#polish illustrators

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Barbara Dutkowska illustration for "Under the Burdock inn", published in Poland in 1987.

(book from my private collection)

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JAN PIENKOWSKI (1936-Died February 19th 2022,at 85,Dementia). Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books.He is best known for his Meg & Mog series of children’s books,alonghside writer Helen Nicoll. He has also designed for the theatre. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pie%C5%84kowski

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It’s true: we’ve discovered yet another version of Heinrich Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter, this one in Polish, hiding in our Edith Wetmore Collection of Children’s Books.

Złota różdżka was published in Warsaw around 1933; it contains a translation of Hoffmann’s original text, with illustrations by Bohdan Bartłomiej Nowakowski, a prolific Polish illustrator and cartoonist.

Nowakowski’s children are quite impressively, gruesomely bad. Look at the determined scowl on this little stomper!

This book contains all your Struwwelpeter favorites, like the fast-withering Augustus Who Wouldn’t Eat Any Soup (below left) and the tragic Pauline Who Played With Matches and her oddly flame-resistant shoes (below right).

The last page of Złota różdżka features a highly seasonally-appropriate illustration of the respective wintery fates of good and bad children everywhere. May we suggest sharing it with the bad children in your life?

  Bad Children of History #30: Once More, With Feeling It's true: we've discovered yet another version of Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter, this one in Polish, hiding in our Edith Wetmore Collection of Children's Books.