Friday, 18 July 2025

Kate Greenaway - part 6

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 6 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 - 5 also. 

1885 Marigold Garden:

Front Cover

Title Page

Printer & Publisher 

Frontispiece

A Genteel Family

At School

Baby Mine

Ball

Blue Shoes

Child's Song

First Arrivals

From Market

From Wonder World

Going to See Grandmamma

Happy Days

In an Apple Tree

Little Girls and Little Lambs

Little Phillis

Mammas and Babies

Miss Molly and the Little Fishes

My Little Girl

On the Bridge

On the Wall Top

On the Wall Top

Ring-a-Ring

Street Show

Tip-a-Toe

The Cats have come to Tea

The Daisies

The Dancing Family

The Little Queen's Coming


The Four Princesses

The Tea Party

The Ungrateful Lamb

The Wedding Bells

To Baby

To Mystery Land

To the Sun Door

Under Rose Arches

When we went out with Grandmamma

When You and I Grow Up

Willy and his Sister

Wishes

You little girl



Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Kate Greenaway - part 5

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 5 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 - 4 also. 

1884 The Language of Flowers:

Front Cover

End paper

Title Page

Vignette

Vignette

Vignette

Vignette

Vignette


1885 Almanack:

Front Cover

Frontispiece

Title Page

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December



Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Another span of life,

Days come and days go,


1886 A Apple Pie, published by George Routledge and Sons, London and New York (letter i not found):

Front Cover