100 GREAT CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS

The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Babar, Ludwig Bemelmens' Madeline and Hansi who is packed onto a train by his mother and travels up the mountains, Edward Ardizzone's Lucy Brown and Mr Grimes and Little Tim books, Peter Rabbit, Tomi Ungerer's Moon Man, Edward Bawden, William Steig, Astrid Lindgren, Hans Christian Andersen, Ted Hughes, Maurice Sendak, David Gentleman's Fenella in the South of France, Felix Hoffman's The Sleeping Beauty. This unashamed visual feast of old and new, classic and not so famous but equally collectible imagery celebrates the best designed and illustrated picture books from around the world over the past 100 years. Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child's and family's perspectives throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Fearlessly confronting the frontiers between a child's picture book and art, this is a collectors of children's literature. Hundreds of gorgeous original colour images and book jackets reproduced. 22.86 x 2.54 x 29.21cm. Rare and collectible, 216 pages.