Focuses on illustration and contains essays on why and how books were
chosen, a list of all books in the three volumes, and predictions for
future classics. Picture books covered include titles by Edward
Ardizzone, L. Leslie Brooke, Virginia Lee Burton, Randolph Caldecott,
Walter Crane, Wanda GD'ag, Kate Greenaway, Ezra Jack Keats, Robert
Lawson, Leo Lionni, Robert McCloskey, Beatrix Potter, McCloskey Rackham,
Maurice Sendak, and Dr. Seuss.