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Adventure of Two Dutch Dolls and a ‘Golliwogg’, The (Upton and Upton) 210–11
advertising 31, 33, 60, 76, 99, 119, 148, 158, 197, 235
Aesop 41
‘After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed’ (Dove) 103
Ahlberg, Allan
and Christmas 223
Each, Peach, Pear, Plum 132
Funnybones 131
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night 130–31
Jolly Postman, The 132
and sausages 106–7
Ahlberg, Janet
Each, Peach, Pear, Plum 132
Funnybones 131
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night 130–31
Jolly Postman, The 132
and sausages 106–7
Alfie Gets in First (Hughes) 166
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll and Tenniel) 26–8
‘All-White World of Children’s Books, The’ (Larrick) 227–8
Andersen, Hans Christian
father’s death 232–3
‘Little Match Girl, The’ 22, 24
Angry Arthur (Kitamura and Oram) 118–20
animals
bears 1, 4, 6, 76, 106, 111, 150–51, 155, 163–4, 165, 169, 176–7, 213–16
in clothes 39–42, 47–8, 53–4, 65–6
eating other animals 105–7
elephants 20, 51–6, 65, 107, 114, 120–21, 128, 140, 147, 159, 163, 206
foxes 43, 56–7, 153, 155, 187, 236
pets 23, 41, 44, 50–51, 58, 203
rabbits 7, 9, 26, 38–42, 44–5, 48–50, 58, 60–68, 80, 106, 120, 177, 212, 223, 240
and stereotypes 54–7
Applebee, Arthur N. 56
Aristotle 137
Armitage, David 86
Armitage, Ronda 86
‘A Summer Morning’ (Fyleman) 2
Babar 51–6
Babar the King (Brunhoff) 54
Babar’s mother 52–3
Babar’s Travels (Brunhoff) 55
Babes in the Wood, The (Caldecott) 32
Baby Bunting 39–40
Bannerman, Helen 54
Barker, Cicely Mary 183–6
Barlow Institute, The 88–9
Barthes, Roland 208
Beard, Mary 202
bears 1, 4, 6, 76, 106, 111, 150–51, 155, 163–4, 165, 169, 176–7, 213–16
Bear’s Picnic, The (Berenstain and Berenstain) 6, 164
‘Beek’ 218
Belloc, Hilaire 24
Beneduce, Ann 74
Benson, Patrick 151–3
Berenstain, Stan 6, 163–4, 169
Best Friends for Frances (Hoban and Hoban) 6, 122–3
Big Honey Hunt, The (Berenstain and Berenstain) 163
Birds and the Bees and the Berenstain Bears, The (Berenstain and Berenstain) 169
Blount, Margaret 63
Book of Nonsense (Lear) 18–20
Bread and Jam for Frances (Hoban and Hoban) 4, 87–8, 91–2
Briggs, Raymond
Elephant and the Bad Bad Baby, The 120–21
wife’s schizophrenia 230
Brown, Margaret Wise
affair with Michael Strange 58
childhood 58
Color Kittens, The 63
death 58
Goodnight Moon 62–4
innovations in picture books 59–60
Runaway Bunny, The 61–2
Browne, Anthony
Changes 169
and father 160–61
Gorilla 159–62
My Dad 165
Browne, Eileen 71
Browning, Robert 35–6
Brunhoff, Jean de 51–6
Bucket, The (Ahlberg) 133, 223
Burglar Bill (Ahlberg and Ahlberg) 4, 7, 131, 133–7
Bush, George 7
Butler, Dorothy 7
Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast, The (Roscoe) 14–17, 26
cake 74–5, 79, 89, 101–2, 104, 108, 121, 136, 156, 159, 162, 169, 174, 193, 199
Caldecott, Randolph 32, 39–40, 46, 68
Caldecott Medal, The 58, 162, 227
Campbell, Rod 147
Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? (Waddell and Firth) 155, 165
Carle, Eric
advertising 76
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? 76
childhood in Germany 72–4
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The 7, 72, 74–7, 84, 106
