Vintage childrens book illustrations

“Tuning Up - The World of Music” by Ginn and Co., 1936. Edited by Mabelle Glenn, Helen S. Leavitt, Victor L. F. Rebmann, Earl L. Baker and C. Valentine Kirby. Various illustrators.

Christopher Denise is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and visual development artist. His first book, a retelling of the Russian folktale The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, was pronounced “a stunning debut” by Publishers Weekly. Since then, Chris has illustrated more than twenty books for children, including Alison McGhee’s upcoming Firefly Hollow,…

Elizabeth Shippen Green [American Illustrator 1871-1954] One can see quite a similarity in the styles of artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith. The ladies met while studying illustration art with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and went on to do a children's calendar together. 'The Mistress of the House' series Watercolor and charcoal on board ___ restoration by plumleaves.

The psychology of how we use frames, categories, and storytelling to make sense of the world. “It’s insulting to im...