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Kate Greenaway

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Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (1846-1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under the Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in her honour in 1955, is awarded annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of...more

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Books by Kate Greenaway

Average rating: 3.74 · 359 ratings · 58 reviews · 58 distinct works

	Language of Flowers 3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings — 20 editions	My rating:
	Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1881 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Apple Pie 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1901 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, Kate Greenaway (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1842 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Marigold Garden 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1885 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Under The Window: Pictures & Rhymes For Children 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Treasury Of Kate Greenaway Stories 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kate Greenaway's Book Of Games 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Kate Greenaway's Family Treasury 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1980	My rating:
	The Kate Greenawaytreasury by Kate Greenaway, E. Ernest (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: