A Blog of Bosh

Why is it de rigueur for members of the avant-garde to try to stump us? Think of the Surrealists and the Dadaists, with their deadpan refusal to make sense; the authors of the French nouveau roman, with their poker-faced descriptions of trivial things; and the inexplicable mathematical games of Raymond Queneau. The present-day heirs of [...]

Les illustrateurs jeunesse
Cette sélection présente un nombre important d’illustrateurs et d’auteurs-illustrateurs pour la jeunesse, classès par ordre alphabétique, par nationalité et par époque. Cette liste est régulièrement mise à jour. Elle signale les artistes confirmés mais aussi ceux moins connus. Chaque entrée introduit à une biographie de l’illustrateur, une bibliographie, à une série d’illustrations de [...]

Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children’s Books from University of California Collections, 1550�1990
Welcome to Picturing Childhood, an online version of the catalog produced to accompany an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 16 through June 29, 1997. The catalog was published by the Grunwald Center for [...]

University of Delaware: WORLD OF THE CHILD – Two Hundred Years of Children’s Books
An exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris LibraryUniversity of Delaware LibraryFebruary 17 – June 12, 1998

Exhibit Essay for Hey Diddle Diddle: A History of Children’s Book Illustration
An exhibit featuring books from the University Library’s Special Collections, Multicultural Children’s Literature Curriculum Collection, and Private Collections.McHenry LibraryUniversity of California, Santa CruzJanuary 3 – March 19, 2001

That Elgar moustache
On Victorian beards and moustache, with a reference to Lear, though it does not mention that Lear himself wuld be a perfect candidate…Guardian Unlimited

A comic strip that sang
If Walt Kelly had written “regular” books, he might be recognized today as one of the finest satirists of the 20th century. As a wizard of wordplay he might well be mentioned, if not in the same breath with Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, then in the very next.But he didn’t. [...]