Children's book illustrations

[gius]

I think auxt posted a whole bunch of images from Richard Scarry's books earlier in this thread The old work alongside the new & 'politically correct' versions

no more handsome pilot
pretty stewardess they say

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[vogue_addiction]

What a lovely thread is this!

 

[user500]

Zdenek Miler
'Krecik'

little mole


empic.com
citarny.cz

 

[haute femme]

Whenever I have a baby I'd love to have some of these framed at put on the wall or maybe just in my room

 

[ChrissyM]

what's the story behind the owl and the pussycat gius?

is it some sort of popular tale that i've somehow missed out on?

thanks for the pics... always nice to see a variation on a theme/idea/story and how different people interpret it with images...

just shows how words can send imaginations spinning in so many different directions

 

[gius]

yes popular nursery rhyme nonsense poem by Edward Lear
the first pen drawing there is the original, by Edward himself
owl and pussycat are lovers

here is the poem...

I[SIZE=+2]T[/SIZE]he Owl and the pvssy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely pvssy! O pvssy my love,
What a beautiful pvssy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful pvssy you are!'


IIPvssy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.


III'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.


from nonsenselit.org

 

[ChrissyM]

oh wow!

i was totally oblivious!

thanks for posting that gius...

i'm gonna go back and look at the illustrations again with a fresh perspective

 

[l'eau]

I love the illustrations of Louise Fitzhugh. She is most famous for Harriet the Spy but my absolute favorite illustrations come from Suzuki Beane.

Suzuki Beane

Miss Caroline Perfect

(images from purple-socks.webmage.com)

 

[Mary-Anne]

Gustaf Tenggren.

Einar Norelius.



John Bauer.







animationarchive.org

 

[Mary-Anne]

Gustaf Tenggren: Juan & Juanita







Kay Nielsen: East of the Sun and West of the Moon

animationarchive.org

 

[Mary-Anne]

Dulac's Hans Christian Andersen









animationarchive.org

 

[Paws]

^Thanks Mary-Anne

All those are just wonderful

 

[Esperanza]

WOW i love this thread. glad i stumbled upon it.

 

[TheLizardQueen]

does anyonr have any Quentin Blake illustrations? i've tried looking but his websit doesn't have many good pics. I LOVED his collaborations with roald dahl as a kid

 

[gius]

^Quentin Blake

Charity Sale of Designer Napkins

Over 30 UK artists and designers have submitted artworks doodled on napkins for a forthcoming exhibition in London.

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[GasolineRainbow]

peopletrible.net

flickr.com (advinter)
Illustrations of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen" by the Ukrainian artist Vladyslav Yerko. His book won awards, it's that good.

 

[ChrissyM]

gasolinerainbow please cite which flickr account that last image came from... we've made an amendment to the crediting rules..

thanks

 

[user500]

dulac's and john bauer's pictures are so wonderful! so romantic and colourful. you can look endlessly at them finding details in them. feels like you could discover them. even find birds or something sitting in the trees...

i have printed out some of them to look at it more often...

 

[GasolineRainbow]

^Sorry. I found it on Google images but after a second look, it's from Advinter's account on flickr.

 

[audreyhorne]

i just read this entire thread in one sitting, amazing job everyone!! <3 <3