Characters from children’s books often take on legendary status in the popular imagination. Peter Pan inspired his own pathological syndrome (and maybe R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly”); Willy Wonka led to a real-world candy company; and hundreds of wannabe Hobbits live in commercially manufactured Hobbit holes in Shire-like lands.
“Picture This,” a new exhibition at the British Library, presents a canon of illustrations from famous storybooks, from Paddington Bear to The Borrowers to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory……read more
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