When We Were Young : Two centuries of children's book illustration

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About this book All and everything is possible in children's books: princes turn into toads, plants shoot up into the clouds, giants roam and bluster like rogue adults. Accordingly, children's book illustrators have, over the past two hundred years, allowed metaphors to blossom. No need to take the storyteller's word for it; there, on the page, the artist shows what happens. When we were young is a comprehensive, international survey from William Blake to the advent of the television era in 19...Vis mer