From: Monica R. Edinger <edinger>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:07:01 +0100

Thank you, Amy, for mentioning Oveden's terrific book. Also, for those interested in seeing a variety of illustrators, there is the newly published edition by Chronicle Books. Cooper Edens, a collector, has provided a variety of illustrations from a variety of artists.

After seeing the Oveden book I tracked down several of the full editions of the artists I most liked. Amy mentions Charles Robinson's wonderful illustration of The Pool of Tears. I too loved that illustration and highly recommend trying to find the complete book to see. Just about every page is full of illustrations, some large and some small. I love his little rabbits cutting through the text in Chapter 1. I loved it so much that I bought it when I saw it in a rare book catalog. (I'm not a fantatic collector,but that book I really wanted.) I also like Willy Pogany's (the Rockette-like cards) and bought that as well (at Marchpane, a bookstore in London that specializes in rare children's books.) However, a warning: Pogany does have an extremely racist rendition of the cook in Pig and Pepper. She's the stereotypical Aunt Jemimah/Butterfly McQueen of 1930s movies.

Easier to find are editions with illustrations by Mabel Lucie Atwell and Gwynedd Hudson. I have a copy of the Mervyn Peake edition (who is also the author of a wonderful Gothic fantasy saga of his own called Gormenghast Trilogy) and find it okay, no more (but that is just me!) Monica


Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at yahoo.com
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