Everyman's Library Children's Classics Set Book

Everyman's Library celebrates over 100 years of publishing with the Everyman's Library Children's Classic Set including 39 bestselling titles from their distinguished catalog. From Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan to Little Women and Treasure Island, Everyman's Library Children's Classics offer the best of children's fiction and poetry in enduring hardcover editions with colorful cloth sewn bindings and charming illustrations. The History Everyman's Library, which celebrated 100 years of publishing "distinguished classics" in 2006, was founded in 1906 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent with the purpose of publishing literature that would appeal "to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman." Everyman's Library editions feature original introductions, up-to-date bibliographies, and complete chronologies of the authors' lives and works. In 1992 Everyman’s Library launched a series of children’s classics, bringing back into print illustrators such as Aubrey Beardsley, Ivan Bilibin, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Mervyn Peake, Heath Robinson and his brother Charles. Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Included in This Set) A Christmas Carol Russian Fairy Tales Black Beauty The Secret Garden The Sleeping Beauty Treasure Island Jack the Giant Killer Aesop's Fables The BFG Peter Pan Browse all 39 titles included in this set Everyman's Library Children's Classics: Meet the Illustrators Russian Fairy Tales Illustrated by Ivan BilibinIvan Bilibin (1876–1942) was born in Tarkhova, near St Petersburg, the son of a physician. Although he studied law and qualified as a lawyer in 1900, his heart was in drawing, for which he had a natural talent. Commissioned in 1899 by the Department for the Production of State Documents in Moscow to illustrate a series of fairy tales, he took four years to complete the task, which convinced him that book illustration was his vocation. In 1936, Bilibin was appointed Professor of Graphic Art at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St Petersburg. The Pied Piper of Hamelin Illustrated by Kate GreenawayKate Greenaway (1846–1901) was born in Hoxton, London, the daughter of a well-known engraver, John Greenaway. Her childhood days in the country, at the village of Rolleston in Nottinghamshire, were the inspiration for her very distinctive style of illustration. She showed her drawing talent early and held her first exhibition when she was only twenty-two. Ten years later the printer Edmund Evans engraved and published her collection of illustrated versus, Under the Window, which was an immediate commercial success. It was the first of many books that proved that quality picture books for children could be financially profitable. Don Quixote of the Mancha Illustrated by Walter CraneWalter Crane (1845–1915) was born in Liverpool, the son of a portrait painter in whose studio he worked as a boy, sketching the hands and faces of his father’s sitters. At fourteen he was sent to London as an apprentice to a wood-engraver, and in 1863 the printer Edmund Evans asked him to design and illustrate a series of ‘sixpenny toybooks’ for children. In all, he designed some fifty of these books, usually with fairy-story texts, sometimes with stories by his sister Lucy or himself. They became the most popular children’s books of the day and for the next thirty years Crane was pre-eminent as an illustrator. Read More