Into The Forest Darkさんのイラストまとめ

Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland was a huge influence on illustrator Maurice Sendak when he created his book In The Night Kitchen.

“The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure."
- Winsor McCay, who was born #OTD in 1871. A pioneer in animation & comic strips

Okay, Pevensies, you guys go on ahead and battle the White Witch. I'll just be over there having a picnic with talking animals and mythical creatures. No, I don't need to be crowned king of Narnia. I'm good here.
(illustration by Pauline Baynes)

Outside it is dreary and rainy, but I am inside and lost in Day Dreamers by @MsEmilyApple It is such a lovely book for those of us who are wakeful dreamers with "wondering, wandering" hearts. If you have not ever read this treasure of a book, I cannot recommend it enough.

Mae Besom

Shotaro Honda's illustrations for the 1938 children's book Koganemaru (こがねまる)

There are times that I feel the more people talk to me, the more I simply wished I lived in a world of talking animals instead. One cannot convince me that Mrs. Tittlemouse would not be far more pleasant company than many of the folks I meet.
(art by Beatrix Potter)

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”
― Jim Henson

Edmund Dulac

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
(art by Jessie Wilcox Smith)