Kate Greenaway Illustrations CD-ROM and Book

by Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway was one of the most admired children's book illustrators of the Victorian British era. This treasury collects more than 300 of her most darling drawings — simple, expressive, and filled with the gleeful innocence of youth. A charming selection of images gathered from Greenaway favorites, including Under the Window, A Apple Pie, Marigold Garden , and other unforgettable publications, this wondrous collection captures the uncomplicated pleasures of day-to-day nineteenth-century children and families and mothers in comfortable country clothes . . . laughing, skipping, playing, and eating home-baked apple pie right out of the oven! Expertly reproduced in full color and sharp black-and-white.

48 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1977

About the author

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 a highly-regarded prize medal. Amongst her other works are: A Day in a Child's Life (1881), Mother Goose; or, The Old Nursery Rhymes (1881), Little Ann (with Ann Taylor & Jane Taylor) (1883), Marigold Garden (1885), A Apple Pie (1886), Pied Piper of Hamelin (1888) and Kate Greenaway's Book of Games (1889).