Friday, 25 July 2025

Kate Greenaway - part 9

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 watercolours 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.

Part 9 of a 13-part series on the works of Kate Greenaway.

For more biographical information see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 2 - 8 also.

1885 Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children (continued from part 8): 




























1887 Almanack:

Front Cover

Frontispiece

Title Page

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

1887 Rhymes for the Young Folk:


Front Cover

Frontispiece

Dedication

Introduction

The Elf Singing

The Elf went on with his song,


Amy Margaret

Well-tell! Where should I fly to,

I saw a little Birdie fly to,

I caught him at work one day, myself,

Yes or No?

Yes or No?

Swing, swing, sing, Here's my Throne
and I am a King!

The Bubble

Nick Spence

Ambition

A Riddle

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