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 26–8
‘Jabberwocky’ 28
and nonsense 27–8
and photography 27
Through the Looking-Glass 26–8
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (Scarry) 124
Carter, Angela 178–9
Cat in the Hat, The (Seuss) 92, 95–7
Cautionary Tales for Children (Belloc) 24
Changes (Browne) 169
Chesterton, G. K. 28, 41, 178–80, 205–6, 240–41
Child’s Christmas in Wales, A (Thomas) 223
Christmas 21, 148, 214–15, 219, 221–6, 229, 233–5, 239, 243–6
chromolithography 31
Clever Bill (Nicholson) 212–13
Cole, Babette 202–3
colonialism 54
Color Kittens, The (Brown and Provensen) 63
Compleat Treatise on Perspective in Theory and Practice: on the True Principles of Dr. Brook Taylor (Malton) 146
Cort, Ben 126
Cottingley Fairies, the 181–3
Country Child, The (Uttley) 49, 186, 220
Cousins, Lucy 165
Crane, Walter 32
D’Aulnoy, Madame 179
Day Louis Got Eaten, The (Fardell) 106
Dean & Son 31
Dear Zoo (Campbell) 9, 147, 205, 215
death
Babar’s mother 52–3
and being eaten 105–7, 110–11, 115, 145
suicide 49, 86, 116, 140, 167, 214
Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet, The (Poynter, Fletcher, Parsons) 126
Donaldson, Julia
Gruffalo, The 7, 105, 236–9, 241, 243
Gruffalo’s Child, The 241, 244
Highway Rat, The 241
‘picture-book medicine’ 170
repetition 240–41
rhyme 237
Room on the Broom 241
Smartest Giant in Town, The 27, 241
Snail and the Whale, The 242
son’s schizophrenia 242–5
Squash and a Squeeze, A 236
Zog and the Flying Doctors 204, 241
Dove, Rita 103
Doyle, Arthur Conan 182–3
Each, Peach, Pear, Plum (Ahlberg and Ahlberg) 132
Edwards, Amelia 152
Elephant and the Bad Baby, The (Vipont and Briggs) 120–21
elephants 20, 51–6, 65, 107, 114, 120–21, 128, 140, 147, 159, 163, 206
Eliot, T. S. 151
Elves and the Shoemaker, The (Southgate and Winter) 178
Evans, Edmund 32
Everybody Poos (Gomi) 127–8
Farmer Duck (Waddell and Oxenbury) 85, 155
fathers in picture books 159–65
Fine, Cordelia 125
first experiences genre 65–6
Fisher, Jayne 248–9
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 204
Flower Fairies of the Spring (Barker) 183
Flower Fairies of the Wayside (Barker) 185
food
cake 74–5, 79, 89, 101–2, 104, 108, 121, 136, 156, 159, 162, 169, 174, 193, 199
greed 36, 42, 76, 81, 84, 139, 194–7, 215
jam 27, 85, 87, 91, 101, 188, 193
milk 9, 30, 49, 87–8, 90, 101–4, 127, 138, 187–8, 250
sausages 5, 9, 75, 83, 86, 90, 106–7, 115, 193–4, 248
Frederick Warne & Co. 45
Freedman, Claire 126
Freud, Sigmund 142–3, 209–10, 220
Full, Full, Full of Love (Cooke and Howard) 86–7
Funnybones (Ahlberg and Ahlberg) 131
Geisel, Theodor Seuss see Dr Seuss
genetic memory 190
Giant Jam Sandwich, The (Burroway and Lord) 27, 85
Giraud, S. Louis 146
‘Goblin Market’ (Rossetti) 71
Gomi, Taro 127–8
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Favilli and Cavallo) 206
Goodnight Moon (Brown and Hurd) 62–4
Gopnik, Adam 55
Gorey, Edward 24
Gorilla (Browne) 159–62
greed 36, 42, 76, 81, 84, 139, 194–7, 215
Green, Alison 237–8
Greenaway, Kate 32–9
childhood 33
Greenawayisme 33
Language of Flowers, The 32
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The 35–9
and Ruskin 33–8
Greenawayisme 33
Green Eggs and Ham (Seuss) 92, 97–100
