His many awards include a Caldecott Honor. Ted and his wife Betsy, also an illustrator, live in Brooklyn, New York with their two cats, Slick and Chopper, but they travel all over the world to work on children's books. Gorilla Walk is a collaboration based on their expedition to the mountain gorillas in Uganda. Travels of a Children's Book Illustrator . Telegram , June 19, 1992.
Author evokes family secrets, bonds.