What We Can Learn From The Dutch Resistance

An Interview with Maria van Lieshout

I’ve been a fan of Maria van Lieshout’s illustrations almost as long as I’ve been making picture books. Years ago, she told me that she was researching a book about artistic resistance in Nazi-occupied Holland, where more than 75 percent of the Jewish population was murdered. Even then, I knew she was going to make something astonishing. I was right. He…