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Classic Children's Book Illustrations: "The Phantom Tollbooth," "Curious George," Etc. (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 11/07/11 01:54 PM ET   Updated: 11/07/11 01:54 PM ET

Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth," here's a compilation of magical illustrations from classic children's books courtesy our friends at Flavorpill. Click on for wild things, plenty of bunnies, one serious little prince and more.

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Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth," here's a compilation of magical illustrations from classic children's books courtesy our friends at Flavorpill. Cl...
Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth," here's a compilation of magical illustrations from classic children's books courtesy our friends at Flavorpill. Cl...
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10:32 AM on 11/09/2011
Apart from Dr Seuss, Sendak and Shepard, I´m afraid I don´t really rate anything here. Even as a kid I found so many of the illustrations aimed at children simplistic and condescending (especially those in Roald Dahl books), as if we couldn´t cope with the quality of work put out for the grown-ups. Back then I just called it boring. For me the best illustrations for children still come from people like DuLac, Rackham, Nielsen etc. back in the so-called "Golden Age."

And I don´t blame the illustrators. I once spoke with a book publisher and she told me that Arthur Rackham, ARTHUR BL@@DY RACKHAM!, wouldn´t have been able to get work today because publishers were terrified of scaring off parents with anything even vaguely challenging. Now that is scary!
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First namepat Sharp
10:37 PM on 11/09/2011
Yes, And the newest book published was 1972......a lot of starving illustrators since then.
thebigbike
ran away to be a cowboy
06:35 PM on 11/08/2011
Leonard Weisgard, not so much, and especially taking his picture over Beatrix Potter's Original Peter Rabbit? fehh...
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frank day
Republican = FAIL
09:16 AM on 11/08/2011
I have three sons and Where the Wild Things Are is one of the very few books I could

get them to sit still for.
03:20 AM on 11/08/2011
Cinderella, Pooh Bear, Three blind mice, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and the Bean Stock, Curious George... the list goes on and on.
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sayrock
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02:48 AM on 11/08/2011
Oh, you left out the illustrations from Father Fox's Pennyrhymes.
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MountPanic
01:51 AM on 11/08/2011
Uh, yeah, neat flickr dude...
01:24 AM on 11/08/2011
Why even bother with a copy of Peter Rabbit by another artist? Beatrix Potter's original pen & ink/watercolors set the standard; any other "re-interpretation" is simply a pale comparison.
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Rich Cash
Enlisted in 1971 - Retired in 1996
12:37 AM on 11/08/2011
The only things I ever read under the covers had a rabbit head or a key on the cover...
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KeepLeft
This is not my self.
12:25 AM on 11/08/2011
No David!
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Gronkie
Radical Independent
10:19 PM on 11/07/2011
Some were great (Dr. Seuss, Sendak, Silverstein) and others were fairly pedestrian. My favorite illustrated children's books of the last few years have been Brian Selznik's beautiful pencil drawings for Hugo Cabret and David Weisner's books, many of which don't even contain words, just gorgeous illustrations that tell a detailed story.
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jparso3
10:03 PM on 11/07/2011
How about Steven Kellogg whose books on Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed were very well illistrated and how about the book why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
thebigbike
ran away to be a cowboy
08:08 PM on 11/07/2011
In the last 20 years there have been a large number of of incredibly imaginative illustrated children's books that are worthy successors to the best of those shown here. j.otto seibold, Lane Smith, John A. Rowe, Vladimir Radunsky, Olga Duginaand Andrej Dugin, Sergei Goloshapov, Maira Kalman, Oliver Jeffers, Petra Mathers, David Weisner, are some of my favorites.
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darkmark
religion, the veil of evil.
06:44 PM on 11/07/2011
most of them were boring and unimaginative.
01:27 AM on 11/08/2011
Look in the mirror
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darkmark
religion, the veil of evil.
01:39 AM on 11/08/2011
hey Joe Frazier died, now there was something real. and i just looked in the mirror. what a handsome, creative, intelligent and wise looking fellow, very impressive.