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Alice B. Woodward was primarily known for her children's storybook illustrations, but she also did scientific illustrations (including dinosaur reconstructions for the Illustrated London News), art for 2 Gilbert & Sullivan operas & was a tutor to the artist Cicely Mary Barker.
I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true.
― Maurice Sendak
John Tenniel's color version of Alice in Wonderland with the original proof on the right.
She once said: In illustrating for children, what I relish most is trying to satisfy the constant question in the back of my mind - will this picture capture a child's imagination?
“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”
- Colette (illustration by Ben Hatke)