Early children's book images

Anonymous artist.


Stephen Gooden

The Visible World in Pictures, by John Amos Comenious, 1659. Anonymous artist.


The Games and Pleasures of Childhood, 1657. Jaques Stella.

An Alphabet, 1898. William Nicholson.

Source: http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/childhood/pictur.htm

Presentation sections

This is a rough outline of the illustrators we would like to cover during our presentation.

Section 1 (Emma)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible
http://lib.mansfield.edu/caldecott.cfm
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/illustrations/illustrators/cruikshank.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cruikshank

Early history of publishing for children
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/childhood/pictur.htm

Golden Age

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
Kay Nielson (1886-1957)
Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935)
N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
Beatrix Potter
Blanche Fisher Wright

Section 2

20s-30s
Jean de Brunhoff
E.H. Shepard

40s
Ludwig Bemelmans
Clement G Hurd
Marcia Brown

Section 3 (Alicia)

50s
Edward Gorey
Dr. Seuss

60s
Maurice Sendak
Evaline Ness
Shel Silverstein
Quentin Blake

Section 4 (Aehee)

70s
Tomie dePaola

80s
Chris Van Allsburg

Present
Janell Cannon
Beth Krommes

So Allison- you are left to do Section 2 if that's alright! Also if there are other illustrators anyone can think of that they would like to talk about, you may add them to the list.

Some more illustrators.

Evaline Ness (born Evaline Michelow; April 24, 1911 in Union City, Ohio- August 12, 1986) She won a Caldecott Medal in 1967 for Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine. Evaline was also a highly paid commercial artist.
Artwork is mixed media, and includes pen and ink drawings, found object textural transfers, and woodcuts.

Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was a German-American author. He is most famous today for the series of Madeline books.

Clement G. Hurd (January 12, 1908-February 5, 1988) was an American illustrator of children's books. He is best known for his collaborations with author Margaret Wise Brown, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942).

Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, (born 16 December 1932 in Sidcup) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.

Dorothy Kunhardt (September 29, 1901 – December, 1979) was an American children's-book author, best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny.


J. Otto Seibold is an illustrator of children's books, as well as some picture books intended for all ages (such as Going to the Getty). His most notable books were created with the author Vivian Walsh. Most known for Olive, The Other Reindeer.

International children book artists

I picked out some famous children book illustrator as well as they are authors. 

Anthony Browne (England)

John Burningham (England)

Kveta Pacovska (Czech)- She is called 'magician of color'. One of my favorite!  

Some more international illustrators:

http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/page.asp?m=52&l=2&a=&ma=6&c=769&sc=778&p=52Theartists1

History of Children Book Illustrator

Are we also dealing with history of children lit?

then it would be good to start with George Cruickshank. 

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Although children's literature had its beginnings in the early seventeenth century, with books intended to teach rather than to amuse, it was not until the mid-eighteenth century that books intended specifically for children books began to emerge. By the nineteenth century there was an established market for children's books and a need for illustrators of these books. George Cruickshank was perhaps the best known illustrator in Britain in the early nineteenth century. His work included illustrations for the first English edition of Brothers Grimm's fairy tales.

link to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cruikshank

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chronical history of children book illustration:

http://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+children+illustration+book&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&sa=X&tbo=p&tbs=tl:1,tll:1650,tlh:1699&ei=a9uzSumbEMSQtge1jM3ADg&oi=timeline_histogram_main&ct=timeline-histogram&cd=1

Some more information about history of children book:

http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/childhood/pictur.htm