Illustration

Today, Rita Smith remembers author/illustrator Lois Lenski.

Today, Rita Smith’s recollection returns us to one of the most famous creators of children’s books in England in the late 19th Century – Walter Crane.

That music, from one of PBS’s longest-running and most popular series, “Mystery,” is accompanied by highly stylized drawings of fainting Edwardian dowagers and ingenues and their languid beaus, barely escaping the peculiar accidents occurring around them at their haunted garden party.

Today, John Cech talks about the influence of illustrator Kate Greenaway.