2017 • Place of death — Cos Cob, Connecticut, U.S. • Education — Yale University Hackley School • Employer — The New Yorker (1956–2017) • Occupation — Cartoonist, illustrator, writer • Spouse — Josephine Merck (1993–2017) Jane Walker • Children — Charles, Sucie, James, Walker, Harvey, Peter, Jane, Edwina, Emily • Parents — Harvey Stevenson Winifred (Worcester) Stevenson

James Stevenson was born in New York City and educated at Yale University, where he was the feature editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He contributed his first cartoon to The New Yorker on March 10, 1956. James Stevenson wrote and illustrated his first book Walker, the Witch, and the Striped Flying Saucer in 1969. He had previously illustrated the children's book If I Owned a Candy Factory (1968) written by his then eight-year-old son, James Walker Stevenson.

A series of tales told by a grandfather character to his grandchildren. Usually containing outrageous and unbelievable tales: • Could Be Worse! (1977) • That Terrible Halloween Night (1980) • We Can't Sleep (1982) • The Great Big Especially Beautiful Easter Egg (1983) • Grandpa's Great City Tour: An Alphabet Book (1982) • What's Under My Bed? (1983) • Worse Than Willy (1984) • That Dreadful Day (1985) • There's Nothing to Do! (1986) • No Friends (1986) • Will You Please Feed Our Cat? (1987) • We Hate Rain! (1988) • Grandpa's Too-Good Garden (1989) • Brrr (1991) • That's Exactly the Way It Wasn't (1991)

Featuring Emma, a good witch, and her nemeses Dolores and Lavinia: • Yuck! (1984) • Emma (1985) • Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving • Happy Valentine's Day, Emma! (1987) • Un-Happy New Year, Emma! • Emma at the Beach (1990)

Featuring a crotchety old man: • The Worst Person in the World (1978) • The Worst Person in the World at Crab Beach (1988) • The Worst Person's Christmas (1991) • Worse than the Worst (1994) • The Worst Goes South (1995)

These books feature the alligator Mr. Frimdimpny who has rules about no laughing: • Don't Make Me Laugh (1999) • No Laughing, No Smiling, No Giggling (2004)

• The Mud Flat Olympics (1994) • Yard Sale (1996) • Heat Wave at Mud Flat (1997) • The Mud Flat Mystery (1997) • Mud Flat April Fool (1998) • Mud Flat Spring (1999) • Christmas at Mud Flat (2000) • Flying Feet: A Mud Flat Story (2004)

A series of books illustrated in a softer watercolor style: • When I Was Nine • Higher on the Door (1987) • July • Don't You Know There's a War On? • Fun No Fun (1994) • I Had a Lot of Wishes (1995) • I Meant to Tell You (1996) • Lost and Found New York: Oddballs, Heroes, Heartbreakers, Scoundrels, Thugs, Mayors, and Mysteries (2007)

• The Bones in the Cliff • The Unprotected Witness

Collections of James Stevenson's poetry, illustrated by himself. • Candy Corn • Popcorn • Cornflakes • Sweet Corn • Corn Chowder • Corn-Fed • Just Around the CORNer

• Do Yourself a Favor, Kid (1962) • The Summer Houses (1963) • Sometimes, But Not Always (1967) • Something Marvelous Is About to Happen (1971) • Cool Jack and the Beanstalk (1976) • Uptown Local, Downtown Express (1983)

All illustrated by James Stevenson: • Grandaddy's Place (1987) • Grandaddy and Janetta (1993) • Grandaddy's Stars (1995) • Grandaddy and Janetta Together: The Three Stories in One Book (2001) (anthology that collects the three previous Grandaddy books)

James Stevenson is recorded as writer, cartoonist and illustrator.

• The McLandress Dimension (1968) by John Kenneth Galbraith • If I Owned a Candy Factory (1968) by James Walker Stevenson (James Stevenson's son) • "Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day" by Donald J. Sobol • Tony's Hard Work Day (1972) by Alan Arkin • Cully Cully and the Bear (1983) by Wilson Gage • I Know a Lady (1984) by Charlotte Zolotow • I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! (1987) by Dr. Seuss • Percy and the Five Houses by Else Holmelund Minarik • Loop the Loop (1992) by Barbara Dugan • The Royal Nap (1995) by Charles C. Black • Rocks in His Head (2001) by Carol Otis Hurst • Happily Ever After (2001) by Anna Quindlen

The following books by Judy Blume feature cover artwork and inner illustrations by James Stevenson: • Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One (August 28, 2007) • Cool Zone! with the Pain and the Great One (May 13, 2008) • Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One (August 12, 2008) • Friend or Fiend? with the Pain and the Great One (May 12, 2009)

James Stevenson illustrated three of Janet Schulman's Jack the Bum series: • Jack the Bum and the Halloween Handout (1977) • Jack the Bum and the Haunted House (1977) • Jack the Bum and the UFO (1978)

James Stevenson illustrated a few of Helen V. Griffith's books: • Georgia Music (1986)

The following books of children's poetry by Jack Prelutsky are illustrated by James Stevenson: • The Baby Ugs are Hatching (1982) • The New Kid on the Block (1984) • Something BIG Has Been Here (1990) • A Pizza the Size of the Sun (1996) • It's Raining Pigs and Noodles (2000) • My Dog May Be a Genius (2008)

• Sorry, Lady. This Beach Is Private! (1963) • Let's Boogie! (1978)