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Working from a self-taught studio: a Scarboroug...
Toronto has a longer-than-expected tradition of artists who arrived at illustration sideways, without a fine-art degree to their name. This post traces that lineage from Scarborough's own Guild of All...
Working from a self-taught studio: a Scarboroug...
Toronto has a longer-than-expected tradition of artists who arrived at illustration sideways, without a fine-art degree to their name. This post traces that lineage from Scarborough's own Guild of All...
Robert Munsch is stranger than you remember
Robert Munsch is the most stolen author in the Toronto Public Library system and the writer of a beloved children's book that originated as a private lullaby for two stillborn...
Robert Munsch is stranger than you remember
Robert Munsch is the most stolen author in the Toronto Public Library system and the writer of a beloved children's book that originated as a private lullaby for two stillborn...
The lost art of the children's book woodcut
Children's book woodcut illustration has a history nearly as old as printing itself, running from 15th-century German block books through the Victorian golden age to Marcia Brown's 1962 Caldecott Medal....
The lost art of the children's book woodcut
Children's book woodcut illustration has a history nearly as old as printing itself, running from 15th-century German block books through the Victorian golden age to Marcia Brown's 1962 Caldecott Medal....
Back to school picture books that skip the clic...
Every September the same twelve titles appear on every display table, and most of them feature a small animal clutching a lunchbox. Here are six back to school picture books...
Back to school picture books that skip the clic...
Every September the same twelve titles appear on every display table, and most of them feature a small animal clutching a lunchbox. Here are six back to school picture books...
Lillian H. Smith: the first trained children's ...
In 1912, a 25-year-old from London, Ontario walked into Toronto Public Library and changed what a children's library could be. Lillian H. Smith held that post for forty years, and...
Lillian H. Smith: the first trained children's ...
In 1912, a 25-year-old from London, Ontario walked into Toronto Public Library and changed what a children's library could be. Lillian H. Smith held that post for forty years, and...
A short history of the toy book: Walter Crane a...
In 1864, a nineteen-year-old Walter Crane began illustrating sixpenny toy books for Edmund Evans and quietly changed the way the world thought about pictures made for children. This is how...
A short history of the toy book: Walter Crane a...
In 1864, a nineteen-year-old Walter Crane began illustrating sixpenny toy books for Edmund Evans and quietly changed the way the world thought about pictures made for children. This is how...