/lit/ - Literature

>mentally disabled?
>it's my extroverted personality

>>22456227
I read this recently. Made me cry.

>>22456227
I still don't get it bros

>>22456756
I thought it was genuinely creepy.

Read those stories of the big wolf and the little wolf to my son the other day and am not ashamed to admit that I had a little tear in my eye.

>>22456227
Children's books are for kids, you privileged white male.

>>22456227
Everyone should read David Macaulays books

Reading classic children's books is bad. It promotes outdated patriarchy and heteronormative values! Everyone should be trying to become a woman instead. Pic related is my transitioning.

>>22456906
This whole overblown pro/contra tansgenderism thing that has swept over the whole world from the US is just so tiresome. I'd rather talk about children's books with pictures.

>>22456934
Me too.

what should i get my 7 month old nephew bros?

>>22458112
The Phantom Tollbooth

Three strikes and you're out, /lit/: Who was in the wrong?

>>22458112
Play him the magic flute

>>22456906
spot the burger

The two books I'm reading at the moment are The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and Shakespeare has plays that aren't as good as Wind in the Willows.

>>22456756
>Oh please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!
That sums it all up.

>>22456227
Gonna read this today, heard it's good

>>22458801
Whoever made the decision to not only put that picture, we all know it, on the back but also to make it fill the entire cover.

>>22456934
>I'd rather talk about children's books with pictures.

Well said sir. Of course, you have to get the original editions, or at least a faithful reprinting.

Illustrations in old books for children: GREAT
llustrations in new books for children: RUBBISH

This is now a GREAT OLD PICTURES OF CHARACTERS IN BOOKS thread.

We'll kick off with a nice simple one. One reason it's good is that Tove Jansson drew the pictures herself. (I think she might have been primarily an artist, rather than an author. In fact, she might have drawn the Moomins first and only written the books to fit the pictures.)

One advantage of pictures: like music, they don't have to be translated.

>>22458985
Next up: the single greatest moment in Western literature.

Notice how the picture captures the NIETZSCHEAN SPIRIT of Toad. Does he slow down when the people who actually own the car tell him to? He does not.

"Shatter, shatter the old law-tables!"

>>22458995
Lewis Carroll didn't illustrate Alice In Wonderland himself. It was a guy called Tenniel. But LC did work very closely with him, and kept asking him to change the pictures until they were exactly how Carroll imagined the characters.

So if you get a book with different pictures, you're literally digging up Lewis Carroll's corpse and raping it.

(Alice is the one holding the flamingo, btw.)

>>22459015
So far I can only agree with you. What about Shepards drawings of Pooh?

>>22459015
Tove Jansson may or may not have been "artist first, writer second", but Mervyn Peake definitely was. So why would you get a Gormenghast without his illustrations? Answer: you wouldn't.

This is exactly Steerpike.

>>22459027
>What about Shepard's drawings of Pooh?

Yes, they're on the list, for sure. Every single character is great (think of the way Eeyore's back legs bend out sideways, for example).

>>22459030
Fortunately in Down With Skool!, the words and pictures are so closely linked they can't really have one without the other. (Willans & Searle are credited as co-authors.)

I only found out about the Missing piece books through some Zizek lecture. It seems like a nice story, is it actually popular with kids in the US?

This book is absolute kino btw

>>22459418
Never heard of it. What's it about?

>>22456934
Nah it'll spiral into WW3 and we're all going to die

>>22459446
It’s about a lemur who gets exiled from his tribe and goes on an adventure with his horse friend across a world ruled by sentient animals, primarily monkeys, with cultures that somewhat mirror ancient Mesopotamia and the like. The entire book is full of some of the most beautiful 2-page spreads ever and features basically every animal to ever exist (prehistoric animals too).

>>22459446
Here’s an example of one of the pages. I just don’t see this book talked about ever.

>>22459609
I guess I'll give it a try, my kid might like it

>>22458985
Nice. Been quite a while since I read this... Glad to have found a 1st edition copy recently

>>22456821
I read his Castle, Cathedral, and City books so many times I still have their images burned into my mind. Goddamn what an illustrator.

>>22459609
that sounds kino as fuck, will buy and read to my nieces.

>>22459101
Quentin Blake for Roald Dahl books is a timeless treat.

the loest quality bait of all time

do not get hooked friends he is a charlatan

>>22458112
Box set of something. The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark set (with the original illustrations) is a great one because even if he turns his nose up at getting books he'll love the illustrations.

This is great, anons. A real treat.

Another illustrator who really helped define a character is Sidney Paget (for Sherlock Holmes).

Fun fact: SP had a brother called Walter, also an illustrator. The Strand magazine originally intended to offer him the job, but they didn't know his first name, so they just put "Mr Paget" on the letter. Sidney got it, and drew a bunch of stuff, and impressed them so they stuck with him.

>>22456227
He's literally me bros

>>22456821
Built for BBC

>>22458112
Little Black Sambo. Get him started early.

>>22462208
Original illustrations aren't *always* the best. For Peter Pan I prefer Richard Kennedy in the 1960s Penguin edition.

>>22462699
Just out of curiosity: is this your hobby or is your interest somehow work related?

Children's books are great for language learners. The little prince is my first stop whenever I'm learning a new language.

>>22462715
Hobby if anything, but not even that, really. I just like good pictures in books.

>>22458901
The first ones a bit dull at times and feels like it is written for very young children, but after that they start to become super wonderful books. She wrote a lot of her real life into them. The first one is still good tho. Beautiful illustrations.

>>22458906
Kek, what the fuck were they thinking?