He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters.

Over a lifespan that totaled nearly a century William Steig never lost the wide-eyed insouciance of the Bronx street kid. “I think I feel a little differently than other people do,” the artist once ...

A pair of wooden puppets, one lean and yellow, the other pink and plump, contemplate existential questions in Yellow & Pink (1984) by William Steig. (""I can't help ...

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Hats are out. Except for baseball caps and Kangol caps, that is. But when William Steig, a Caldecott Medalist and famed New Yorker cartoonist, was 8 years old in 1916, everybody wore them. Hence the ...

A mouse dentist who treats a fox’s toothache, a pig who outwits a fox with the help of a talking bone, and a girl who braves a snowstorm to deliver a gown to a duchess are among the memorable William ...

William Steig, who has died aged 95, was dubbed the "King of Cartoons" by Newsweek in 1995; he later became better known as the author of Shrek!, a children's story about a green woodland monster ...