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book illustrations - some favorites

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aidan
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 03:30 am
@aidan,
I also really like Jesse Wilcox Smith's illustrations.

I have Robert Louis Stevensons' A Child's Garden of Verses illustrated by her.
She also did a lot of the Little Golden Books.
I'm sure this is where I first saw her illustrations as those were my first reading experiences.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k46/aidan_010/jessie-willcox-smith-flowers.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k46/aidan_010/Jessie_Willcox_Smith.jpg
saab
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 03:58 am
@aidan,
Tenggren took over illustrating "bland tomtar och troll" after John Bauer passed away.
Bland tomtar och troll came out every year around Christmastime. Every year another cover and new stories.

http://www.handelshuset.se/images/tomtar.jpg
http://www.barnbokhandeln.com/4709-4432-large/bland-tomtar-och-troll-ulf-starks-samlade-sagor.jpg
http://cdon.se/media-dynamic/images/product/00/04/18/81/38/3/det-basta-ur-bland-tomtar-och-troll.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 04:41 am
@panzade,
hmm, wiki says McCloskey wrote and illustrated both books, in fact, Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates.

always loved Tove Jansson and the Moomins
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Moomin_kuva.JPG
The Moomins, comic book cover by Tove Jansson.
From left to right, Sniff, Snufkin, Moominpappa, Moominmamma, Moomintroll (Moomin), Mymble, Groke, Snork Maiden and Hattifatteners.
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djjd62
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 04:44 am
Cartoonist Gahan Wilson illustrated the entire Matthew Looney series
http://stuartngbooks.com/images/detailed/11/wilson_matt_looney_space.jpg
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edgarblythe
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 04:51 am
I started a search for Dr Dolittle illustrations, but gave it up. The official site is under construction, but has a page for the pics.
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edgarblythe
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 04:52 am
I have to get ready to go to work now, but I want first to mention Beatrix Potter and the original Uncle Wiggly.
djjd62
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 04:57 am
@edgarblythe,
the potter books had great illustrations

here's an oddity and childhood fave from of all folks C.S. Forester

http://www.michaelsbooks.com/blog/images/Poo-poo_Dragon-2.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 05:02 am
@edgarblythe,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Peter_Rabbit_first_edition_1902a.jpg/426px-Peter_Rabbit_first_edition_1902a.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/The_Tale_of_Jemima_Puddle-Duck_cover.jpg/438px-The_Tale_of_Jemima_Puddle-Duck_cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/The_Tale_of_the_Flopsy_Bunnies_cover.jpg/451px-The_Tale_of_the_Flopsy_Bunnies_cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/The_Tale_of_Squirrel_Nutkin_cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Squireel_Nutkin_2.jpeg/518px-Squireel_Nutkin_2.jpeg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/Squirrel_Nutkin_Mr_Brown.jpg/525px-Squirrel_Nutkin_Mr_Brown.jpg
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saab
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 06:42 am
There is a Swedish author and illustrater Elsa Beskow.
She wrote some very polular books amongst others a serie about "Aunt Green, Aunt Brown, Aunt Lilac and Oncle Blue and the two orphans Peter and Lotta"


http://www.webtrotter.se/ilsefin/images/diverse/tantbrun.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XUOhqO3dOXI/SU1JWdsYbuI/AAAAAAAACOc/2jaH5fBC7GE/s400/tanterna.JPG

http://lifeandtimesofvictoria.webblogg.se/images/2009/blomsteer-tant_49031833.jpg
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jespah
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:10 am
Daniel Manus Pinkwater:
http://www.alaska.net/~royce/JPEGs/fmfs.jpg
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Setanta
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:15 am
@wandeljw,
Ironically, Doyle was initially dissatisfied with Sidney Paget. He had thought that Paget's brother Walter Paget would be given the commission to illustrate the stories, but the editors of The Strand mistakenly sent the offer to Sidney. Of course, today, our image of Sherlock Holmes is formed by Sidney's illustrations.
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Setanta
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:25 am
@sozobe,
Maybe you'll recall that we did a thread on this very subject years ago. I love Rackham's illustrations, and i also always loved the work of Maxfield Parrish. We had The Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (a re-telling of Greek mythology expressly written for American children), and our copy was illustrated by Parrish.

http://wpcontent.answcdn.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Cadmus_teeth.jpg/260px-Cadmus_teeth.jpg

Cadmus sewing the dragons teeth

http://spiritoftheages.com/Parrish%20-%20%27%27A%20Wonder%20Book%20and%20Tanglewood%20Tales%27%27%20%28Cover%29.jpg

Parrish' famous cover illustration

http://maxfieldparrish.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/pandora.jpg

Pandora
Setanta
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:31 am
@edgarblythe,
Beatrix Potter wanted to go to university to study mycology, but her father wouldn't hear of it. When she inherited, she was quite well off, and although she never did attend university, her illustrations of mushrooms and other mycogens are still used in standard texts today.

http://clicks.robertgenn.com/images/featured_artist/beatrix-potter/beatrix-potter-fungi2.jpg

http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_images/POTTER/pot_mushrms.jpg

http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images-misc/case-studies/beatrix-cover.jpg

http://cdn.stackedblog.com/wp-content/uploads/fungi.jpg
Setanta
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:34 am
I also loved the illustrations for the Borrowers' books. I haven't yet found the name of the illustrator who did this one, but these are the drawings i remember:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2032/2540181727_79725d7be5.jpg
Setanta
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:41 am
Found it . . . the original illustrator was Beth Krush.

http://witch.froghome.info/html/images/p081_1959U-Beth%20&Joe%20Krush.jpg

http://witch.froghome.info/html/images/p081_1982U-Beth%20&Joe%20Krush.jpg

http://images.bookbyte.com/isbn.aspx?isbn=9780152047375
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sozobe
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:43 am
@Setanta,
I do recall! I thought of you/ that thread earlier.
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ossobuco
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 08:14 am
@panzade,
Now I want to read that -
loved Eleanor Clark's essay on roman cats in Rome and a Villa.
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ossobuco
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 08:25 am
@aidan,
Love that hollyhocks illustration. Well, and the other one too.
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ossobuco
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 08:33 am
@Setanta,
Those are gorgeous illustrations. Aside from the life in her details, her colors are subtle and 'right' choices to me.

Now I remember there was another thread..

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wandeljw
 
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Fri 15 Apr, 2011 09:24 am
In the 1960's my grammar school library had old books from The Hardy Boys series. Part of the appeal was the cover art.

http://www.hstreasures.com/img/hardyboys1.jpg
 

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