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“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
(illustrations by Kim Ji-Hyuk)
Did you know that Virginia Woolf wrote 2 children's books? They were The Widow & the Parrot and Nurse Lugton’s Curtain. Both were stories about animals and magic. The latter was not published until 1991.
Today I spent a great deal of time enjoying the fairy illustrations of Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Her work had been so popular that her book Fairyland was gifted to an infant Princess Elizabeth, who later became Queen.
Two of the most important figures in contemporary children's literature are also two of the most overlooked: George MacDonald and E. Nesbit. Both had a huge impact on children's authors to come: from C.S. Lewis to Madeleine L'Engle to J.K. Rowling.
In honor of his birthday today, her are some of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's original watercolors for The Little Prince.
As a child, John Bauer was a dreamer. Preferring his imagination to the company of others, he would go off into the woods with sketchpad & pencil. He spent solitary hours there. I like to think the art he later produced of trolls & magical creatures were those he spent time with.
