#English Children's Book Illustrators

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GRAHAM OAKLEY (1929-Died December 19th 2022,at 93).Briths children’s book writer and illustrator,best known for his beautifully illustrated Church Mice series of books,about the tales of a protective ginger cat and a hoard of friendly mice,all living in a village church.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Oakley

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William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), ''Peacock Pie'' by Walter de la Mare, 1941 Source

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The Princess saves the White Fox, from The Comb and the Collar for Andrew Lang's The Olive Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1907)

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CAW! CAW! Or the Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring Time by R.M. (London: Grant & Griffith, 1848) Illustrated by J.B.

A rather sad tale, told in rhyme, of a group of crows who lose some of their family members due to a farmer who decides to rid himself of the birds. The title page of the book only gives the author's initials as R. M., and the illustrator as J.B. We've little information on the author, but the illustrations are most likely the work of the Scottish artist Jemima Blackburn (1823-1909). Jemima, also known as Mrs Hugh Blackburn, was a friend of the Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer who was known for his paintings of animals and who admired Blackburn's talents. She became particularly known for her bird illustrations and in the 1860s published Birds Drawn from Nature which received much praise. Her work was said to be second only to Thomas Bewick's (1753-1828) engravings in A History of British Birds, published in two volumes in 1797 and 1804. — Public Domain Review

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A Rabbit’s Tea Party

.c. 1892-93

Artist : Beatrix Potter

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Where did all those farmyard animal "The cow says Moo!" type of book come from? They came from this:

The Orbis Sensualium Pictus (the Illustrated Works of the Senses) by John Comenius, 1658 --> the first educational picture book for children.

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~ Millicent Etheldreda Gray, illustrations for Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Q is for Quaker, page for An Alphabet • William Nicholson, illustrator (British/English, 1872-1949 ) • William Heinemann, London, publisher • 1898 (first edition) • Lithographs of hand-coloured woodcuts

There were three issues of the first edition of William Nicholson's classic alphabet. The deluxe issue had "E is for Executioner" and "T is for Toper" but these were deemed improper for a wider audience and the two other issues (this one and the library issue) had "E is for Earl" and "T is for Trumpeter" instead. ~ Wikipedia

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The first pages of a children's book I wrote and illustrated, The Fog Folk.

It's about curiosity (or imagination, depending on how you interpret it). The illustrations are designed around cut-out holes through which the reader can peek into the next spread.

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tiny Beatrix Potter collection 🐇

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Yi Ma (2008) written and illustrated by Mao Xiao

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Illustrations from Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book

Snegorotchka / The Buried Moon / White Caroline and Black Caroline / The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi / The Hind of The Wood / Ivan and the Chestnut Horse / The Blue Bird / The Friar and the Boy

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Florence Mary Anderson (1893-1972), ''Blackie's Children Annual'', 1920

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Illustration from Lullaby-Land by Charles Robinson (1898)

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A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894. (New York: Scribner, [1905]) Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, 1863-1935.

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Däumerlings Wanderschaft

1944

Artist : Erika Meier-Albert