Paddington Bear, Peter Pan, the Hobbit, the Borrowers and Iron Man among the works featured in Picture This exhibition
A detail of a Michael Foreman illustration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, published by George Allen and Unwin. Photograph: The British Library
The curator of the exhibition of illustrated children's books that opens this week at the British Library found one curious connection between many of the artists: they tend to be solitary creatures, unmarried, and often without children. "In fact I think many of them don't much like children," Matthew Eve said, firmly naming no names.
Nor do the authors always love their illustrators. Kenneth Grahame originally wanted The Wind in the Willows published without pictures. (Two of the illustrators who helped make the book immortal, EH Shepard and Arthur Rackham – who worked on the images for half an hour a day in the last weeks of his life – are among those included in the exhibition, Picture This.)
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Picture This, British Library, London NW1, free until 26 January
Nor do the authors always love their illustrators. Kenneth Grahame originally wanted The Wind in the Willows published without pictures. (Two of the illustrators who helped make the book immortal, EH Shepard and Arthur Rackham – who worked on the images for half an hour a day in the last weeks of his life – are among those included in the exhibition, Picture This.)
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Picture This, British Library, London NW1, free until 26 January
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