A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes

This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book,A Apple Pie,along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes. Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocencean escape from the squalor of Victorian citiesthat is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.

Kate Greenaway (1846—1901) was an English illustrator and watercolorist famous for her fanciful, humorous drawings of child life.