louise on the left (coast)

I always kept my favorite books from my childhood.  Including all my original paperbacks and hardcovers featuring those illustrated by Pauline Baynes. For weblink featuring more of her book covers, click here... Pauline Baynes's illustrations were just  so wonderful and creative.  Her simple black and white images fired up the imagination and were the perfect counterpoint to all the great writing for children by C. S. Lewis and J. R. Tolkien. I saved every one of her books to read to my own children who also fell under her same creative spell. I realize that publishers have by now probably replaced most of her original work with more contemporary images, but why bother changing greatness?   Her work was astonishingly creative and bold, considering what a prudish society we live in.  Much of her imagery should have had Puritans in a tizzy, drawing all those Druid-friendly characters whisking young girls into a wooded dell in such a beguiling, appealing way -- I'd ha