Alice Provensen author page

Alice Provensen biography

Alice Provensen (1918–2018) was a children’s author and illustrator. She worked with Martin Provensen on more than fifty books for children, including Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm and Little Golden Books such as The Color Kittens and Katie the Kitten.

Her books as author include The Golden Mother Goose and The Glorious Flight. Her illustration work includes Katie the Kitten, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses, The Fuzzy Duckling and The Color Kittens.

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 was by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen and was published in 1983. The book recounts Louis Blériot’s attempt to build a flying machine and cross the English Channel.

Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen won the Caldecott Medal for The Glorious Flight in 1984. Alice Provensen received a Caldecott Honor in 1982 for illustrating A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, written by Nancy Willard.

The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales is a collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales edited and illustrated by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen. The collection includes “Beauty and the Beast” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” and was republished in hardcover on 16 November 2021.