Word: caldecott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Commander John Caldecott Littler sat in a naval courtroom at Halifax, an empty scabbard at his side, his sword lying crosswise on a table before the president of the court. As a result of last summer's collision between his destroyer Micmac and the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28), half a dozen charges had been brought against him. The most serious: he had hazarded his ship...
...illustrations show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
Kate Greenaway owes much of her fame to Color-Printer Edmund Evans, who discovered and sponsored her, and engraved her drawings. Another of Evans' discoveries was Randolph Caldecott, born in 1846, whose centenary was also celebrated last week. Kate Greenaway envied Caldecott's wit. Most illustrators were more inclined to envy Caldecott's sure sense of movement, which set a new standard for fast action on paper. His books (John Gilpin's Ride, Three Jovial Huntsmen, etc.) were as boyish and gay as Greenaway's were girlish and sweet...