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Despite their age, many of these books are still extremely readable even by young readers. I thumbed through Frog: the horse that couldn’t be tamed and really enjoyed it. The hand-drawn pictures in the book are also very readable and cool in a retro way. Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature.


> Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature.

there are thousands of excellent books for children now, some with exquisite illustration.

Here's a twitter hashtag with some good examples: https://twitter.com/hashtag/favekidsbookart?src=hash

The UK has a prize for excellent illustration - the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway.php

Here's the 2017 shortlist: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway-current-shortl...

Previous winners are listed here: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php


There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.


This may be because there is so much low quality stuff everywhere while only the good and high quality ones survived from the past (Survival of the fittest I guess). So the past looks like it was all good but the present is mostly rubbish.




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