Fables de la Fontaine, detail (owl) - Gustave Doré

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/dore/dore_owl.html

Rapunzel - Walter Crane

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/colour/rapunzel.shtml

Ronald Searle

[Young Cat Already Regreting Puberty]

[St Trinians]

Edward Ardizzone at his drawing board

John Renbourn - English Dance

Sulamith Wulfing

http://wulfing.artpassions.net/

Kay Nielsen - The Queen Did Not Know Him

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/nielsen/kn_queendidnotknowhim.html

Petr Horacek

http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Petr-Horacek-4457.aspx

Hilary Knight

http://www.hilaryknight.com/

Mousehole Cat - illus. Nicola Bayley

author : Antonia Barber

http://users.ictp.it/~lucatell/mowzer/mouzer.shtml

http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Nicola-Bayley-1674.aspx

Mother Stories - author Maud Lindsay

Dave McKean - The Wolves in the Walls

Oliver Jeffers

http://www.oliverjeffers.com/

Emily Gravett

http://www.emilygravett.com/

Edward Ardizzone - The Lady Next Door

Watercolour on paper, c. 1974

http://www.galleries.co.uk/pr/s6-07-CAMBRIDGE-BOOK---PRINT-pr1.htm

Fairy Dolls (post)

A Fairy Land of Beautiful Pastels

http://flowergardengirl.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/a-fairy-land-of-beautiful-pastels/

The Stick Fire - Kate Greenaway

Drawing

Ruskin described her world:

"A Land of Flowers and gardens ... people with toddling boys and little girls clad in high-waisted gowns ... and frocks of dainty chintz"

Fine by me.

Sinéad O'Connor - She moved through the Fair

"Off with his head!" - Arthur Rackham

Mary Manning

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator.cgi/marym

Kristin Abbott

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator.cgi/kmabbott

Snow Queen detail - Christian Birmingham

Cinderalla and the Glass Slipper - Warwick Goble

Christian Birmingham - Aslan's Camp

Steam Train

personal collection

Doron Ben-Ami

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator.cgi/dbenami

John Halifax, Gentleman - illus. Geoffrey Whittam

I'm just reading this now rather quaint book by Dinah Craik

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/craik/mitchell/3.html

and liked the illustrations in my edition by Whittam.

Jui Ishida

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustratorDetails.cgi/28995/12

Mike Brownlow

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator.cgi/mikebrownlow

Matilda - Quentin Blake

Cinderella's Slippers - Aubrey Beardsley

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/beardsley/ab_cinderella.html

Arthur Rackham - Irish Fairy Tales

Love and Duty

personal collection

Winking Chesh - Paulina Cassidy

http://www.duirwaighgallery.com/show_prod_with_artist.php?image_num=1767&section=180

Rival Drummers

personal collection

Woodpecker

from an old Children's book

(personal collection)

Mabel Lucie Attwell - "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"

Mabel Lucie Attwell - The Pool of Tears

A Paletot

Engraving of a paletot, from Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion.
Printed paper. Britain, 1889.
V&A

http://www.fashion-era.com/Coats_history/pelisse_history_1.htm

How Maggie Molloy was Taught

No author or illustrator (FD initials) given.

Jessica's Mother

From Jessica's Mother a sequel to Jessica's First Prayer

by Hesba Stretton

date unknown. late 19th century

this book had some famous engravers like G. Browne but I can only read AAB as the initials - personal collection

Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy - Bows of London

Nothing to add. This is the real thing.

Cat and Bell

from 'Children At Home'
New York, undated

Wise Dog

from 'Children At Home'
New York, undated

Swimming Match

from 'Children At Home'
New York, undated

A Dogs Gratitude

from 'Children At Home'

New York, undated

personal collection

Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures 1913

http://www.nocloo.com/gallery2/v/arthur-rackham-book-pictures/rackham-book-pictures09.jpg.html?

School is over, by Kate Greenaway

V&A

from Under The Window. England, c.1879.

The White Hind, by Arthur Hughes

V&A

Inspired by the poem Endymion by John Keats (1795-1821) in 1818, adapted from the story by classical Greek writer, Lucian. Watercolour painting. England, c.1870.

Draco by Caroline McFarlane-Watts

I love this and can I just add Caroline has great taste in music too, ie. mine!

http://www.tall-tales.com/home.htm

Show of Hands - Country Life

Another of my favourite folky bands. I haven't seen them for a couple of years but they are terrific live.

Kirsi Salonen

[Fallen Kingdom]

http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=110107