Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch some leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage, and talk about books with The Times’s ...

Titled Becoming: 130 Years of Indian Children's Book Illustration, the exhibition curated ... they contradict, they play,” Jha says. This ethos governs the show’s structure: instead of ...

An illustration from “The Monster Den, or Look What Happened at My House — and to It,” by John Ciardi, which the Book Review chose as one of the best illustrated children’s books in 1966.

Timelessness of illustrations . India’s tryst with children’s literature dates back to the late 1800s, courtesy of a Bengali magazine named Sandesh.