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A rabbit in a blue jacket, a girl riding a white bear, and a cat grinning from a tree all began on the page. These pictures come from illustrated children’s books published from the 1860s through the 1930s. Look closely at the ink lines, color, and open space that bring each scene to life.

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Alice and the Cheshire Cat
Alice and the Cheshire Cat: In John Tenniel’s illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Alice looks up at…
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The Winged Monkeys Carry Off Dorothy
The Winged Monkeys Carry Off Dorothy: W. W. Denslow sends Dorothy and the Tin Woodman across a flat blue sky in The…
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The Girl Rides the White Bear
The Girl Rides the White Bear: The white bear and its rider seem tiny at the bottom of Kay Nielsen’s East of the Sun and…
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Peter Rabbit Squeezes Under the Gate
Peter Rabbit Squeezes Under the Gate: In Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), Peter squeezes under the garden…
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The Wild Swans: The Silent Princess
The Wild Swans: The Silent Princess: In Eleanor Vere Boyle’s Fairy Tales (1872), the silent princess of The Wild Swans…
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The Hind in the Wood: Désirée in Her Palace
The Hind in the Wood: Désirée in Her Palace: In Walter Crane’s The Hind in the Wood (1875), Désirée sits with her chin on…
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John Gilpin’s Family at the Carriage
John Gilpin’s Family at the Carriage: In Randolph Caldecott’s The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878), the family…
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Under the Window: Somewhere Town
Under the Window: Somewhere Town: A girl walks across rooftops in Kate Greenaway’s Under the Window, released in 1878 and…
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The Stout Bout Between Little John and Arthur a Bland
The Stout Bout Between Little John and Arthur a Bland: In Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), Little…
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Rumpelstiltskin at the Spinning Wheel
Rumpelstiltskin at the Spinning Wheel: In Andrew Lang’s The Blue Fairy Book (1889), the miller’s daughter sits by a…
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Jeanne d’Arc: The Battle of Jargeau
Jeanne d’Arc: The Battle of Jargeau: In Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel’s Jeanne d’Arc (1896), spears rise in a dense row…
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The Golden Age: A Boy on a Gate
The Golden Age: A Boy on a Gate: In Maxfield Parrish’s illustrated edition of The Golden Age (1900), a boy leans over a…
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Vasilisa Outside Baba Yaga’s Hut
Vasilisa Outside Baba Yaga’s Hut: In Russian Wonder Tales (1917), Ivan Bilibin shows Vasilisa raising a glowing skull…
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The Elephant’s Child Reaches for Bananas
The Elephant’s Child Reaches for Bananas: In Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories (1902), the Elephant’s Child reaches with…
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A Child’s Garden of Verses: The Children’s Reflections
A Child’s Garden of Verses: The Children’s Reflections: In Jessie Willcox Smith’s illustrations for Robert Louis…
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: The Crow and the Mice
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: The Crow and the Mice: A crow bends its beak toward two mice in Arthur Rackham’s…
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The Little Mermaid in the Storm
The Little Mermaid in the Storm: In Edmund Dulac’s Stories from Hans Andersen (1911), pale foam cuts through a dark wave…
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Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins and Israel Hands
Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins and Israel Hands: In N. C. Wyeth’s Treasure Island (1911), Jim Hawkins and Israel Hands face…
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The Water-Babies: Tom Falls Toward the Water
The Water-Babies: Tom Falls Toward the Water: In W. Heath Robinson’s The Water-Babies (1915), a small pale figure hangs in…
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Winnie-the-Pooh Visits Owl
Winnie-the-Pooh Visits Owl: In A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), E. H. Shepard draws Pooh on a branch in front of Owl’s…
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Millions of Cats: The Old Man Under the Tree
Millions of Cats: The Old Man Under the Tree: In Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928), the old man bends down to another cat…

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