Treating the words as artfully as the pictures…on the same page! Thank you, Wanda Gag, for your picture book legacy, 90 years ago this year!

Decades before "Cat in the Hat," another children’s book surprised readers with its inventiveness. "Millions of Cats," by Minnesota's Wanda Gag, combined illustration and text on the same page in a way people hadn't seen before. KFAI's Emily Bright reports.(Photo: Wanda Gag and her cat, Snoopy. Photo courtesy of Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries.)

Emily K. Bright