This semester I've shared some of the books from my childhood that used illustrations in them that I have always really liked. This time I'm pulling from a really long time ago, the copyright is 1969. This issue was illustrated by Alex A. Blum. Please note the price was only $0.25 and you can also see my writing as a little kid. Haha!
I thought Ophelia was the most beautiful girl ever and I was so upset when she died in the story. Anyway, I digress... For the time in which this was printed, it was done really well. Note the full color not only on the cover, but the interior pages as well.
The image at right is of Ophelia falling into the water, to her death. As you can see, the edge of the page is even missing from my being distraught and rereading this section so many times. Note the movement that the illustrator give the water with it's swirls and waves around her. Then the use of light colors and making the water look transparent as she sinks.
The last two images I found online. They are in a bit better shape than my "well used" copy and mine is becoming a bit brittle with age so I didn't want to bend it to scan.
The third and fourth ones also show the ghost of the king. See how the illustrator shaded him to make him look "transparent". The third one took up one page while the fourth one was a two page spread.
I think this series was really well done. In fact, I used to have others in the series but don't really know what happened to them over the years. At the time that this one was printed, there were 169 different ones to choose from.
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