In the early part of the last century, my grandmother bought a book of Norwegian fairytales for my older cousins (I wasn’t born yet). When those cousins moved with their family to California, they left the collection of fairytales with my grandmother, and as she lived right next door to me as I was growing up, I became the next primary reader of the book. There are more famous editions of these wonderful tales, but this has always been my favorite, in part because of the illustrations. Violet Moore Higgins was the illustrator. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s and then moved to New York to become primarily an illustrator of children’s books. She died in 1963. Some years ago, I wrote the song "Man of No Dreams" with many of Violet Moore Higgins's images in my head.