Pauline baynes

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I haven't been writing a lot lately because it's the end of the semester, which is a time of frantic grading for me. But somehow I have still managed to get in a lot of reading. This week I came across an essay that a student wrote on C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew, and I realized that I couldn't remember the plot of that book at all; it had been such a long time since I'd read it. Obviously it was my duty to stop grading and reread The Magician's Nephew immediately. It's work-related…

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Page 14 of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 7th edition, 1973. Illustration by Pauline Baynes. For the most part, the illustrations in this edition are black and white. But a few use a second color, as in this one of Tom Bombadil meeting Goldberry.

My gateway into fantasy literature was not, as seems standard for my generation, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings but rather C.S. Le...

Welcome to Part II of “God in Narnia,” The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe rendition! If you missed the first part of “ Lion ,” then you can catch it here . And if you missed Part I , II , or III of The Magician’s Nephew , you can catch those as well. Enjoy!

Illustration by Pauline Baynes for C. S. Lewis' classics The Chronicles of Narnia. Illustration copyright © 1950, 1998 by C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd.

Pauline Baynes. Fairy Tales from the British Isles. 1960.