If you have a favorite illustrator of children's books (past or present), who is it? Why?

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Eric Carle I love Eric Carle's books. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a classic that I have fond memories of. Melsmith's Recommendations The Very Hungry Caterpillar board book Amazon List Price: $10.99 Used from: $1.81 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 234 reviews) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Edward Ardizzone, the Beatrice Potter, runners up Maurice Sendak and Dr Seuss He is the children’s book illustrator ’par excellence’ showing both children and adults alive and will expresssion. I first met him in the Tim series of books - Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, for instance - where he illustrated the sea and a small East Coast (of England that is ^_^) very well. I since found him as illustrator of many children’s books - Friday’s Tunnel for instance - and again his illustrations hamonise with the story rather than clash.

Of course, the other great children’s illustrator is Beatrice Potter. Almost every middle-class toddler and child is brought up on her books, and the stories and the glorious, careful illustrations stay with them into adulthood. Somwhere before the runners up must go the Barbar the Elephant books, the stories of which are gentle and polite, while Barbar builds a city that is so remeniscent of the organisation and architectures (and building labelling) that can be found still in so much of provincial France.

Dr Seuss is wonderfully sureal and full of fun, while Maurice Sendak can be the same, if a bit more ominous. Sources: Personal experience salamanda's Recommendations Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (Little Tim) Amazon List Price: $15.95 Used from: $5.28 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) Tim to the Rescue (Little Tim) Amazon List Price: $15.95 Used from: $5.958 Tim to the Lighthouse (Little Tim) Amazon List Price: $15.959 Fridays Tunnel Amazon List Price: $3.59 Used from: $13.98 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales Amazon List Price: $15.959 Used from: $4.03 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 15 reviews) Beatrix Potter Complete Tales: The 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books; Original & Authorized Edition Amazon List Price: $35.95 Used from: $5.958 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 19 reviews) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) Amazon List Price: $5.959 Used from: $0.93 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 17 reviews) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) Amazon List Price: $5.959 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 6 reviews) The Tale of Tom Kitten (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) Amazon List Price: $5.959 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) stoire De Babar: Le Petit Elephant Amazon List Price: $15.958 Used from: $15.959 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Babar Loses s Crown (Babar (Harry N. Abrams)) Amazon List Price: $5.957 Used from: $0.73 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Meet Babar and s Family (Babar) Amazon List Price: $5.957 Used from: $5.959 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) I believe that Little Tim iss back in print, I have added the new editions, not the earlier ones (more titles available).

Beatrix Potter books: I have added the essential titles, some not added can be nightmare-giving (or they were for me) so not added. Amazon.com appears to have most Barabar books witten by the son (I think), with the original books almost all only in French. I have added acouple of newer titles and the original story in French.5Oh yes, his town was called Celestville after his wife).

Robert Sabuda We offer a hearty vote for Robert Subuda as the best children's book illustrator. S pop-up books are works of art--very intricate, engaging, and creative. If you haven't seen one, you won't believe your eyes.

Here are a few of our favorites:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation (Hardcover) by Lewis Carroll (Author), Robert Sabuda (Illustrator) http://www.amazon.com/Alices-Adventures-Wonderland-Pop-up-Adaptation/dp/0689847432/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-3581429-1801553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173026432&sr=8-2The 12 Days of Christmas Anniversary Edition: A Pop-up Celebration (Hardcover) by Robert Sabuda (Illustrator) http://www.amazon.com/12-Days-Christmas-Anniversary-Celebration/dp/1416927921/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7/104-3581429-1801553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173026541&sr=8-7Cookie Count: A Tasty Pop-up (Hardcover) by Robert Sabuda (Illustrator) http://www.amazon.com/Cookie-Count-Pop-up-Robert-Sabuda/dp/0689811918/ref=sr_1_1/104-3581429-1801553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173026592&sr=1-1Here's his personal webpage:http://www.robertsabuda.com/I do hope this helps--and best of luck to you! Sources: opinionhttp://www.amazon.com/Alices-Adventures-Wonderland-Pop-up-Adaptation/dp/0689847432/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-3581429-1801553?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173026432&sr=8-2 .

Beatrix Potter From childhood, I have always been enchanted by the animal illustrations of Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). Her books--like the tales of Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, and Jemima Puddleduck--are delightful, and the illustrations play an important part in the total reading experience. The fact is, Beatrix Potter was a serious naturalist, and a serious chronicler of nature through her drawings.

She was very much hampered in her interests because she was a woman. It is interesting to imagine what she would have accomplished if she had been born in more modern times. But perhaps we wouldn’t have had all those wonderful children’s stories which children today continue to enjoy.

From Wikkipedia: Scientific aspirations and work on fungi When Potter came of age, her parents appointed her their housekeeper and discouraged any intellectual development, instead requiring her to supervise the household. However, in contrast to her parents’ wishes but in reflection of the period, from the age of 15 until she was past 30, she recorded her everyday life in journals, using her own secret code, a code that was not decrypted until decades after her death. An uncle attempted to introduce her as a student at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, but she was rejected because she was female.

Potter was later one of the first to suggest that lichens were a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae.2 At the time, the only way to record microscopic images was by painting them. Potter thus made numerous drawings of lichens and fungi. As the result of her observations, she was widely respected throughout England as an expert on fungi.

She showed that algae and fungi belong to the same family. She also studied spore germination and life cycles of fungus. In 1897, her paper on the germination of spores was presented to the Linnean Society by her uncle Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe because women were barred from attending meetings.In 1997, the Society issued a posthumous official apology to Potter for the way she had been treated.

The Royal Society refused to publish at least one of her technical papers. Potter’s set of detailed watercolors of fungi, numbering some 270 completed by 1901, is in the Armitt Library, Ambleside. Edit Literary career The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she smuggled into the house or observed during family holidays in Scotland and the Lake District.

She was encouraged to publish her story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, but she struggled to find a publisher until it was accepted when she was 36 in 6-19430, by Frederick Warne & Company. The small book and her following works were extremely well received and she gained an independent income from the sales. She also became secretly engaged to the publisher, Norman Warne, but her parents were set against her marrying anyone who worked for a living.

Their opposition to the wedding caused a breach between Beatrix and her parents. However, the wedding was not to be, for soon after the engagement, Norman fell ill of pernicious anemia and died within a few weeks. Beatrix was devastated.

She wrote in a letter to his sister, Millie, "He did not live long, but he fulfilled a useful happy life. I must try to make a fresh beginning next year."3 Potter eventually wrote 23 books. These were published in a small format, easy for a child to hold and read.

Her writing efforts abated around 1920 due to poor eyesight, though her last major work, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, was published in 6-19430. Potter’s illustration of her anthropomorphic rabbits — in this case the married cousins, Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny (with Peter Rabbit in the background), from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. There are several good Beatrix Potter websites.

I have included in my sources some that have interested me. Sources: http://www.peterrabbit.com/beatrixpotter/beatrixpotter1a.cfm?territory=1&country=1#; http://www.beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/; http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/beatrix_potter.aspx tabbycat's Recommendations Beatrix Potter Complete Tales R/I Amazon List Price: $40.00 Used from: $18.90 The World of Peter Rabbit (Vols. 1-23) Amazon List Price: $160.00 Used from: $49.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 19 reviews) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) Amazon List Price: $6.99 Used from: $6-19430 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 17 reviews) tabbycat's Recommendations The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck (Beatrix Potter Read & Play) Used from: $6-19430 The Tale of Tom Kitten (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) Amazon List Price: $6.99 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) .

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