“Mrs. Provensen, who also wrote several picture books, worked for 40 years alongside her husband, Martin Provensen, illustrating such works as The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten and adaptations of classic literature. … They evoked the world of post-Impressionist Paris in their Caldecott Medal-winning 1983 book The Glorious Flight, about the first airplane journey over the English Channel, by French pilot Louis Blériot in 1909.”