Walter Crane, The Baby’s Opera, (London, 1876) SCS 05207

Find out who made his name with illustrations for books on bird-watching, mysteries of police and crime and a magazine describing everyday life in the British navy and army.    See witches and fairies, trees with human limbs and faces, floating pies and talking diseases.  Discover which early nonsense poem was recited by nineteenth-century students as a tour de force of memory.  Follow the bizarre adventures of a boy learning to write, as he jousts on horseback and wrestles with sea-serpents.  You might even find some sheep!

Visit the Special Collections exhibition on three ‘Golden Age’ children’s book illustrators in the basement of the David Wilson Library.

Read more about this exhibition at http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2012/january/golden-age-of-children2019s-book-illustration-on-display 

The exhibition is due to run until 1st April 2012.