Illustrated Poetry

Here you’ll find reviews of my favourite illustrated poetry compilations or rhyming stories.

“If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer,
If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”

(Shell Silverstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”)

"Struwwelpeter": fusion of humour and horror in the world's most successful cautionary tales Illustrated Poetry Illustrated Poetry

“Struwwelpeter”: fusion of humour and horror in the world’s most successful cautionary tales

Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Struwwelpeter” (1845) was to Germans what Carroll’s “Alice in wonderland” was to British or Lindgren’s “Pippi Longstocking” has become to Swedish a hundred years later – a national …

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"The Night before Christmas": Robert Ingpens' Santa from my childhood's imagination Illustrated Poetry Illustrated Poetry

“The Night before Christmas”: Robert Ingpens’ Santa from my childhood’s imagination

This classic poem by the American professor of literature and theology Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) and the Australian master of illustration Robert Ingpen (born 1936) was first titled “A Visit …

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