Eulalie

Eulalie (Eulalie Banks, 1895–?),
British‐American illustrator whose work for children has spanned the entire 20th century. After moving to America from London, in 1919 she began to collaborate with Watty Piper and illustrated numerous fairy‐tale books such as Fairy Stories Children Love (1922), The Gateway to Storyland (1925), Famous Fairy Tales (1932), and Eight Fairy Tales (1934), which she edited. She also provided the drawings for Homer Mitten's The Enchanted Canyon Fairy Story (1932). Eulalie blended all her ink drawings with bright and pleasant colours and depicted simple characters that gave her work a naïve quality. Aside from illustrating books, she also painted fairy‐tale murals for libraries in California and Michigan and designed greeting cards. She is best known for the delightful pastel illustrations for The Bumper Book: A Collection of Stories and Verses for Children (1946), edited by...

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