Children's book illustration

English: Children's book illustration is a genre of art associated with children's literature, both children's picture books and books for older children. The earliest children's illustrated books date from the 16th century. Many highly regarded artists have worked in the field, including William Blake, with many children's book illustrators gaining critical recognition, such as Maurice Sendak. Many artists are also authors.

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16th-18th centuries

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  Erhard Altdorfer, from a book on Reynard the Fox (1539)
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  From Kleinste oder Kinder Postill (Author: Jakob Feucht) (1579)
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  From an alphabet book (Author/artist: Karion Istomin) (1694)
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  (unknown), from Divine Songs (Author: Isaac Watts) (1715)
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  "J.T." (John Tilly?), from Three Hundred Animals (Author: Thomas Boreman) (1730)
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  John Newbery (1744), from A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
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  (unknown) (1783), from The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse (Author: Dorothy Kilner)
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  (unknown), from The Adventures of a Pincushion (Author: Mary Ann Kilner) (1783/4)
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  Sarah Trimmer, from Fabulous Histories (1786)
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  William Blake (1791), from Original Stories from Real Life (Author: Mary Wollstonecraft) (1788)
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  (unknown), from A Token For Children (Author: James Janeway) (1795)

19th century

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  Jessie Willcox Smith (ca 1861-1897)
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  Mythological creatures, from Bilderbuch für Kinder (1806)
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  Walter Crane (1834), from a version of Princess Belle-Etoile
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  (unknown), from Struwwelpeter (Author: Heinrich Hoffmann) (1845)
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  Sinterklaas (variant of Santa Claus) (1854), from Tante Keetje's prentenboek
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  Illustration from De Nieuwe Rijschool ('the new riding school'), a picture book from the Netherlands from 1856
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  Kate Greenaway (1864), from Walk Me Through My Dreams (Author: Joe Lindsay)
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  Cinderella (1865)
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  Robinson Crusoe and Friday (unknown artist, 1870s), from Aunt Louisa's Oft Told Tales (Original author: Daniel Defoe ) (1719)
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  John Tenniel (1872), from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Author: Lewis Carroll) (1871)
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  Elizabeth and Mary Kirby, from The Hummingbirds (1874)
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  Randolph Caldecott, from The House that Jack built (1878)
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  (unknown), from The Prince and the Pauper (Author: Mark Twain) (1881)
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  Richard Doyle, from Princess Nobody : a tale of fairy land (Author: Andrew Lang) (ca 1884)
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  Randolph Caldecott, from The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1887)
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  Edward Lear), from A Book of Nonsense (1888)
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  Henry Justice Ford, from The Red Fairy Book (Author: Andrew Lang) (1890)
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  Alfons Mucha (1894), from Mémoires d'un éléphant blanc (Author: Judith Gautier)
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  W.H. Drake (1895), from The Jungle Book (Author: Rudyard Kipling) (1894)
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  Heinrich Lefler (1897), from Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt (Author: Hans Christian Andersen)
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  Heinrich Schlitt, from The Children's Encyclopædia (Author: Arthur Mee) (1899)
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  Helen Stratton (1899), from The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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  Lewis Baumer, from The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Author: Edith Nesbit) (1899)

