Kate Greenaway: The Children's Christmas Supper

Charming reproduction of rare volume by famed 19th-century illustrator includes abundantly illustrated list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents (tulip = fame; blue violet = faithfulness, etc.). Selection of flower-related verses—including "To a Mountain Daisy" by Robert Burns—appears at back of book. 85 full-color illustrations. ...more

Kate Greenaway was one of the most admired children's book illustrators of the Victorian British Era. This treasury collects 327 of her most delightful drawings -- simple, expressive, and filled with the gleeful innocence of youth. Color and black-and-white images from Under the Window, A Apple Pie, and others. ...more

Includes a blank space and a verse for each day of the year. ...more

The "Kate Greenaway Address Book" is decorated with cameos of the best of Kate Greenaway's work. Practical and produced on high-quality art paper with ample space for writing, they contain rare Kate Greenaway illustrations discovered by a private collector. ...more

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French. One of Greenaway's ...more

The first book to bring together in color such a large selection of Greenaway's work. Kate Greenaway's illustrations for children's books have become synonymous with an English childhood, a world where children dance in flowery meadows and nursery rhyme characters find a life both beautiful and innocent. ...more