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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
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1898)
Twenty-eight tales from the Brothers Grimm. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
A collection of five original fairy tales. Read for Free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Oscar Wilde
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Jacomb Hood
Herman: or The Little Preacher (1874)
A sentimental, improving book. Also includes Little Threads and The Story Lizzie Told. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Prentiss
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Hind in the Wood (1875)
A neglected fairy curses the newborn princess. Read for Free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The History of Reynard the Fox (1894)
An English verse version of a popular epic satire, first translated by William Caxton. This is the first edition. Here is the second edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The History of Reynard the Fox (1897)
This is a metrical version of Caxton’s old English translation of the traditional romance of Reynard the Fox. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The “House that Jack Built” Alphabet (1865)
This version includes outline pictures, opposite the colored plates, to be filled in by the user.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (1882)
Fifty-two tales from the German masters. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (1963)
A facsimile of the original edition of 1882. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (1963)
A facsimile of the original 1882 publication.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
How Jessie Was Lost (1868)
A young girl runs away from her nurse at the park and is taken to the keeper’s house where her loud weeping attracts her parents. Read for free online at Toronto Public Library.
Author(s):
Lucy Crane
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
An Inland Voyage (1878)
Robert Louis Stevenson and his friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson embark on a trip through Belgium and France by canoe which is chronicled in this book. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Jack and the Beanstalk (1875)
Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: this link downloads a very large file.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Jack and the Beanstalk (1900)
Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. The cover image above is from the 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
Junior Classics Volume 4 (1912)
Selections from the tales of chivalry such as King Arthur, Roland, and Robin Hood for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Hugh Thomson
Keeper’s Travels in Search of His Master (1872)
Much animal cruelty is depicted in this story of a stray dog. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Edward Augustus Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
King Albert’s Book (1914)
Letters, poems, songs and pictures in sympathy for Belgium under the Teuton’s boot, this book served as a fundraiser for relief efforts. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Maxfield Parrish
Arthur Rackham
Et al
King Arthur’s Knights (1911)
Some of the tales of the Knights of the Round Table. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
King Gab’s Story Bag (1869)
Fifteen new fairy stories. The Blue Pip and the Fairy is likely the best of them. Read for free online at Google Books.
Author(s):
Heraclitus Grey
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane