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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Neither am I, and in fact I didn't read any of those books until I was married. (Sally ordered me to do it with respect to Winne the Pooh and Peter Rabbit.) But I can't visualize any of them without their original illustrations.
In return I obliged her to listen to À la recherche du temps perdu in translation. It took us two winters to finish.
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I would not disagree that we all know many books which have illustrations that are integral. I mean, can anyone alive imagine Winnie-the-pooh, without the original illos? Or the first Peter Rabbit illos? (Okay, for the latter there is probably a huge population which has no idea what those look like. It's solely we old farts that remember.) Or the Velveteen Rabbit?
But my point is, by and large, MOST of us
don't read those as adults, other than to children. That's not the same thing as, say, reading Harry Potter, for which none of us needed the chapter-head illos--because we're adult readers, with our own formed mental associations and creativity, etc.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are the Narnia books with the illustrations as well as the OZ books with the illustrations. You can get the OZ eBooks here on MR created and posted by GrannyGrump.
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Yes, indeedy. Lovely work by GG.
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