Children's Literature

Take a look behind the scenes at the process of creating a children's book—from manuscripts, sketches and preliminary art to book dummies, color separations, and final artwork—in this collection of images from our archives.

Showing 361 to 380 of 1,782

Advanced
Paull - Trudy, The Motherly Hen
Coombs - Dorrie Selling Items
Milhous - WPA poster, "Rural Pennsylvania"
Milhous - Cut-work valentine, published in "Jack and Jill" magazine 16:4 (1954) pp 6-7
Milhous - Facing page 76, preliminary art for "A Book for Jennifer"
Jauss - Our Fellow Immigrants - Page 45 and 70
D'Aulaire - Final Art for "Benjamin Franklin"
Duvoisin - Preliminary Art for "Veronica's Smile" - Pages 26-27
Ets - Drawing of Animals in a Barn
Galdone - Final Art for "The Little Red Hen" - Pages 35-36
Galdone - 3 blueline proof color separations for "The Little Red Hen" - Pages 35-36
Jauss - 4 Illustrations for "The Pasture"
Keats - Zoo, Where Are You? - Pages 18-19
Jupo - Nothing to Wear but Clothes - Page 48
Keats - Zoo, Where Are You? - Pages 32-33
Galdone - Hans in Luck
Domanska - The Trumpeter of Krakow - Page 59
Jupo - Nothing to Wear but Clothes - Page 53
Jauss - Our Fellow Immigrants - Page 10 and 59
Hoban - The Sorely Trying Day