Early 20th century

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  Anne Anderson (20th c.), from a version of The Little Mermaid
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  Alfred Schmidt (1900), from Flugten til Amerika (Author: Christian Winther)
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  William Wallace Denslow (1900), from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Author: L. Frank Baum)
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  Clara E. Atwood (1901), from A Book of Nursery Rhymes (Author: Charles Welsh)
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  Peter Newell (1902), from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Author: Lewis Carroll) (1871)
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  "The Journey", Elizabeth Shippen Green (1903), illustration for poems by Josephine Preston Peabody
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  Beatrix Potter (1904), from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
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  Arthur Rackham (1907), from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Author: Lewis Carroll) (1865)
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  Cyril F. Austin (1908), from Edward Buttoneye and his adventures
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  J. R. Skelton (1908), from Stories of Beowulf by H. E. Marshall
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  John R. Neill (1908), from Little Black Sambo
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  Lothar Meggendorfer (1910), from Schneewittchen (Snow White)
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  Franz Jüttner (1910), from Schneewittchen
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  N.C. Wyeth (1911), from Treasure Island (Author: Robert Louis Stevenson) (1883)
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  Rudyard Kipling (1912), from Just So Stories
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  Joseph M. Gleeson (1912), from Just So Stories (Author: Rudyard Kipling)
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  Lancelot Speed (1912), from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (Author: Sir James Knowles)
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  William Heath Robinson (1913), from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
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  John Liston Byam Shaw (1913), from The Adventures of Akbar (Author: Flora Annie Steel)
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  Blanche Fisher Wright (1913), from The Goody-Naughty Book (Author: Sarah Cory Rippey)
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  Abanindranath Tagore (1914), from Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists
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  William Heath Robinson (1915), from The Water Babies (Author: Charles Kingsley)
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  William Heath Robinson (1915), from The Water Babies (Author: Charles Kingsley)
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  Maud and Miska Petersham (1917), from Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines (Author: John Stuart Thomson)
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  John R. Neill (1917), from The Lost Princess of Oz (Author: L. Frank Baum)
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  Willy Pogany (1917), from The Children of Odin (Author: Padraic Colum)
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  Hilaire Belloc (1918), from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
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  Florence White Williams (1918), from The Little Red Hen
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  Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1919), from The Burgess Bird Book for Children
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  Johnny Gruelle (1919), from Friendly Fairies
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  Virginia Frances Sterrett (1920), from Old French Fairy Tales
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  Hugh Lofting (1920), from The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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  Hendrik Willem van Loon (1921), from The Story of Mankind
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  Paul Bransom (1921), from An Argosy of Fables (Author: Frederic Taber Cooper)
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  Margery Williams (1922), from The Velveteen Rabbit
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  Boris Artzybasheff (1922), from Verotchka's Tales (Author: Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak)
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  Edward Julius Detmold (1924), from The Arabian Nights (Author: Charles Maurice Detmold)
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  Tom Seidmann-Freud (1927), from Das Wunderhaus. Ein Bilderbuch zum Drehen, Bewegen und Verwandeln
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  Nicolae Tonitza (1932), from Fram (Author: Cezar Petrescu)

Modern works

• Note: Few children's book illustrations after 1923 are free of copyright restriction, thus this section, with some exceptions, does not represent the best in the field from the modern period.

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  Roger Vernam (1945), from Jungle Animals (Author: Frank Buck)
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  Clara Elsene Peck (1946), from Treasure Chest, Vol. 2, No. 9
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  (unknown) (1953), from Garfield Goose Memory Book
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  Hanna-Barbera (ca 1959-1961), from Quickdraw McGraw Coloring Book
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  Peggy Adler (1969), from Sets and Numbers for the Very Young
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  Felicia Bond (1989), from Big Red Barn (Author: Margaret Wise Brown) (1954)
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  Reidar Kjelsen (21st century), from Jon Demon
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  "MCM" (2006), The Pig and the Box
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  Alejandra Oviedo (2007), from La noche que nos regalaron el fuego (Author: Carmen Munoz Hurtado)
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  Wikijunior Wikibooks (2008), from Alphabet des animaux (photo courtesy NASA)
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  Katalin Szegedi (2009), from Rapunzel
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  Lisa Aisato N'jie Solberg (2012), from Fugl
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  Ryan Jude Novelline (2010), "The Golden Book Gown" constructed of illustrations from recycled and discarded Little Golden Books

Children's book illustrators

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  Loren Long
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  Robert Bright
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  Isobel Harrop
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  Felicia Bond
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  Bruce Degen
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  W. W. Denslow
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  Tove Jansson
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  William Joyce
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  Rudyard Kipling
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  Svein Nyhus
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  Howard Pyle
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  Abanindranath Tagore
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  John Tenniel

See also

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  Bookshop
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  Library
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  Bookbinding
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  Illustrated title pages
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  Travel literature