Childhood Treasures: The Role of Illustration in Children’s Literature

Sterling Hundley Treasure Island

                                                                   Here’s the announcement for the Boston Book Festival’s forum event!

12:30PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

TRINITY FORUM, 206 CLARENDON STREET

Harvard professor and folklore expert Maria Tatar and Sterling Hundley, illustrator of The Folio Society’s new edition of Treasure Island, explore the role visual imagery plays in how we read children’s literature. How can illustrations help us navigate the pleasures and perils of literary worlds? What challenges do artists face in reinventing classic stories, and how do they animate other worlds, unsettling readers and surprising them? Johanna Geary, managing editor at The Folio Society, will moderate this discussion. Sponsored by The Folio Society.

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