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...possible review." This week Foote and Sheppard collaborated in producing a section devoted entirely to children's books; it includes an article (by Sheppard) on Maurice Sendak, who has just illustrated a collection of Grimms' fairy tales, a four-page color insert of illustrations by Arthur Rackham, N.C. Wyeth and Peter Spier, plus brief reviews of a few of the year's best juvenile books...
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 128 pages. Viking. $6.95. A predictable score of Grimm old favorites (samples: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Bridegroom) with color and black-and-white pictures from the 1909 Rackham edition. The original English translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas is laced with "prithees" and "shan'ts." (The flounder says to the fisherman, "I shan't be good...
...Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and the price of this new edition is commendably...
...live for three or four thousand years, and seem to be fond of putting children into frying pans. Tomtes, on the other hand, are small (ten inches tall), benign and clever. The illustrator, John Bauer, who died in 1918, seems to have been Sweden's answer to Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle. A fondness for somber colors makes him a good deal better at painting trolls than princes...
...ARTHUR RACKHAM, His LIFE AND WORK by Derek Hudson (181 pp.; Scribner; $20), tells the story of the British insurance clerk who became one of the two or three finest illustrators of children's books. The biography is a loving quiet account of a quiet life, but the book's main distinction lies in the Rackham illustrations. Those for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows alone are enough to touch off shivers of nostalgia in all who knew them in childhood...