Children's Books and Their Illustrators

About this book

Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and John Tenniel each imagined childhood differently. Gleeson White sets their work alongside other illustrators to trace the changing art of the children's book.

Originally appearing in The Studio, this illustrated survey considers prominent artists and the changing visual language of children's publishing. Reproduced drawings and decorative supplements invite comparison between humour, elegance, fantasy and storytelling technique. Together, the illustrations capture a period when children's book art was developing a critical vocabulary and a history of its own.