Grimm Brothers 107–8, 176–9, 197–8
Gruffalo, The (Donaldson and Scheffler) 7, 105, 236–9, 241, 243
Gruffalo’s Child, The (Donaldson and Scheffler) 241, 244
Guess How Much I Love You (McBratney and Jeram) 62
gypsies 157–8
Handa’s Surprise (Browne) 71–2, 228
Hardy, Thomas 221–2
Hargreaves, Roger 192–7
hedgehog crisps 158
Hemingway, Ernest 57
Here and Now series 59
Here Comes Noddy Again! (Blyton and Beek) 219
Highway Rat, The (Donaldson and Scheffler) 241
Hilda Boswell’s Treasury of Poetry (Boswell) 1–3, 14, 157
Hill, Eric 147–9
Hill Top Farm 46–7
Hoban, Lillian
Bread and Jam for Frances 4, 87–8, 91–2
Best Friends for Frances 6, 122–3
Hoban, Russell
and voles 87
Bread and Jam for Frances 4, 87–8, 91–2
Best Friends for Frances 6, 122–3
Hoffmann, Heinrich 21–5
Hole Book, The (Newell) 74
hornbooks 31
Houghton Mifflin 95
House at Pooh Corner, The (Milne and Shepard) 215
hubris 139
Hughes, Shirley
Alfie Gets in First 166
father 166–7
marriage 168
Humpty Dumpty 28
Hürlimann, Bettina 52–3
Hyman, Trina Schart 65
I Want My Hat Back (Klassen) 106
I’m Not Scared (Allen) 152
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ (Rossetti) 225, 234
In the Night Kitchen (Sendak) 101–4
Intrigues of the Warring States 236
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Ahlberg and Ahlberg) 130–31
‘Jabberwocky’ (Carroll) 28
Jolly Postman, The (Ahlberg and Ahlberg) 132
‘Jumblies, The’ (Lear) 17–18
Kamishibai shows 119
Keats, Ezra Jack 226–9
Kerascoët 247
Kerr, Judith
career 80
childhood 79–80
Mog 235
Tiger Who Came to Tea, The 79–84
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 80–81
Kitamura, Satoshi 118–20
Klassen, Jon 106
Klein, Naomi 139
Knowsley Hall 18–19
‘Ladybird, Ladybird …’ 130
Language of Flowers, The (Greenaway) 32
Lear, Edward
Book of Nonsense 19–20
and epilepsy 18
limericks 19–20
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 41
Lewis, C. S. 240
Liddell, Alice 27
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, The (Armitage and Armitage) 86
limericks 19–20
Little Black Sambo, The (Bannerman) 54
Little Fur Family, The (Brown and Williams) 60, 64
Little Golden Books 58–9
Little Grey Rabbit 48–50
‘Little Match Girl, The’ (Andersen) 22, 24
Little Miss books 193–4, 196–7
Little Miss Bossy (Hargreaves) 196
Little Miss Greedy (Hargreaves) 196
Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business, The (Holzwarth and Erlbruch) 127
Little People, Big Dreams (Vegara) 206
Little Pretty Pocket-Book, A (Newbery) 13–14
Little Suck-a-Thumb 22
Lorax, The (Seuss) 7, 93, 137–41
Lorca, Federico García 144–5
Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The (Opie and Opie) 129–31
‘Lost Childhood, The’ (Greene) 3, 6
Love You Forever (Munsch and McGraw) 200–201
Malala’s Magic Pencil (Malala and Kerascoët) 247
Martchenko, Michael 199–201
Martin Jr, Bill 76
McKee, David 114–16
McLoughlin Brothers, The 31
Meg and Mog (Nicoll and Pieńkowski) 187–8
Meggendorfer, Lothar 146
Meg’s Eggs (Nicoll and Pieńkowski) 189
Melric series (McKee) 114
midnight feasts 90
milk 9, 30, 49, 87–8, 90, 101–4, 127, 138, 187–8, 250
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague 59
Moll, Henrike 142
monsters 65, 109–12, 115–16, 126, 131, 141
