Thursday, 15 May 2025

Marjorie-Ann Watts

 



Vintage style covers for Catherine Storr's (1913–2001) series about the wolf under the bed by Marjorie-Ann Watts. Marjorie Ann Watts is the daughter of Punch cartoonist Arthur Watts. After training as a painter and illustrator in the 1940s, she worked for a time as an art editor and typographer before embarking on a career writing and illustrating books for children.



Saturday, 12 April 2025

Beni Montresor



Beni Montresor (1926-2001) 'Little Red Riding Hood', Published by Doubleday 1991. In his illustrations, Beni Montresor pays homage to 19th century illustrator Gustave DorĂ©. 

Above: Les Contes de Perrault by Charles Perrualt, illustrated by Gustave Dore, 1861

Doré was one of the most famous illustrators of Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and Montresor's images imitate some of his most memorable engravings: the encounter in the woods, the wolf at grandmother's bedside, and Little Red Riding Hood in bed with the wolf. However they also have the contemporary quality of Maurice Sendak's 'Where the Wild Things Are' with their dense rich foliage.