~Laura Coombs Hills

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Laura Coombs Hills was born on
September 7, 1859, in the seacoast city
of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
She died in 1952
~ Link here to read more~
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~The Real Alice

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The Real Alice In Wonderland - 25 Pictures
Before Alice ever set foot in Wonderland,
there was Alice Liddell, the 10-year-old friend
of an eccentric, stuttering lecturer in mathematics
who would later find fame as a writer, under
the name Lewis Carroll.
(Pictured: 6-year-old Alice Liddell in costume 1858.)
Photo: Lewis Carroll/Getty Images
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Following the White Rabbit.
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~Sunday Poem

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EVER seek to tell thy love,

Love that never told can be;

For the gentle wind doth move

Silently, invisibly.

 

I told my love, I told my love,

I told her all my heart,

Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.

Ah! she did depart!

 

Soon after she was gone from me,

A traveller came by,

Silently, invisibly:

He took her with a sigh.

by: William Blake (1757-1827)
Painter unknown to me

“Sophie saw a pretty little squirrel.”
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Page from Les Malheurs de Sophie
[Sophie’s Misfortunes] by Comtesse de Ségur,
Illustrated by Marie Madeleine Franc-Nohain, 1931

~Romaine Brooks

Romaine Brooks - Self-Portrait, 1923
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaine_Brooks

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Illustrations by Beatrice Braun-Fock from
Das Männlein Mittentzwei by Paul Alverdes, 1937
http://illuopa.blogspot.com/
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~Molly Brett

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Molly Brett (1912-1990).Born in Surrey,
Molly Brett’s mother was noted animal painter,
Mary Gould Brett.
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She studied art at the Press Art School under
P V Bradshaw and latter attended classes at
the Guildford Art School under Victor Bernand.
Molly Brett started her career illustrating first
children’s’ weekly papers and annuals, including
various illustrations of books by Enid Blyton.
She worked with The Medici Society, and her
work has been produced as greetings cards,
postcards, and children’s’ book illustrations.
She also wrote several children’s books and
featured in many radio and television programmes.
She was a member of the Guildford
Art Society from 1947.  
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http://thepixiepit.co.uk/mollybrett1.htm
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S.S. Longley - “Town Birds” or “My Lady of St. James’s
- An Idyll of the Park,” published in
The Illustrated London News, Christmas, 1924

~Margaret Evans Price

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Margaret Evans Price 1888-1973 was a
children's book illustrator and author.
She was born in Chicago, but her family soon
moved to Nova Scotia and then settled
on the east coast, Massachusetts and later
New York. It is interesting that her talents were
discovered early. Her first illustrated story was
sold to the Boston Journal when she was just 12.
Her studies took her to the Boston Academy
of Fine Arts and Paris.
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Another interesting point in the life of Price,
is that she was married to Irving Price who was
the cofounder of Fisher Price Toy Company
along with Herman Fisher.
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LINK here to see more illustrations.…
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A watercolor painted by Mark Hampton.
LINK
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~John Bauer

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John Bauer - Illustration from
The Seven Wishes by Alfred Smedberg

From Swedish Folk Tales Illustrated by John Bauer

~Charles Perault

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Illustraties uit het boek: Charles Perault
"Der kleine Daumling und andere Marchen"
Helaas niet mijn boek..;o(
HIER GEVONDEN.
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~Ralph Caldecott

Images from an antiquarian children's book:
'The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book
by R. Caldecott'
published in London by
Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd.
the same company that published
all of the Beatrix Potter books.
,.  .. Bye, Baby Bunting!
. Father's gone a-hunting.
Gone to fetch a rabbit-skin
.To wrap the Baby Bunting in.
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Illustrations by Ralph Caldecott
(1846-86),
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   The King was in his Counting-house,
Counting out his Money.
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The Queen was in the Parlour,
Eating Bread and Honey.
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The Maid was in the Garden,
Hanging out the Clothes;
There came a little Blackbird,
And snapped off her Nose.
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But there came a Jenny Wren
And popped it on again.
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