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Walter Crane
(1845 - 1915)
Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most prolific and influential children’s book creator of his generation.
Along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, his is considered one of the strongest contributors to the child’s nursery motif that the genre of English children’s illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century.
His work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children’s stories for decades to come.
He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children’s books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.
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The Baby's Bouquet (1878)
Bibliography
Beauty and the Beast Picture Book (1901)
This is an omnibus volume containing Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince and The Hind in the Wood. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Bluebeard (1875)
The famous spine chilling story of a wife who was too curious - ‘Sister Anne, Sister Anne!’ Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Bluebeard (1895)
The famous spine chilling story of a wife who was too curious - ‘Sister Anne, Sister Anne!’ This is a later reissue. Read for free online at Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Bluebeard Picture Book (1875)
An omnibus containing Baby’s Own Alphabet, Bluebeard, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. Read online at NLJ.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Bluebeard’s Picture Book (1899)
An omnibus containing Baby’s Own Alphabet, Bluebeard, and The Sleeping Beauty. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Book of Christmas Verse (1895)
An anthology that begins with St. Ambrose. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Henry Charles Beeching
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Book of Wedding Days (1889)
A calendar book with space for wedding anniversaries and quotations for every day.
Author(s):
K. E. J. Reid
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Bric-a-Brac Stories (1885)
Twenty-four stories with pictures. Read for free online at Google Books.
Author(s):
Mrs. Burton Harrison
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book (1910)
An omnibus containing A Gaping-Wide-Mouth-Waddling-Frog, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, and My Mother. There is a new introduction and some up-to-date additions. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Ann Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
“Carrots”: Just a Little Boy (1876)
The story of a family of children, and especially Carrots and Floss. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Chattering Jack (1867)
A nursery tale from Walter Crane. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Chattering Jack’s Picture Book (1876)
An omnibus containing Chattering Jack, How Jessie Was Lost, Grammar in Rhyme, and Annie and Jack in London. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children of the Castle (1890)
A story of twin sisters and magic set in North Wales. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children’s Musical Cinderella (1879)
A musical version of Cinderella. Uses the original Walter Crane illustrations. Read for free online at Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.
Author(s):
Louis Napoleon Parker
William Routledge
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children’s Plutarch (1906)
Abridged and simplified biographies of famous Greek and Roman personages. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
F. J. Gould
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children’s Plutarch (1910)
Abridged and simplified biographies of famous Roman personages. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
F. J. Gould
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children’s Plutarch (1910)
Abridged and simplified biographies of famous Greek personages. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
F. J. Gould
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Christmas Child (1880)
The story of a young boy whose life is cut short too soon. It is based on the life of Thomas Grindal Hutton, who died at age thirteen in 1875. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Christmas Posy (1888)
Eight short stories. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Christmas-Tree Land (1884)
Rollo and Maia go to stay with an elderly cousin at an ancient castle in Thuringia. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane