Kate Wakely-Mulroneyさんのイラストまとめ

Teaching Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” and Charles Kingsley’s “The Water-Babies” in two separate classes this week and realising that they would work brilliantly together in a class on spiritual riddles in literature (or indeed on humans and animals in literature…)

Clusters of queens: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “King Arthur and the Weeping Queens” and John Tenniel’s illustration for “Through the Looking-Glass.”

What kind of little boy are you? I think I’m the covetous little boy (those toys look quite appealing), but the dilatory little boy also speaks to me. From “Sketches of Little Boys” (ca. 1846) (more below!)

(4/6) This intimate approach was also a big part of domestic instruction. In the 1740-50s Jane Johnson crafted a set of cards designed to appeal to her children’s senses. They were beautifully and simply decorated, and could be rifled through or hung on the wall to be looked at.

Really enjoyed discussing “The Only Child” (2015) with students in my children’s literature seminar this week. @guojingart’s wordless picture book explores her experience growing up under China’s one-child policy through the lens of fantasy. An extraordinary book.

Beautiful wrap-around cover art by Fanny Young Cory for “About Bunnies” (1924).

Parisian baby lookbook, 1810.

Exquisite illustrations for the New-England Primer’s rhyming alphabet by M. Louise Stowell. A late 17th-century text reimagined at the turn of the 20th century.

A/In Adam’s Fall We Sinned All 🍎
G/As Runs the Glass Our Life Doth Pass ⌛️
W/Whales in the Sea God’s Voice Obey 🐋

Crane provided models for children to follow. You can see how this young person approached the task systematically, focusing on getting the colours and details just right.