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- ↑ Caldecott Award Winners
- ↑ "SMFA at Tufts | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University". smfa.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ↑ Illustrating Children's Books course catalog entry at MassArt
