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Kate Greenaway


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Children's, Art, Poetry


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 watercolors 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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 4,594 ratings · 462 reviews · 260 distinct works • Similar authors
Mother Goose
4.16 avg rating — 850 ratings — published 1881 — 71 editions
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Language of Flowers
4.02 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1884 — 95 editions
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A Apple Pie
3.53 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1886 — 131 editions
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Marigold Garden
3.47 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1885 — 66 editions
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Under the Window
3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1901 — 68 editions
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The 3 Little Kittens
3.78 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1874 — 13 editions
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A Treasury of Kate Greenaway
4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1967 — 11 editions
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An Apple Pie and Traditiona...
3.19 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1886 — 12 editions
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Kate Greenaway - Book of Games
4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1889 — 38 editions
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Nursery Rhyme Classics
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions
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“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway
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