Alice Bolam Preston

Preston lived in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. She is best known for illustrating children's books in the 1910s and 1920s, primarily for Houghton Mifflin. She had a particular affinity for fairy illustrations. With crisp lines and rich colors, her work is stylistically akin to that of Jessie Willcox Smith or Charles Robinson.^[1]

Preston also created illustrations and covers for magazines such as Vogue and House Beautiful.

In 2014–2015, the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts held a retrospective exhibition of her work.^[1]

• Sniffy, Snappy, and Velvet Pay by Ruth O. Dyer (1918)
• Stories from a Mouse Hole by Ruth O. Dyer (1919)
• Seven Peas in the Pod by Margery Bailey (1920)
• Adventures in Mother Goose Land by Edward Gower (1920)
• The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady (1920)
• Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Eliza Orne White (1921)
• The Little Man with One Shoe by Margery Bailey (1921)
• Humpty Dumpty House by Ethel Calvert Phillips (1924)
• The Valley of Color Days by Helen B. Sandwell (1924)
• Tony by Eliza Orne White (1924)
• Whistle for Good Fortune by Margery Bailey (1940)