“The Frog Prince,” Once Upon a Time, 1921

Margaret Evans Price

1888–1973

 

Margaret Evans Price was a painter, illustrator, writer, and muralist. She was born in Chicago, but lived most of her life in the eastern United States and Canada. She became interested in art at a very early age and sold her first illustrated story to the Boston Journal in 1900. She attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Boston Academy of Fine Arts, and also studied in France. After she completed her studies, she worked as an illustrator for several magazines in New York City.

She married Irving L. Price in 1909. In 1930 her husband, together with Herman G. Fisher, founded the Fisher-Price Toy Company. Margaret became its first Art Director and designed a line of pull-toys based on characters from her children’s books.

Her books include A Visit to Santa Claus (1916), Mother Goose Book of Rhymes (1917), Once Upon a Time (1921), Enchantment Tales for Children (1926), and Goody Naughty Book (1935).

“Beauty and the Beast,” Once Upon a Time, 1921

“Little Red Riding-Hood,” Once Upon a Time, 1921

“Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, ” Once Upon a Time, 1921

Neptune, god of the sea, was angry with Ulysses

“Nausicaa and Ulysses,” Enchantment Tales for Children, 1926

Circe took an ivory wand in her hand and touched the men one by one

“Circe and Ulysses,” Enchantment Tales for Children, 1926