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These delicately colored prints, with their atmosphere of English
country life, well accord with the old cumulative verses which they
accompany. Mr. Caldecott has charmingly illustrated this and the (p. 24)
following picture-books. Some of the illustrations in each book are in
color and some in black and white.
The Caldecott toy-books,
They fix for all time
The favorite heroes
Of nursery rhyme.
The Caldecott toy-books--
We never shall find
A gracefuller pencil,
A merrier mind!
L.
CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (Illustrator).
A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go.
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The drawings portray Mr. Frog, Mr. Rat, and the tragic ending to the
festivities at Mousey's Hall.
Caldecott was a fine literary artist, who was able to express
himself with rare facility in pictures in place of words, so that
his comments upon a simple text reveal endless subtleties of
thought.... You have but to turn to any of his toy-books to see
that at times each word, almost each syllable, inspired its own
picture.... He studied his subject as no one else ever studied
it.... Then he portrayed it simply and with inimitable vigor,
with a fine economy of line and colour; when colour is added, it
is mainly as a gay convention, and not closely imitative of
nature.
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