Mr Mean (Hargreaves) 194
Mr Messy (Hargreaves) 195
Mr Nosey (Hargreaves) 194, 196
Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present (Sendak and Zolotow) 26
Mr Skinny 89
Mr Strong (Hargreaves) 193
Mr Tickle (Hargreaves) 194, 197
Munsch, Robert 199–202
Murphy, Jill 159
My Book of Elves and Fairies 181
My Dad (Browne) 165
Mythologies (Barthes) 208
Net Book Agreement 238
‘new baby’ genre 168–70
Newbery, John 13–14
Nicholson, William 212–3
Nicoll, Helen 187–9
Noddy 218–19
Noddy Goes to Toyland (Blyton and Beek) 219
Not Now, Bernard (McKee) 114–16
Nutcracker, The (Hoffmann) 224
‘Oh hush thee my dove …’ (Lullaby) 145–6
Once-ler, The 138–41
Opie, Iona 129–31
Opie, Peter 129–31
Oram, Hiawyn 118–20
Orbis sensualium pictus (Komenský) 13
Outside Over There (Sendak) 100, 159
Owl Babies (Waddell and Benson) 151–3, 155
owls 17, 43–4, 50, 56, 78, 105, 151–3, 155, 187, 215, 239
‘Oxen, The’ (Hardy) 221–2
Oxenbury, Helen 85, 150–51, 155
Paper Bag Princess, The (Munsch and Martchenko) 199–202
parents
death of 52–3, 161, 167, 232–4
fathers in picture books 159–65
and reading aloud 16, 24, 83, 91–2, 96, 104, 112, 157, 241, 246
Paris Review, The 75
Parker, Dorothy 215
Pat the Bunny (Kunhardt) 60
Peck, Peck, Peck (Cousins) 165
Peepo! (Ahlberg and Ahlberg) 9, 132–3, 142–4
Penelope Strawberry and Roger Radish (Fisher) 248
Perrault, Charles 179
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev) 105
Peter Pan (Barrie) 212
Peter Rabbit 7, 38, 41–2, 44–5, 120, 240
pets 23, 41, 44, 50–51, 58, 203
Piaget, Jean 209
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The (Greenaway and Browning) 35–9
Pieńkowski, Jan 187–9
Pig, Daddy 163
Plato 11
Playing the Shape Game (Browne and Browne) 161
Polar Express, The (Allsburg) 222
Polish embroidery 188
Pollard, Albert (father) 4–6, 11–12, 29–30, 51, 88–90, 126–7, 133, 156, 183, 187, 189–92, 225, 233–5, 240
Porter, Max 119
Possum Magic (Vivas and Fox) 87
Potter, Beatrix
engagement to Norman Warne 45–7
Hill Top Farm 46–7
pets 44
Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, The 42
Tailor of Gloucester, The 222
Tale of Jemima Puddleduck, The 43
Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, The 47–8
Tale of Mrs Tittle-Mouse, The 43
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The 38, 41–2
Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The 43
Tale of Two Bad Mice, The 44–5
Princess Smartypants (Cole) 202–3
Prohibition 94
propaganda 56–7
Puffin Picture Books 58
Pullman, Philip 193
rabbits 7, 9, 26, 38–42, 44–5, 48–50, 58, 60–68, 80, 106, 120, 177, 212, 223, 240
reading aloud 16, 24, 83, 91–2, 96, 104, 112, 157, 241, 246
‘Red Shoes, The’ (Andersen) 22, 24, 193
Robin, Christopher 213–16, 250
Room on the Broom (Donaldson and Scheffler) 241
Roscoe, William 14–17
Rosen, Michael 81, 115, 150–51
Routledge and Warne 32
Rudd, David 219
Runaway Bunny, The (Brown and Hurd) 60–62
Ruskin, John 33–8
‘The Sandman’ (Hoffmann) 220
sausages 5, 9, 75, 83, 86, 90, 106–7, 115, 193–4, 248
Scarry, Richard 124
Scheffler, Axel
Gruffalo, The 7, 105, 236–9, 241, 243
Gruffalo’s Child, The 241, 244
Highway Rat, The 241
Room on the Broom 241
Smartest Giant in Town, The 27, 241
Snail and the Whale, The 242
Squash and a Squeeze, A 236
