Smath, Jerry

Jane Werner Watson was the original editor of the first 12 Little Golden Books that launched in 1942. She went on to write scores of Golden Books for the next several decades, including the bestselling "My Little Golden Book About God. "She died in 2004.
Jerry Smath has been a prolific illustrator of Little Golden Books, and other children's books, for decades. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.