found: Stokes, J. Wiley and the hairy man, 1970.
found: U.S. copyright file, May 30, 2008 (Byrd, Robert)
found: Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), May 30, 2008 (Robert (John) Byrd; also known as Robert James Byrd, Bobby Byrd; b. Jan. 11, 1942, Atlantic City, N.J.; writer, illustrator, educator)
found: Embracing the child, WWW, Mar. 4, 2011 (b. in Atlantic City; studied at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art; teaches Children's Book Illustration at The University of the Arts, and Moore College of Art Design in Philadelphia)
notfound: The dict. of 20th century British book illustrators, 1994;WW in Am., 1999;WW, 1998.