If this book was butter…

These are so lovely, I have to share: illustrations by Brian Wildsmith in A Child’s Garden of Verses.
 

 

 

 
I couldn’t express it better than Vintage Kids’ Books:
if this book was butter, right now I would be smearing it all over toast
 
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Great Artist, or Mere Illustrator?

I share Maurice Sendak’s contempt for the question about someone being a great artist or a mere illustrator. Someone can be a bad illustrator, just as someone can be a bad writer, but I don’t think there is such a thing as “mere illustration”. Great illustration enriches the book, adding humor or emotion not found in [...]