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Jim Burke, illustrator
Semadar Megged, art director
Philomel Books, client

In the picture book Naming Liberty, Jane Yolen (author) and Jim Burke weave together two stories. Young Gitl in Russia, leaving for faraway America, wonders what her new name will be when she arrives, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi dreaming of creating and delivering a monument for America to honor freedom. Here, Liberty's Nod (oil on board) depicts the head being moved from the workshop to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878.

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