Zog and the Flying Doctors 204, 241
secret supper 89
Sendak, Maurice
on Caldecott 39–40
on Dr Seuss 96
the Holocaust 101
In the Night Kitchen 101–4
on Meggendorfer 146
Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present 26
Nutcracker, The 224
Where the Wild Things Are 100, 109–13, 237
on William Nicholson 212
Seuss, Dr
affair 140
and Berenstain Bears 163–4
childhood 94
wife’s suicide 140
Shepard, E. H. 213–14
siblings 168–75
Smartest Giant in Town, The (Donaldson and Scheffler) 27, 241
Snail and the Whale, The (Donaldson and Scheffler) 242
snow 22, 150, 157, 176, 194, 215, 224–34, 245
Snow White and Rose Red (Southgate and Winter) 176–7
Snowman, The (Briggs) 224–5, 229–32
Snowy Day, The (Keats) 226–9
Southgate, Vera 176–8
Spufford, Francis 115
Squash and a Squeeze, A (Donaldson and Scheffler) 236
Stick Man (Donaldson and Scheffler) 241–2, 244–6
Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, The (Potter) 42
Story of Babar, The (Brunhoff) 51–3
Story of Ferdinand, The (Leaf and Lawson) 57
Struwwelpeter, Der (Hoffmann) 21–5
tactile books 60
Tadpole’s Promise (Willis and Ross) 106
Tailor of Gloucester, The (Potter) 222
Tale of Jemima Puddleduck, The (Potter) 43
Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, The (Potter) 47–8
Tale of Mrs Tittle-Mouse, The (Potter) 43
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The (Potter) 38, 41–2
Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The (Potter) 43
Tale of Two Bad Mice, The (Potter) 44–5
Tempest, Margaret 48–9
Tenniel, John 26
That’s Not My Princess (Watt and Wells) 198–9
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll and Tenniel) 26–8
Tiddler (Donaldson and Scheffler) 241, 243–4
Tiger Who Came to Tea, The (Kerr) 79–84
toys
and Christmas 222–4
coming to life 223–4
Dogger 171–3
dolls 2, 33, 44–5, 184, 191, 209–11, 218–21, 223–4, 244
Noddy 218–19
and technology 220–21
teddy bears 111, 151, 165, 213–16
Winnie-the-Pooh 213–16
Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath (Bauer and Rupprecht) 56–7
TV adaptations 235
Uglow, Jenny 84
‘Uncanny, The’ 209–10, 220, 230
Upton, Bertha 210–11
Upton, Florence K. 210–1
Uses of Enchantment, The (Bettelheim) 8, 108–9
Uttley, Alison 48–50, 186, 214, 217, 220
Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams and Nicholson) 212–13, 223, 240
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The (Carle) 7, 72, 74–7, 84, 106
Waldron, Mark 107
Weil, Simone 206
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Rosen and Oxenbury) 150–51
‘Wheels on the Bus’ 31
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Kerr) 80–81
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak) 100, 109–13, 237
Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne and Shepard) 213–16
Winter, Eric 176
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare) 230
witches 105, 132, 136, 187–9, 198, 206–7
‘Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies, The’ 157–8
World War II
and Germany 56–7, 72–4, 79–82, 85–6, 94, 148
and Jewishness 56–7, 79–82, 101, 110, 226–8
Yousafzai, Malala 247
Zipes, Jack 107–8
Zog (Donaldson and Scheffler) 203–4, 241
Zog and the Flying Doctors (Donaldson and Scheffler) 204, 241