Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Masha, a Mystery Illustrator of Childrens Books in the '40s

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Masha (Maria Simchow Stern) illustrated the very first Little Golden Book, Three Little Kittens in 1942. That is some claim to fame, however...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Dog Illustrators Capture the Canine Spirit

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Small children, horses, dogs -- can't resist vintage books with illustrations of these. Today, the subject is dogs. Many children’s book...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Marguerite de Angeli’s Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes – Among the Best

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Marguerite de Angeli, (1889-1987) if not a Renaissance women, she was certainly multi-talented. Marguerite de Angeli’s Book of Nursery and...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Holling C. Holling -- Colourful Historic Fiction

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Holling Clancy Holling (1900 -1973), a prolific children’s book writer and illustrator, combined large, colorful, full-page illustrations ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Many Illustrators of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

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I don't know how many different artists have illustrated a version of Black Beauty since it was first published in 1877. It may be the c...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Bessie Pease Gutmann -- Golden Age of Illustration

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Bessie Pease Gutmannn was one of the women illustrators from what is considered the Golden Age of Illustration late 1800s to early 1900s. ...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Brian Froud and His Faeries

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British illustrator Brian Froud is likely the most highly acclaimed of current fantasy illustrators. Born in 1947, Froud says he became inte...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Early Illustrators of a Child's Garden of Verses

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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the most illustrated children's books with more than 100 versions. S...
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