Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh

Putting away the fear of childishness

Melanie McDonagh enjoys browsing Daniel Hahn’s new Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature, but wishes it had pictures

The importance of illustration: Babar et le Professeur Grifaton by Laurent de Brunhoff

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